title: A Multifeatures Fusion and Discrete Firefly Optimization Method for Prediction of Protein Tyrosine Sulfation Residues.
abstract: Tyrosine sulfation is one of the ubiquitous protein posttranslational modifications, where some sulfate groups are added to the tyrosine residues. It plays significant roles in various physiological processes in eukaryotic cells. To explore the molecular mechanism of tyrosine sulfation, one of the prerequisites is to correctly identify possible protein tyrosine sulfation residues. In this paper, a novel method was presented to predict protein tyrosine sulfation residues from primary sequences. By means of informative feature construction and elaborate feature selection and parameter optimization scheme, the proposed predictor achieved promising results and outperformed many other state-of-the-art predictors. Using the optimal features subset, the proposed method achieved mean MCC of 94.41% on the benchmark dataset, and a MCC of 90.09% on the independent dataset. The experimental performance indicated that our new proposed method could be effective in identifying the important protein posttranslational modifications and the feature selection scheme would be powerful in protein functional residues prediction research fields.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer and Information Technology, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China.
authors.forename: Song
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8132-1951
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: School of Computer and Information Technology, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China.
authors.forename: Chunhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Information Engineering, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang 843300, China; Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, Zhengzhou 450015, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Computer and Information Technology, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China.
authors.forename: Yanling
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D019277:Entropy; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational / Q000235:genetics*; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D013431:Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D013431:Sulfates; D014443:Tyrosine