Time-Frequency Approach Applied to Finding Interaction Regions in Pathogenic Proteins.

Time-Frequency Approach Applied to Finding Interaction Regions in Pathogenic Proteins. Bioinform Biol Insights. 2019;13:1177932219850172 Authors: Arenas AF, Arango-Plaza N, Arenas JC, Salcedo GE Abstract Protein-protein interactions govern all molecular processes for living organisms, even those involved in pathogen infection. Pathogens such as virus, bacteria, and parasites contain proteins that help the pathogen to attach, penetrate, and settle inside the target cell. Thus, it is necessary to know the regions in pathogenic proteins that interact with host cell receptors. Currently, powerful pathogen databases are available and many pathogenic proteins have been recognized, but many pathogenic proteins have not been characterized. This work developed a program in MATLAB environment based on the time-frequency analysis to recognize important sites in proteins. Our program highlights the highest energy patches in proteins from their time-frequency distribution and matches the corresponding frequency. We sought to know if this approach is able to recognize stretches residues related to interaction. Our approach was applied to five study cases from pathogenic co-crystallized structures that have been well characterized. We searched the frequencies that characterize interaction regions in pathogenic proteins and with this information tried to identify new interaction patches in either paralogs or orthologs. We found that our program gene...
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