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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2019

Residue Adjacency Matrix Based Feature Engineering for Predicting Cysteine Reactivity in Proteins.

Norman John Mapes, Christopher Rodriguez, Pradeep Chowriappa, Sumeet Dua

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Norman John MapesProgram of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, 305 Wisteria St., Ruston, LA 71272, United States.
Christopher RodriguezProgram of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, 305 Wisteria St., Ruston, LA 71272, United States.
Pradeep ChowriappaProgram of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, 305 Wisteria St., Ruston, LA 71272, United States.
Sumeet DuaProgram of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, 305 Wisteria St., Ruston, LA 71272, United States.
Louisiana Tech University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Free radicals that form from reactive species of nitrogen and oxygen can react dangerously with cellular components and are involved with the pathogenesis of diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's, and heart disease. Cysteine amino acids, due to their reactive nature, are prone to oxidation by these free radicals. Determining which cysteines oxidize within proteins is crucial to our understanding of these chronic diseases. Wet lab techniques, like differential alkylation, to determine which cysteines oxidize are often expensive and time-consuming. We utilize machine learning as a fast and inexpensive approach to identifying cysteines with oxidative capabilities. We created the original features RAMmod and RAMseq for use in classification. We also incorporated well-known features such as PROPKA, SASA, PSS, and PSSM. Our algorithm requires only the protein sequence to operate; however, we do use template matching by MODELLER to acquire 3D coordinates for additional feature extraction. There was a mean improvement of RAM over N6C by 22.04% MCC. It was statistically significant with a

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Cysteine reactivityFree radicalsOxidative stressPosition specific scoring matrixPSSMRAM residue adjacency matrixResponse pathways

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PMID30671196
PMCPMC6327741
OpenAlexW2906502391

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