標題: | Incremental Mountain Clustering Method to Find Building Blocks for Constructing Structures of Proteins |
作者: | Lin, Ken-Li Lin, Chin-Teng Pal, Nikhil R. 電控工程研究所 Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering |
關鍵字: | Building blocks;incremental structural mountain clustering;protein structure;structural mountain clustering |
公開日期: | 1-十二月-2010 |
摘要: | In this paper we propose an algorithm named Incremental Structural Mountain Clustering Method (ISMCM) with a view to finding a library of building blocks for reconstruction of 3-D structures of proteins/peptides. The building blocks are short structural motifs that are identified based on an estimate of local "density" of 3-D fragments computed using a measure of structural similarity. The structural similarity is computed after the best-molecular-fit alignment of pairs of fragments. The algorithm is tested on two well known benchmark data sets. Following the protocols used by other researchers, for the first data set we reconstruct a set of 71 test peptides (up to first 60 residues) whereas for the second data set we reconstruct all 143 test peptides. The ISMCM algorithm is found to successfully reconstruct the test peptides in terms of both global-fit root-mean-square (RMS) error and local-fit RMS error. The low values of local-fit RMS errors suggest that these building blocks extracted by ISMCM are good quantizers, which can represent nearby fragments quite accurately. To further assess the quality of building blocks we use two alternative graphical ways. We also use Shannon's entropy to show the structural similarity of the clusters found by our algorithm. This is important as building blocks that represent clusters with structurally similar fragments will be very effective in reconstruction. The entropic analysis reveals a very interesting fact that the secondary structure of the central residue of the fragments in a cluster is most strongly conserved (minimum entropy) over the cluster, which might be an indicator that central residue of the structural motif plays a dominant role in local folding. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNB.2010.2095467 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/26268 |
ISSN: | 1536-1241 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TNB.2010.2095467 |
期刊: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 4 |
起始頁: | 278 |
結束頁: | 288 |
顯示於類別: | 期刊論文 |