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ArticleScientific reports2017

Exploring the Sequence-based Prediction of Folding Initiation Sites in Proteins.

Daniele Raimondi, Gabriele Orlando, Rita Pancsa, Taushif Khan, Wim F Vranken

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Daniele RaimondiInteruniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, Triomflaan, BC building, 6th floor, CP 263, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
Gabriele OrlandoInteruniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, Triomflaan, BC building, 6th floor, CP 263, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
Rita PancsaMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
Taushif KhanInteruniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, Triomflaan, BC building, 6th floor, CP 263, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
Wim F VrankenInteruniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, Triomflaan, BC building, 6th floor, CP 263, 1050, Brussels, Belgium. wvranken@vub.ac.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-4324

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105185859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein folding is a complex process that can lead to disease when it fails. Especially poorly understood are the very early stages of protein folding, which are likely defined by intrinsic local interactions between amino acids close to each other in the protein sequence. We here present EFoldMine, a method that predicts, from the primary amino acid sequence of a protein, which amino acids are likely involved in early folding events. The method is based on early folding data from hydrogen deuterium exchange (HDX) data from NMR pulsed labelling experiments, and uses backbone and sidechain dynamics as well as secondary structure propensities as features. The EFoldMine predictions give insights into the folding process, as illustrated by a qualitative comparison with independent experimental observations. Furthermore, on a quantitative proteome scale, the predicted early folding residues tend to become the residues that interact the most in the folded structure, and they are often residues that display evolutionary covariation. The connection of the EFoldMine predictions with both folding pathway data and the folded protein structure suggests that the initial statistical behavior of the protein chain with respect to local structure formation has a lasting effect on its subsequent states.

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Amino Acid SequenceProtein FoldingIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMass SpectrometryMechanical PhenomenaModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteinsReproducibility of ResultsROC CurveIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProteins

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PMID28821744
PMCPMC5562875

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