β-sheet Topology Prediction with High Precision and Recall for β and Mixed α/β Proteins

Ashwin Subramani and Christodoulos A Floudas

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: The prediction of the correct -sheet topology for pure and mixed proteins is a critical intermediate step toward the three dimensional protein structure prediction. The predicted beta sheet topology provides distance constraints between sequentially separated residues, which reduces the three dimensional search space for a protein structure prediction algorithm. Here, we present a novel mixed integer linear optimization based framework for the prediction of -sheet topology in and mixed proteins. The objective is to maximize the total strand-to-strand contact potential of the protein. A large number of physical constraints are applied to provide biologically meaningful topology results. The formulation permits the creation of a rank-ordered list of preferred -sheet arrangements. Finally, the generated topologies are re-ranked using a fully atomistic approach involving torsion angle dynamics and clustering. For a large, non-redundant data set of 2102 and mixed proteins with at least 3 strands taken from the PDB, the proposed approach provides the top 5 solutions with average precision and recall greater than 78%. Consistent results are obtained in the -sheet topology prediction for blind targets provided during the CASP8 and CASP9 experiments, as well as for actual and predicted secondary structures. The -sheet topology prediction algorithm, BeST, is available to the scientific community at http://selene.princeton.edu/BeST/.

Date: 2012
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