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ArticleEuropean biophysics journal : EBJ2021

Evaluation of protein secondary structure from FTIR spectra improved after partial deuteration.

Joëlle De Meutter, Erik Goormaghtigh

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Article in European biophysics journal : EBJ, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joëlle De MeutterCenter for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Campus Plaine CP206/02, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B1050, Brussels, Belgium.
Erik GoormaghtighCenter for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Campus Plaine CP206/02, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B1050, Brussels, Belgium. egoor@ulb.ac.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2071-2262
Université Libre de Bruxelles · BE

Funding

Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS Grant n°O001518F (EOS-convention # 30467715)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

FTIR spectroscopy has become a major tool to determine protein secondary structure. One of the identified obstacle for reaching better predictions is the strong overlap of bands assigned to different secondary structures. Yet, while for instance disordered structures and α-helical structures absorb almost at the same wavenumber, the absorbance bands are differentially shifted upon deuteration, in part because exchange is much faster for disordered structures. We recorded the FTIR spectra of 85 proteins at different stages of hydrogen/deuterium exchange process using protein microarrays and infrared imaging for high throughput measurements. Several methods were used to relate spectral shape to secondary structure content. While in absolute terms, β-sheet is always better predicted than α-helix content, results consistently indicate an improvement of secondary structure predictions essentially for the α-helix and the category called "Others" (grouping random, turns, bends, etc.) after 15 min of exchange. On the contrary, the β-sheet fraction is better predicted in non-deuterated conditions. Using partial least square regression, the error of prediction for the α-helix content is reduced after 15-min deuteration. Further deuteration degrades the prediction. Error on the prediction for the "Others" structures also decreases after 15-min deuteration. Cross-validation or a single 25-protein test set result in the same overall conclusions.

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Protein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein Conformation, beta-StrandProteinsSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredProteinsFTIR spectroscopyHydrogen deuterium exchangeProtein microarraysProtein spectroscopySecondary structure

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PMID33534058
PMCPMC8189984
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