Periscope: quantitative prediction of soluble protein expression in the periplasm of Escherichia coli.
Periscope: quantitative prediction of soluble protein expression in the periplasm of Escherichia coli.
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Periscope:定量预测大肠杆菌周质中可溶性蛋白的表达
DOI:
10.1038/srep21844
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发表时间:
2016-03-02
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Ramanan RN
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作者:
Chang CC;Li C;Webb GI;Tey B;Song J;Ramanan RN
Periplasmic expression of soluble proteins inEscherichia colinot only offers a much-simplified downstream purification process, but also enhances the probability of obtaining correctly folded and biologically active proteins. Different combinations of signal peptides and target proteins lead to different soluble protein expression levels, ranging from negligible to several grams per litre. Accurate algorithms for rational selection of promising candidates can serve as a powerful tool to complement with current trial-and-error approaches. Accordingly, proteomics studies can be conducted with greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Here, we developed a predictor with a two-stage architecture, to predict the real-valued expression level of target protein in the periplasm. The output of the first-stage support vector machine (SVM) classifier determines which second-stage support vector regression (SVR) classifier to be used. When tested on an independent test dataset, the predictor achieved an overall prediction accuracy of 78% and a Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC) of 0.77. We further illustrate the relative importance of various features with respect to different models. The results indicate that the occurrence of dipeptide glutamine and aspartic acid is the most important feature for the classification model. Finally, we provide access to the implemented predictor through the Periscope webserver, freely accessible athttp://lightning.med.monash.edu/periscope/.