MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins

Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) play important roles in cells, ranging from transport processes and cell adhesion to communication. Many of these functions are mediated by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), flexible protein segments without a well-defined structure. Although a variety of predict...

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Autores principales: Laszlo Dobson, Gábor E. Tusnády
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b7ed5da9901a42c4a36f8f95b406679a2021-11-25T17:54:54ZMemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins10.3390/ijms2222122701422-00671661-6596https://doaj.org/article/b7ed5da9901a42c4a36f8f95b406679a2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/22/12270https://doaj.org/toc/1661-6596https://doaj.org/toc/1422-0067Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) play important roles in cells, ranging from transport processes and cell adhesion to communication. Many of these functions are mediated by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), flexible protein segments without a well-defined structure. Although a variety of prediction methods are available for predicting IDRs, their accuracy is very limited on TMPs due to their special physico-chemical properties. We prepared a dataset containing membrane proteins exclusively, using X-ray crystallography data. MemDis is a novel prediction method, utilizing convolutional neural network and long short-term memory networks for predicting disordered regions in TMPs. In addition to attributes commonly used in IDR predictors, we defined several TMP specific features to enhance the accuracy of our method further. MemDis achieved the highest prediction accuracy on TMP-specific dataset among other popular IDR prediction methods.Laszlo DobsonGábor E. TusnádyMDPI AGarticletransmembrane proteinsintrinsically disordered proteinsdeep learningconvolutional neural networkbidirectional long-short term memoryBiology (General)QH301-705.5ChemistryQD1-999ENInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 22, Iss 12270, p 12270 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic transmembrane proteins
intrinsically disordered proteins
deep learning
convolutional neural network
bidirectional long-short term memory
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Chemistry
QD1-999
spellingShingle transmembrane proteins
intrinsically disordered proteins
deep learning
convolutional neural network
bidirectional long-short term memory
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Chemistry
QD1-999
Laszlo Dobson
Gábor E. Tusnády
MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
description Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) play important roles in cells, ranging from transport processes and cell adhesion to communication. Many of these functions are mediated by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), flexible protein segments without a well-defined structure. Although a variety of prediction methods are available for predicting IDRs, their accuracy is very limited on TMPs due to their special physico-chemical properties. We prepared a dataset containing membrane proteins exclusively, using X-ray crystallography data. MemDis is a novel prediction method, utilizing convolutional neural network and long short-term memory networks for predicting disordered regions in TMPs. In addition to attributes commonly used in IDR predictors, we defined several TMP specific features to enhance the accuracy of our method further. MemDis achieved the highest prediction accuracy on TMP-specific dataset among other popular IDR prediction methods.
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author Laszlo Dobson
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title MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
title_short MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
title_full MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
title_fullStr MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
title_full_unstemmed MemDis: Predicting Disordered Regions in Transmembrane Proteins
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