Predicting protein-protein interactions on a proteome scale by matching evolutionary and structural similarities at interfaces using PRISM

2011-09-01
Gursoy, Attila
Tunçbağ, Nurcan
NUSSINOV, Ruth
Keskin, Ozlem
Prediction of protein-protein interactions at the structural level on the proteome scale is important because it allows prediction of protein function, helps drug discovery and takes steps toward genome-wide structural systems biology. We provide a protocol (termed PRISM, protein interactions by structural matching) for large-scale prediction of protein-protein interactions and assembly of protein complex structures. The method consists of two components: rigid-body structural comparisons of target proteins to known template protein-protein interfaces and flexible refinement using a docking energy function. The PRISM rationale follows our observation that globally different protein structures can interact via similar architectural motifs. PRISM predicts binding residues by using structural similarity and evolutionary conservation of putative binding residue 'hot spots'. Ultimately, PRISM could help to construct cellular pathways and functional, proteome-scale annotation. PRISM is implemented in Python and runs in a UNIX environment. The program accepts Protein Data Bank-formatted protein structures and is available at http://prism.ccbb.ku.edu.tr/prism_protocol/.
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Citation Formats
A. Gursoy, N. Tunçbağ, R. NUSSINOV, and O. Keskin, “Predicting protein-protein interactions on a proteome scale by matching evolutionary and structural similarities at interfaces using PRISM,” NATURE PROTOCOLS, pp. 1341–1354, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31039.