title: Combining sequence and structural profiles for protein solvent accessibility prediction.
abstract: Solvent accessibility is an important structural feature for a protein. We propose a new method for solvent accessibility prediction that uses known structure and sequence information more efficiently. We first estimate the relative solvent accessibility of the query protein using fuzzy mean operator from the solvent accessibilities of known structure fragments that have similar sequences to the query protein. We then integrate the estimated solvent accessibility and the position specific scoring matrix of the query protein using a neural network. We tested our method on a large data set consisting of 3386 non-redundant proteins. The comparison with other methods show slightly improved prediction accuracies with our method. The resulting system does need not be re-trained when new data is available. We incorporated our method into the MUPRED system, which is available as a web server at http://digbio.missouri.edu/mupred.
authors.affiliation: Digital Biology Laboratory, 110 C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. raj@bioanalysis.org
authors.forename: Rajkumar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bondugula
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D012997:Solvents