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Graph-theoretical prediction of biological modules in quaternary structures of large protein complexes.
Bioinformatics 2024 March 7
MOTIVATION: The functional complexity of biochemical processes is strongly related to the interplay of proteins and their assembly into protein complexes. In recent years, the discovery and characterization of protein complexes have substantially progressed through advances in cryo-electron microscopy, proteomics, and computational structure prediction. This development results in a strong need for computational approaches to analyse the data of large protein complexes for structural and functional characterization. Here, we aim to provide a suitable approach, which processes the growing number of large protein complexes, to obtain biologically meaningful information on the hierarchical organization of the structures of protein complexes.
METHODS: We modelled the quaternary structure of protein complexes as undirected, labelled graphs called complex graphs. In complex graphs, the vertices represent protein chains and the edges spatial chain-chain contacts. We hypothesized that clusters based on the complex graph correspond to functional biological modules. To compute the clusters, we applied the Leiden clustering algorithm.
RESULTS: To evaluate our approach, we chose the human respiratory complex I, which has been extensively investigated and exhibits a known biological module structure experimentally validated. Additionally, we characterised a eukaryotic group II chaperonin TRiC/CCT and the head of the bacteriophage Φ29. The analysis of the protein complexes correlated with experimental findings and indicated known functional, biological modules.
CONCLUSION: Using our approach, enables not only to predict functional, biological modules in large protein complexes but also to investigate the flexibility of specific regions. The predicted modules can aid in the planning and analysis of experiments.
AVAILABILITY: Jupyter notebooks to reproduce the examples are available on our public GitHub repository https://github.com/MolBIFFM/PTGLtools/tree/main/PTGLmodulePrediction.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
METHODS: We modelled the quaternary structure of protein complexes as undirected, labelled graphs called complex graphs. In complex graphs, the vertices represent protein chains and the edges spatial chain-chain contacts. We hypothesized that clusters based on the complex graph correspond to functional biological modules. To compute the clusters, we applied the Leiden clustering algorithm.
RESULTS: To evaluate our approach, we chose the human respiratory complex I, which has been extensively investigated and exhibits a known biological module structure experimentally validated. Additionally, we characterised a eukaryotic group II chaperonin TRiC/CCT and the head of the bacteriophage Φ29. The analysis of the protein complexes correlated with experimental findings and indicated known functional, biological modules.
CONCLUSION: Using our approach, enables not only to predict functional, biological modules in large protein complexes but also to investigate the flexibility of specific regions. The predicted modules can aid in the planning and analysis of experiments.
AVAILABILITY: Jupyter notebooks to reproduce the examples are available on our public GitHub repository https://github.com/MolBIFFM/PTGLtools/tree/main/PTGLmodulePrediction.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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