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AUTOMATED FUNCTION PREDICTION

Recurrent use of evolutionary importance for functional annotation of proteins based on local structural similarity

¹ Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
² Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
³ Department of Computer Science
⁴ Department of Statistics
⁵ Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77030, USA

(RECEIVED February 11, 2006; FINAL REVISION February 11, 2006; ACCEPTED February 12, 2006)

The annotation of protein function has not kept pace with the exponential growth of raw sequence and structure data. An emerging solution to this problem is to identify 3D motifs or templates in protein structures that are necessary and sufficient determinants of function. Here, we demonstrate the recurrent use of evolutionary trace information to construct such 3D templates for enzymes, search for them in other structures, and distinguish true from spurious matches. Serine protease templates built from evolutionarily important residues distinguish between proteases and other proteins nearly as well as the classic Ser-His-Asp catalytic triad. In 53 enzymes spanning 33 distinct functions, an automated pipeline identifies functionally related proteins with an average positive predictive power of 62%, including correct matches to proteins with the same function but with low sequence identity (the average identity for some templates is only 17%). Although these template building, searching, and match classification strategies are not yet optimized, their sequential implementation demonstrates a functional annotation pipeline which does not require experimental information, but only local molecular mimicry among a small number of evolutionarily important residues.

Keywords: function prediction; proteome annotation; evolution; structural genomics; structural motif

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