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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

Insights on protein thermal stability: a graph representation of molecular interactions.

Mattia Miotto, Pier Paolo Olimpieri, Lorenzo Di Rienzo, Francesco Ambrosetti, Pietro Corsi, Rosalba Lepore, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Edoardo Milanetti

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Mattia MiottoDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
Pier Paolo OlimpieriDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
Lorenzo Di RienzoDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
Francesco AmbrosettiDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
Pietro CorsiDepartment of Science, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", via della Vasca Navale 84, Rome, Italy.
Rosalba LeporeBiozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Gian Gaetano TartagliaCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader St. 88, Barcelona, Spain.
Edoardo MilanettiDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESIstituto di Nanotecnologia · ITRoma Tre University · ITUniversity of Basel · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationUnderstanding the molecular mechanisms of thermal stability is a challenge in protein biology. Indeed, knowing the temperature at which proteins are stable has important theoretical implications, which are intimately linked with properties of the native fold, and a wide range of potential applications from drug design to the optimization of enzyme activity.

resultsHere, we present a novel graph-theoretical framework to assess thermal stability based on the structure without any a priori information. In this approach we describe proteins as energy-weighted graphs and compare them using ensembles of interaction networks. Investigating the position of specific interactions within the 3D native structure, we developed a parameter-free network descriptor that permits to distinguish thermostable and mesostable proteins with an accuracy of 76% and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 78%. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Code is available upon request to edoardo.milanetti@uniroma1.it. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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