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Prediction of protein-protein interaction sites in heterocomplexes with neural networks

European Journal of Biochemistry, ISSN: 0014-2956, Vol: 269, Issue: 5, Page: 1356-1361
2002
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In this paper we address the problem of extracting features relevant for predicting protein-protein interaction sites from the three-dimensional structures of protein complexes. Our approach is based on information about evolutionary conservation and surface disposition. We implement a neural network based system, which uses a cross validation procedure and allows the correct detection of 73% of the residues involved in protein interactions in a selected database comprising 226 heterodimers. Our analysis confirms that the chemico-physical properties of interacting surfaces are difficult to distinguish from those of the whole protein surface. However neural networks trained with a reduced representation of the interacting patch and sequence profile are sufficient to generalize over the different features of the contact patches and to predict whether a residue in the protein surface is or is not in contact. By usinga blind test, we report the prediction of the surface interacting sites of three structural components of the Dnak molecular chaperone system, and find close agreement with previously published experimental results. We propose that the predictor can significantly complement results from structural and functional proteomics.

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