基于小波分析法的蛋白质结构研究

用小波的方法预测了一个已知结构蛋白质的二级结构，并把它同互连网蛋白质结构预测服务及其他结构预测软件得到的二级结构进行比较。结果表明：该方法可以较好地确定蛋白质的二级结构且不必进行同源蛋白质序列的联配。在预测未知结构的蛋白质序列方面，该方法与其他方法相比，预测结果并无显著差异，这说明小波分析法可以用于蛋白质结构研究，若与其他方法结合用于结构预测,将会起到更好的作用。     

蛋白质二级结构预测的结构表达方法研究

蛋白质二级结构预测时,描述窗口内氨基酸残基序列的各种物理化学和分子结构参数的数量非常大,而且不能很好地直接体现氨基酸的连接顺序,这样就造成二级结构预测工作既费时效果又低下,因此,对这些数据预处理是非常必要的.研究发现,这些初始数据对应的变换矩阵的本征值谱与氨基酸残基序列情况无关,只与氨基酸的类别、数量性质有关,而其本征函数数据能够直接反映氨基酸残基的序列情况,利用有显著大小的本征值对应的本征函数作为描述参数,在进行蛋白质二级结构预测时,不但能够显著减少描述参数的个数,而且它体现了氨基酸顺序的变化,这将有效提高蛋白质二级结构预测研究效果.     

Solution structure of the major binding protein for the immunosuppressant FK506

The major FK506 binding protein (FKBP, relative molecular mass approximately 11,800; Mr 11.8K) and cyclophilin (Mr approximately 17K) belong to a class of proteins termed immunophilins. Although unrelated at the amino-acid sequence level, they both possess peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activities which are inhibited by immunosuppressants that block signal transduction pathways leading to T-lymphocyte activation. FK506 and rapamycin strongly inhibit the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity of FKBP, whereas cyclosporin A inhibits that of cyclophilin. The significance of this enzyme activity and the role of the immunophilins in immunoregulation is unknown. To understand better the function of the immunophilins and their interaction with inhibitors, we are investigating the solution structures of FKBP and FKBP-inhibitor complexes by multidimensional NMR methods. Here we report the solution conformation of FKBP, as generated by NMR, distance geometry and molecular dynamics methods. The regular secondary structure of FKBP is composed mainly of beta sheet (approximately 35%) with little helical structure (less than 10%). The hydrophobic core of the molecule, containing the buried side chains of six of the protein's nine aromatic amino acids, is enclosed by a five-stranded antiparallel beta sheet on one side, a loop and a short helix at residues 51-56 and 57-65, and an aperiodic loop at residues 81-95. Examination of the structure suggests a possible site of interaction with FK506.     

Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 structure determined by NMR molecular fragment searching

Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is an integral membrane protein in the mitochondrial anion carrier protein family, the members of which facilitate the transport of small molecules across the mitochondrial inner membrane. When the mitochondrial respiratory complex pumps protons from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space, it builds up an electrochemical potential. A fraction of this electrochemical potential is dissipated as heat, in a process involving leakage of protons back to the matrix. This leakage, or 'uncoupling' of the proton electrochemical potential, is mediated primarily by uncoupling proteins. However, the mechanism of UCP-mediated proton translocation across the lipid bilayer is unknown. Here we describe a solution-NMR method for structural characterization of UCP2. The method, which overcomes some of the challenges associated with membrane-protein structure determination, combines orientation restraints derived from NMR residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and semiquantitative distance restraints from paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) measurements. The local and secondary structures of the protein were determined by piecing together molecular fragments from the Protein Data Bank that best fit experimental RDCs from samples weakly aligned in a DNA nanotube liquid crystal. The RDCs also determine the relative orientation of the secondary structural segments, and the PRE restraints provide their spatial arrangement in the tertiary fold. UCP2 closely resembles the bovine ADP/ATP carrier (the only carrier protein of known structure), but the relative orientations of the helical segments are different, resulting in a wider opening on the matrix side of the inner membrane. Moreover, the nitroxide-labelled GDP binds inside the channel and seems to be closer to transmembrane helices 1-4. We believe that this biophysical approach can be applied to other membrane proteins and, in particular, to other mitochondrial carriers, not only for structure determination but also to characterize various conformational states of these proteins linked to substrate transport.     

不同折叠类型蛋白中基于密码子的二级结构偏向性分析

在传统的Chou-Fasman蛋白质二级结构预测方法的基础上引入同义密码子使用的信息,计算了200个蛋白(49种全α结构蛋白,69种全β结构蛋白,38种仅α β结构蛋白,44种α/β结构蛋白)中不同密码子对应的氨基酸形成不同二级结构(α：螺旋,β：折叠,C：卷曲)的偏向性参数．通过对这些密码子对应氨基酸二级结构偏向性的分析,得到了氨基酸二级结构偏向性分析中所忽略的同义密码子的蛋白结构信息．这些新的信息量对于指导蛋白质设计以及提高蛋白质二级结构预测的准确率有着一定的作用．     

模式识别方法预测蛋白质二级结构的研究

提出一种预测蛋白质二级结构的模式识别方法。该法首先对大量已知结构的蛋白质实验数据进行分析，找出鉴别蛋白质不同结构成分的有效信息，即设计分类器，然后实现对未知蛋白质二级结构的预测。用此方法对６４０个实验样本进行了研究，得到较高的预测精度，表明方法是有效的。还对实验结果进行了分析；讨论了有限样本对分类器性能的影响。     

改进的离散增量算法预测27类折叠子的结构类型

蛋白质二级结构预测是三级结构预测的一个非常重要的中间步骤,而折叠子识别和结构类型的准确预测则可以提高二级结构和三级结构预测的准确度.本文从蛋白质的一级序列出发,提出了一种改进的预测算法:以二肽组分、预测的二级结构信息、伪氨基酸组分和位置权重矩阵打分值等特征分别作为参数,输入离散增量算法的单分类器中,通过加权融合单分类器的计算结果,对27类折叠子的结构类型进行了预测,取得了较好的预测结果.     

蛋白质拓扑结构预测的进一步讨论

利用信息论方法，找到了与蛋白质拓扑结构相关性较好的一些二级结构参数，确定了预测蛋白质拓扑结构的最佳参数、对α类，β类，α／β类蛋白制定了简洁的预测规则；对结果进行了讨论。     

Crystal structure of a Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain.

The Src-homologous SH3 domain is a small domain present in a large number of proteins that are involved in signal transduction, such as the Src protein tyrosine kinase, or in membrane-cytoskeleton interactions, but the function of SH3 is still unknown (reviewed in refs 1-3). Here we report the three-dimensional structure at 1.8 A resolution of the SH3 domain of the cytoskeletal protein spectrin expressed in Escherichia coli. The domain is a compact beta-barrel made of five antiparallel beta-strands. The amino acids that are conserved in the SH3 sequences are located close to each other on one side of the molecule. This surface is rich in aromatic and carboxylic amino acids, and is distal to the region of the molecule where the N and C termini reside and where SH3 inserts into the alpha-spectrin chain. We suggest that a protein ligand binds to this conserved surface of SH3.     

Crystal structure of the intensely sweet protein monellin

Two unusual proteins, discovered in African berries, possess the interesting property of having a very high specificity for the sweet receptors. These proteins, monellin and thaumatin, are approximately 100,000 times sweeter than sugar on a molar basis and several thousand times sweeter on a weight basis. Neither contains carbohydrates or modified amino acids. Several interesting observations have been made about the two proteins: native conformations are important for the sweet taste, although both proteins are intensely sweet, there are no statistically significant sequence similarities between them; and despite the absence of sequence similarity, antibodies against thaumatin compete for monellin (as well as many other sweet compounds, but not for chemically modified non-sweet monellin) and vice versa. To understand the structural basis of these observations we determined the crystal structure of thaumatin, and report here the structure of monellin at 3 A resolution. Monellin consists of two peptide chains, the A chain of 44 residues and the B chain of 50 residues. We find no similarity between the backbone structure of monellin and that of thaumatin.     

百合无症病毒衣壳蛋白基因克隆和蛋白分析

根据已报道的LSV CP基因序列合成两条寡聚核苷酸引物,模板为感染LSV的百合叶片的总RNA,通过反转录-聚合酶链式反应(RT-PCR)扩增出大小为876bp的LSV CP基因,经测序后,对该基因编码区全长序列及相应的氨基酸序列用生物信息学软件系统进行序列分析及结构功能预测.结果表明:该基因由876个核苷酸组成,编码291个氨基酸;与GeneBank公布的其他LSV分离物的基因序列同源性为93.4%～99.0%,氨基酸同源性为84.8%～99.5%;它含有一个卷曲螺旋结构和多个磷酸化位点,平均疏水值为-0.432;含有Carlaviruses完整的衣壳蛋白保守结构域,二级结构以α-螺旋和无规则卷曲为主.     

基于位点特异性打分矩阵的卷积神经网络预测SARS-CoV-2核衣壳蛋白的蛋白质二级结构

新型冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)有4种关键的结构蛋白,而核衣壳蛋白就是其中的1种.本实验从公开数据库NCBI上选取的SARS-CoV-2核衣壳蛋白质序列数据,分析SARS-CoV-2核衣壳蛋白与SARS-CoV核衣壳蛋白的序列相似性,对SARS-CoV-2核衣壳蛋白的理化性质和疏水性进行分析;在此基础上提出基于位点...     

梅花鹿抗病毒蛋白的生物信息学分析

通过在线生物软件分析梅花鹿四种抗病毒蛋白A3Z2、BST-2A、BST-2B和SAMHD1蛋白的生物信息学特性。从转录组中获得四种蛋白的基因序列,应用Prot Param、Protscale、SOPMA、TMHMM、Target P、Signal P、Motif Scan、Interproscan以及BLAST等在线软件分析蛋白的理化性质、二级结构、穿膜域、结构域等等。首次获得了四种抗病毒因子的基因和蛋白序列,梅花鹿A3Z2基因编码393个氨基酸,相对分子质量为47.59 k Da,碱性,不稳定性亲水蛋白,无信号肽和跨膜结构域,胞内定位,具有糖基化和磷酸化位点,两个胞嘧啶脱氨酶结构域。梅花鹿BST-2A和2B基因编码159个氨基酸,相对分子质量为17.69 k Da和18.12 k Da,酸性,不稳定性亲水蛋白,无信号肽,BST-2A有两个跨膜结构域,BST-2B有一个跨膜结构域,膜定位,具有糖基化和磷酸化位点。梅花鹿SAMHD1基因编码613个氨基酸,相对分子质量为70.51 k Da,碱性,不稳定性亲水蛋白,无信号肽和跨膜结构域,胞内定位,具有磷酸化位点,d NTP磷酸水解酶活性结构域。梅花鹿A3Z2、BST-2A、BST-2B和SAMHD1蛋白具有潜在的抗病毒能力。     

武进港浮游微生物群落研究

通过 T-RFLP 分析和构建 16S rRNA小型基因文库相结合的方法, 研究了江苏省常州市武进港塘桥段微生物群落结构特点。T-RFLP 分析结果表明, 该群落的多样性较高,但均匀度较低。基于 Ribosomal Database Project Ⅱ的分析结果表明, 该处水样的浮游微生物群落种类较多, 还含有尚未分出门的微生物种群, 而变形菌门为最优势的类群。通过与 GenBank 中已知序列对比(BLAST)发现, 具有较高相似性的克隆数较多, 但也存在很多未知种类的新细菌。此外,还探讨了一些已知属的微生物的环境意义。     

Mimicry of ice structure by surface hydroxyls and water of a beta-helix antifreeze protein

Insect antifreeze proteins (AFP) are much more effective than fish AFPs at depressing solution freezing points by ice-growth inhibition. AFP from the beetle Tenebrio molitor is a small protein (8.4 kDa) composed of tandem 12-residue repeats (TCTxSxxCxxAx). Here we report its 1.4-A resolution crystal structure, showing that this repetitive sequence translates into an exceptionally regular beta-helix. Not only are the 12-amino-acid loops almost identical in the backbone, but also the conserved side chains are positioned in essentially identical orientations, making this AFP perhaps the most regular protein structure yet observed. The protein has almost no hydrophobic core but is stabilized by numerous disulphide and hydrogen bonds. On the conserved side of the protein, threonine-cysteine-threonine motifs are arrayed to form a flat beta-sheet, the putative ice-binding surface. The threonine side chains have exactly the same rotameric conformation and the spacing between OH groups is a near-perfect match to the ice lattice. Together with tightly bound co-planar external water, three ranks of oxygen atoms form a two-dimensional array, mimicking an ice section.     

Rationalization of the effects of mutations on peptide and protein aggregation rates

In order for any biological system to function effectively, it is essential to avoid the inherent tendency of proteins to aggregate and form potentially harmful deposits. In each of the various pathological conditions associated with protein deposition, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, a specific peptide or protein that is normally soluble is deposited as insoluble aggregates generally referred to as amyloid. It is clear that the aggregation process is generally initiated from partially or completely unfolded forms of the peptides and proteins associated with each disease. Here we show that the intrinsic effects of specific mutations on the rates of aggregation of unfolded polypeptide chains can be correlated to a remarkable extent with changes in simple physicochemical properties such as hydrophobicity, secondary structure propensity and charge. This approach allows the pathogenic effects of mutations associated with known familial forms of protein deposition diseases to be rationalized, and more generally enables prediction of the effects of mutations on the aggregation propensity of any polypeptide chain.     

基于一种新型马尔科夫模型的预测蛋白质亚细胞位点的方法

亚细胞位点是蛋白质很重要的功能特征.找到一种有效的、可信度高的预测蛋白质位点的方法是很必要的.提出了一种基于马尔科夫模型的改进预测方法.首先,对于一条给定的蛋白质序列,通过计算在马尔科夫模型下20个氨基酸残基的状态转移矩阵,建立一个420维的特征向量,然后利用支持向量机进行训练和预测,最后夹克刀检验证实了该方法的预测精度与以前的马尔科夫模型相比得到了一定的提高.     

从序列预测蛋白质折叠速率

基于序列预测二级结构的蛋白质折叠速率的成功预测暗示着折叠速率能够单独从序列中预测出来.为了追踪这一问题,提出了从序列预测折叠速率的一种方法,而不需要任何二级结构和拓扑的信息.残基对折叠速率的影响与氨基酸的性质有密切的关系.对双态和多态蛋白质实验测定的折叠速率的相关性达到了82.9%,这意味着蛋白质的氨基酸序列是决定折叠速率和机理的重要因素.     

同源建模方法预测蛋白质突变结构的适用性分析

通过从Protein Data Bank(PDB)结构数据库中提取单氨基酸突变的晶体结构,构建了一组无冗余的测试数据集,对目前应用最广泛的两款同源建模预测软件(SWISS-MODEL和MODELLER)进行了测试分析,发现它们对蛋白质的整体结构预测效果良好,均方根偏差小于0.5埃(RMSD0.5),但在突变导致结构显著变化(RMSD1.5)的情况下却均不能得到准确结果.分类统计显示,发生在蛋白质结构内部和极性氨基酸之间的突变结构变化小,两款软件预测效果较好(RMSD1.0).突变导致结构显著变化的可能性不高(5%),但它对蛋白质功能的影响不可忽视,因此应用同源建模方法对于蛋白质突变的模拟并不完全适用,还需要开发新方法来提高准确性.     

SARS冠状病毒及相关病毒的分子系统学分析

根据SARS冠状病毒及其相关病毒的基因组核酸序列和3种不同蛋白质序列，应用最大简约法和最小进化法重建系统发育树；并对SARS冠状病毒的11个推测蛋白质(ORF)做BLAST分析。结果表明，SARS冠状病毒和鼠肝炎病毒——牛冠状病毒分支构成姊妹群。其单系群性质得到强有力的统计学支持。这暗示了SARS的爆发可能源自种间屏障的突破事件，该病毒天然宿主可能为猪、牛或鼠。SARS冠状病毒与已知的人冠状病毒分属冠状病毒科的不同分支，因此致病机制可能有很大不同。3个基因的系统树分支格局的一致性表明：SARS冠状病毒这3个主要基因与其他冠状病毒间不存在重组，但全部11个ORF的BLAST分析却认为其基因组上一些小的区段可能与其他病毒存在重组。