Analysis of the residue-residue coevolution network and the functionally important residues in proteins

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It is a common belief that some residues of a protein are more important than others. In some cases, point mutations of some residues make butterfly effect on the protein structure and function, but in other cases they do not. In addition, the residues important for the protein function tend to be not only conserved but also coevolved with other interacting residues in a protein. Motivated by these observations, the authors propose that there is a network composed of the residues, the residue-residue coevolution network (RRCN), where nodes are residues and links are set when the coevolutionary interaction strengths between residues are sufficiently large. The authors build the RRCN for the 44 diverse protein families. The interaction strengths are calculated by using McBASC algorithm. After constructing the RRCN, the authors identify residues that have high degree of connectivity (hub nodes), and residues that play a central role in network flow of information (C-I nodes). The authors show that these residues are likely to be functionally important residues. Moreover, the C-I nodes appear to be more relevant to the function than the hub nodes. Unlike other similar methods, the method described in this study is solely based on sequences. Therefore, the method can be applied to the function annotation of a wider range of proteins.
Publisher
WILEY-LISS
Issue Date
2008-08
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; CORRELATED MUTATIONS; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ACTIVE-SITE; INFORMATION; PREDICTION; STABILITY; COMMUNICATION; DETERMINANTS; DATABASES

Citation

PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS, v.72, no.3, pp.863 - 872

ISSN
0887-3585
DOI
10.1002/prot.21972
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/91270
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BiS-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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