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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011

Direct inference of protein-DNA interactions using compressed sensing methods.

Mohammed AlQuraishi, Harley H McAdams

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Computational methodology for ChIP-seq analysis.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2013
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  10. Application of compressed sensing to the simulation of atomic systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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  13. (Compressed) sensing and sensibility.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammed AlQuraishiDepartment of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Harley H McAdams
Stanford University · US

Funding

INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT IN GENOME SCIENCET32HG000044 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL P. SNYDER · 1995 to 2026
$32.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000044NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG00044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compressed sensing has revolutionized signal acquisition, by enabling complex signals to be measured with remarkable fidelity using a small number of so-called incoherent sensors. We show that molecular interactions, e.g., protein-DNA interactions, can be analyzed in a directly analogous manner and with similarly remarkable results. Specifically, mesoscopic molecular interactions act as incoherent sensors that measure the energies of microscopic interactions between atoms. We combine concepts from compressed sensing and statistical mechanics to determine the interatomic interaction energies of a molecular system exclusively from experimental measurements, resulting in a "de novo" energy potential. In contrast, conventional methods for estimating energy potentials are based on theoretical models premised on a priori assumptions and extensive domain knowledge. We determine the de novo energy potential for pairwise interactions between protein and DNA atoms from (i) experimental measurements of the binding affinity of protein-DNA complexes and (ii) crystal structures of the complexes. We show that the de novo energy potential can be used to predict the binding specificity of proteins to DNA with approximately 90% accuracy, compared to approximately 60% for the best performing alternative computational methods applied to this fundamental problem. This de novo potential method is directly extendable to other biomolecule interaction domains (enzymes and signaling molecule interactions) and to other classes of molecular interactions.

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Computer SimulationModels, ChemicalCrystallography, X-RayDNADNA-Binding ProteinsProtein Structure, TertiaryThermodynamicsDNADNA-Binding Proteins

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PMID21825146
PMCPMC3169146
OpenAlexW2025241776

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