PROT-ON: Structure-Based Detection of Critical Mutations in Redesigning Protein-Protein Interfaces

2022-10
Koşaca, Mehdi
Yılmazbilek, İrem
Karaca , Ezgi
Deformation of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) causes several diseases. Many therapeutic agents have been developed by time-consuming experimental techniques. On the other hand, computational methods have been used to estimate the impact of interfacial mutations faster and more easily. The most used and accurate algorithms, EvoEF1 [1] and FoldX [2], are specialized to estimate the impact of mutations. However, their manual pipeline is insufficient to analyze all interfacial mutation possibilities. To address this issue, we have developed PROT-ON. PROT-ON offers a novel automatic pipeline that scans the interfacial residues of a protein complex in the user interest cut-off distance. Then, they are mutated into other 19 amino acids and their binding affinities are predicted by EvoEF1 or FoldX. In the final step, estimated ∆∆G binding affinities are statistically analyzed with a box-and-whisker analysis. The most enriching and depleting mutations are proposed by filtering stability and evolutionary information (if accessible), and interactive heatmap and box-whiskers are generated (Figure 1). We have tested the PROT-ON on the receptor binding domain (RBD) of Spike, and the catalytic domain of human ACE2 to detect dangerous mutations. Tian et al. [3] worked on experimental studies on RBD variants called Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. The most famous one is determined as N501Y mutation and led to an increased binding affinity. Moreover, K417N, G446S, Q493R, G496S, and Q498R are identified as interfacial RBD mutations that are observed in variants. PROT-ON detected mutations lead to enriching positions as Q493R, and G496S which were previously defined on the variants. PROT-ON could be used by drug development and protein design researchers to redesign the interface. Interfacial mutations even not emerge in the evolutionary time can be predicted in a short time with our approach. We have presented a user-friendly web server and a standalone version. It can be accessed via http://proton.tools.ibg.edu.tr:8001.

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Citation Formats
M. Koşaca, İ. Yılmazbilek, and E. Karaca, “PROT-ON: Structure-Based Detection of Critical Mutations in Redesigning Protein-Protein Interfaces,” Erdemli, Mersin, TÜRKİYE, 2022, p. 1077, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hibit2022.ims.metu.edu.tr/.