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Logistic regression models to predict solvent accessible residues using sequence- and homology-based qualitative and quantitative descriptors applied to a domain-complete X-ray structure learning set
Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • Reecha Nepal, San Jose State University
  • Joanna Spencer, San Jose State University
  • Guneet Bhogal, San Jose State University
  • Amulya Nedunuri, San Jose State University
  • Thomas Poelman, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  • Thejas Kamath, University of California, San Diego
  • Edwin Chung, San Jose State University
  • Katherine Kantardjieff, California State University - San Marcos
  • Andrea Gottlieb, San Jose State University
  • Brooke Lustig, San Jose State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2015
DOI
10.1107/S1600576715018531
Keywords
  • relative solvent accessibility,
  • logistic regression,
  • Lobanov–Galzitskaya descriptor
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Abstract

A working example of relative solvent accessibility (RSA) prediction for proteins is presented. Novel logistic regression models with various qualitative descriptors that include amino acid type and quantitative descriptors that include 20- and six-term sequence entropy have been built and validated. A domain-complete learning set of over 1300 proteins is used to fit initial models with various sequence homology descriptors as well as query residue qualitative descriptors. Homology descriptors are derived from BLASTp sequence alignments, whereas the RSA values are determined directly from the crystal structure. The logistic regression models are fitted using dichotomous responses indicating buried or accessible solvent, with binary classifications obtained from the RSA values. The fitted models determine binary predictions of residue solvent accessibility with accuracies comparable to other less computationally intensive methods using the standard RSA threshold criteria 20 and 25% as solvent accessible. When an additional non-homology descriptor describing Lobanov–Galzitskaya residue disorder propensity is included, incremental improvements in accuracy are achieved with 25% threshold accuracies of 76.12 and 74.45% for the Manesh-215 and CASP(8+9) test sets, respectively. Moreover, the described software and the accompanying learning and validation sets allow students and researchers to explore the utility of RSA prediction with simple, physically intuitive models in any number of related applications.

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This article was published in the Journal of Applied Crystallography, volume 48, issue 6, 2015. It is also available at this link.

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Citation Information
Reecha Nepal, Joanna Spencer, Guneet Bhogal, Amulya Nedunuri, et al.. "Logistic regression models to predict solvent accessible residues using sequence- and homology-based qualitative and quantitative descriptors applied to a domain-complete X-ray structure learning set" Journal of Applied Crystallography Vol. 48 Iss. 6 (2015) p. 1976 - 1984
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