Title
Prediction of transporter targets using efficient RBF networks with PSSM profiles and biochemical properties.
Abstract
Transporters are proteins that are involved in the movement of ions or molecules across biological membranes. Currently, our knowledge about the functions of transporters is limited due to the paucity of their 3D structures. Hence, computational techniques are necessary to annotate the functions of transporters. In this work, we focused on an important functional aspect of transporters, namely annotation of targets for transport proteins. We have systematically analyzed four major classes of transporters with different transporter targets: (i) electron, (ii) protein/mRNA, (iii) ion and (iv) others, using amino acid properties. We have developed a radial basis function network-based method for predicting transport targets with amino acid properties and position specific scoring matrix profiles. Our method showed a 10-fold cross-validation accuracy of 90.1, 80.1, 70.3 and 82.3% for electron transporters, protein/mRNA transporters, ion transporters and others, respectively, in a dataset of 543 transporters. We have also evaluated the performance of the method with an independent dataset of 108 proteins and we obtained similar accuracy. We suggest that our method could be an effective tool for functional annotation of transport proteins.http://rbf.bioinfo.tw/~sachen/ttrbf.html
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr340
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
10-fold cross-validation accuracy,efficient rbf network,independent dataset,transport protein,biochemical property,functional annotation,electron transporter,transport target,pssm profile,important functional aspect,network-based method,amino acid property,ion transporter
Radial basis function network,Biological membrane,Biology,Transporter,Amino acid,Biochemistry,Carrier protein,Bioinformatics,Transport protein
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
15
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.88
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shu-An Chen1854.78
Yu-Yen Ou225216.78
Tzong-Yi Lee361737.18
M. Michael Gromiha478082.12