title: MemO: a consensus approach to the annotation of a protein's membrane organization.
abstract: Membrane organization describes the relationship of proteins to the membrane, that is, whether the protein crosses the membrane or is integral to the membrane and its orientation with respect to the membrane. Membrane organization is determined primarily by the presence of two features which target proteins to the secretory pathway: the endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide and the ?-helical transmembrane domain. In order to generate membrane organization annotation of high quality, confidence and throughput, the Membrane Organization (MemO) pipeline was developed, incorporating consensus feature prediction modules with integration and annotation rules derived from biological observations. The pipeline classifies proteins into six categories based on the presence or absence of predicted features: Soluble, intracellular proteins; Soluble, secreted proteins; Type I membrane proteins; Type II membrane proteins; Multi-span membrane proteins and Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchored membrane proteins. The MemO pipeline represents an integrated strategy for the application of state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools to the annotation of protein membrane organization, a property which adds biological context to the large quantities of protein sequence information available.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Bioscience and ARC Centre in Bioinformatics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Melissa J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Fasheng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Rohan D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Teasdale
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D030562:Databases, Protein; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals / Q000235:genetics; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals