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A Romance between Biology and Chemistry – Protein Sequences, Molecules and Enzyme function!

15 Saturday Aug 2015

Posted by chembioinfo in Work

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AAM, Biomarker, Bond Changes, Classification, Directed evolution, EBI, EC Number, EMBL-EBI, Enzyme Classification, Functional genomics, Genes, Github, GO, KEGG, Metabolic pathways, Metabolomics, MMP, Novel Genes, Nutrigenomics, Ontology, Predicting, Protein Sequence, Rational design, Reaction Similarity, Seq2EC, Sequence, Small Molecule, substructure, Toxicity

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data is knocking at our door and simultaneously, our ability to design novel enzymes (rational design or directed evolution) using high throughput methods has improved tremendously. As a result, the demand to link enzymatic sequences to their chemical products and metabolic pathways is ever increasing.  On the other hand, the push to generate Metabolomics data to design Biomarkers, understand Toxicity, Functional genomics and Nutrigenomics has given researchers a run for their money!

Last year we launched EC-Blast (my old post), a robust tool to compare chemical reactions using chemical knowledge of bond changes, molecule molecule pair (MMP) and molecule substructures. This tool helps plough through and understand the reactions present in the Enzyme Commission (E.C.) classification. This has generated a lot of interest in the research community and industry to revisit and mine the knowledge which might have been overlooked by traditional methods. Feedbacks from our users strongly suggested a demand for tools/methods to systematically link the protein sequences to the knowledge of bond changes, molecule molecule pair (MMP) and molecules substructures.

We have recently developed Sequence to Enzyme (Seq2EC) a novel tool (Figure 1) to:

  • Detect novel enzymatic genes- test if a sequence has potential enzymatic function.
  • Predict GO terms, E.C. number, bond changes and MMP from a protein sequence.
  • Predict potential genes and protein domains from chemical bonds (e.g. O-C, O-P formed or cleaved).
Seq2EC: A robust tool to predict/detect enzyme from protein sequence

Figure 1: Predicting enzyme function from protein sequence

There are two ways to use the tool:

  1. Seq2EC webservice/webserver (requires patience): http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/software/rblec/
  2. Download and run locally (fast) – contact me!

The tool reports a star ranking schema (Table 1) for predicted enzymes which is based on the statistical confidence of finding domains, bonds, catalytic sites etc.

Table 1: Star ranking schema explained

Star Rank Note
**** Platinum Confident till the 4th level of EC
*** Gold Confident till the 3rd level of EC
** Silver Confident till the 2nd level of EC
* Bonze Confident till the 1st level of EC
. Ambiguous Might have an enzymatic activity

Please go ahead and test your favourite sequence(s) or chemical changes and send me your feedback/comments!

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    Updated:07/01/2015 BLAST-Basic Local Alignment Tool was born in the 1990s (1,2) and has since been the bread and butter of …Continue reading →
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  • EC-BLAST Tutorial for Hands-on Training February 4, 2014
    EC-BLAST Tutorial for Hands-on Training Publication:  EC-BLAST: a tool to automatically search and compare enzyme reactions, SA Rahman, SM Cuesta, N …Continue reading →
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