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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Improving the Annotations of JCVI-Syn3a Proteins.

Mesih Kilinc, Kejue Jia, Robert L Jernigan

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Mesih KilincBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
Kejue JiaMolecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Robert L JerniganBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. jernigan@iastate.edu.

Funding

Novel Use of Genome Information to Understand MutationsR01HG012117 · NHGRI · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JERNIGAN, ROBERT L, KLOCZKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
Protein Sequence MatchingR01GM127701 · NIGMS · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JERNIGAN, ROBERT L, KLOCZKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
DOE DE-SC0022090NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012117NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127701
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The JCVI-Syn3 organism is a minimal organism derived from Mycoplasma mycoides capri, which is capable of self-replication. While the ancestor has 863 genes, the synthetic progeny has only 473, with 434 of these coding for proteins. Despite initial efforts to understand all functions of the organism, a significant number of these protein-coding genes still have unknown functions, and subsequent studies have been only partially successful in elucidating their roles. In this study, we employ our innovative method PROST to identify homologs and better understand these previously unidentified genes. PROST employs protein language embeddings and enables the identification of remote homologs with as low as 16% sequence identity. PROST successfully finds functionally annotated homologs for 93% of the minimal genome with a high level of accuracy, both confirming previously identified functions, as well as proposing new functions for others. The results of our study can be accessed at https://bit.ly/prost-syn3a .

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Bacterial ProteinsMolecular Sequence AnnotationComputational BiologyGenome, BacterialMycoplasma mycoidesSoftwareBacterial ProteinsAlphafold2FATCATFunctional annotationJCVI-Syn3 organismMinimal organismPROST

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