Novel domain identification approach for protein-protein interaction prediction

Maad Shatnawi, Nazar M. Zaki

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Abstract

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) plays a crucial role in cellular biological processes and functions. The identification of protein interactions can lead to a better understanding of infection mechanisms and the development of many drugs and treatment. Several physiochemical experimental techniques have been applied to identify PPIs. However, these techniques are significantly time consuming and have covered only a small portion of the complete PPI networks. As a result, the need for computational techniques has increased to validate experimental results and to predict novel PPIs. In this work, we propose a domain identification approach for PPI prediction based only on Amino Acid (AA) sequence information. Domains are the structural and functional units of proteins and, therefore, proteins interact as a result of their interacting domains. We identify structural domains within proteins through integrating the amino acid compositional index in conjunction with physiochemical properties to construct a domain linker profile which is used to train a TreeBagger domain identification predictor. Once structural domains are identified in two protein sequences, we predict whether these two proteins interact or not by analyzing the interacting structural domains that they contain. The proposed approach was tested on a standard PPI dataset and showed considerable improvement over the existing PPI predictors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479969265
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 16 2015
EventIEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2015 - Niagara Falls, Canada
Duration: Aug 12 2015Aug 15 2015

Publication series

Name2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2015

Other

OtherIEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityNiagara Falls
Period8/12/158/15/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Health Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Engineering

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