Authors: Lin G, Xu D, Chen ZZ, Jiang T, Wen J, Xu Y
NMR resonance assignment is one of the key steps in solving an NMR protein structure. The assignment process links resonance peaks to individual residues of the target protein sequence, providing the prerequisite for establishing intra- and inter-residue spatial relationships between atoms. The assignment process is tedious and time-consuming, which could take many weeks. Though there exist a number of computer programs to assist the assignment process, many NMR labs are still doing the assignments manually to ensure quality. This paper presents a new computational method based on our recent work towards automating the assignment process, particularly the process of backbone resonance peak assignment. We formulate the assignment problem as a constrained weighted bipartite matching problem. While the problem, in the most general situation, is NP-hard, we present an efficient solution based on a branch-and-bound algorithm with effective bounding techniques and a greedy filtering algorithm for reducing the search space. Our experimental results on 70 instances of (pseudo) real NMR data derived from 14 proteins demonstrate that the new solution runs much faster than a recently introduced (exhaustive) two-layer algorithm and recovers more correct peak assignments than the two-layer algorithm.
Sparsely-sampled High-resolution 4-D Experiments for Efficient Backbone Resonance Assignment of Disordered Proteins
Sparsely-sampled High-resolution 4-D Experiments for Efficient Backbone Resonance Assignment of Disordered Proteins
Publication year: 2011
Source: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 January 2011</br>
Jie, Wen , Jihui, Wu , Pei, Zhou</br>
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play important roles in many critical cellular processes. Due to their limited chemical shift dispersion, IDPs often require four pairs of resonance connectivities (H?, C?, C? and CO) for establishing sequential backbone assignment. Because most conventional 4-D...
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Optimization of amino acid type-specific (13)C and (15)N labeling for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins by solution- and solid-state NMR with the UPLABEL algorithm.
Optimization of amino acid type-specific (13)C and (15)N labeling for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins by solution- and solid-state NMR with the UPLABEL algorithm.
Optimization of amino acid type-specific (13)C and (15)N labeling for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins by solution- and solid-state NMR with the UPLABEL algorithm.
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Authors: Hefke F, Bagaria A, Reckel S, Ullrich SJ, Dötsch V, Glaubitz C, Güntert P
We present a computational method for finding optimal labeling patterns for the backbone...
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Optimization of amino acid type-specific 13C and 15N labeling for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins by solution- and solid-state NMR with the UPLABEL algorithm
Optimization of amino acid type-specific 13C and 15N labeling for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins by solution- and solid-state NMR with the UPLABEL algorithm
Abstract We present a computational method for finding optimal labeling patterns for the backbone assignment of membrane proteins and other large proteins that cannot be assigned by conventional strategies. Following the approach of Kainosho and Tsuji (Biochemistry 21:6273â??6279 (1982)), types of amino acids are labeled with 13C or/and 15N such that cross peaks between 13CO(i â?? 1) and 15NH(i) result only for pairs...
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[NMR paper] GANA--a genetic algorithm for NMR backbone resonance assignment.
GANA--a genetic algorithm for NMR backbone resonance assignment.
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2005;33(14):4593-601
Authors: Lin HN, Wu KP, Chang JM, Sung TY, Hsu WL
NMR data from different experiments often contain errors; thus, automated backbone resonance assignment is a very challenging issue. In this paper, we present a method called GANA that uses a genetic algorithm to automatically perform backbone resonance assignment with a high degree of precision and recall....
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[NMR paper] Computational assignment of protein backbone NMR peaks by efficient bounding and filt
Computational assignment of protein backbone NMR peaks by efficient bounding and filtering.
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J Bioinform Comput Biol. 2003 Jul;1(2):387-409
Authors: Lin G, Xu D, Chen ZZ, Jiang T, Wen J, Xu Y
NMR resonance assignment is one of the key steps in solving an NMR protein structure. The assignment process links resonance peaks to individual residues of the target protein sequence, providing the prerequisite for establishing intra- and...
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[NMR paper] An efficient 3D NMR technique for correlating the proton and 15N backbone amide reson
An efficient 3D NMR technique for correlating the proton and 15N backbone amide resonances with the alpha-carbon of the preceding residue in uniformly 15N/13C enriched proteins.
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J Biomol NMR. 1991 May;1(1):99-104
Authors: Bax A, Ikura M
A 3D NMR technique is described which correlates the amide proton and nitrogen resonances of an amino acid residue...
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[NMR paper] A branch and bound algorithm for protein structure refinement from sparse NMR data se
A branch and bound algorithm for protein structure refinement from sparse NMR data sets.
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J Mol Biol. 1999 Jan 29;285(4):1691-710
Authors: Standley DM, Eyrich VA, Felts AK, Friesner RA, McDermott AE
We describe new methods for predicting protein tertiary structures to low resolution given the specification of secondary structure and a...
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Automated sequence-specific protein NMR assignment using the memetic algorithm MATCH
Automated sequence-specific protein NMR assignment using the memetic algorithm MATCH
Jochen Volk, Torsten Herrmann and Kurt Wüthrich
Journal of Biomolecular NMR; 2008; 41(3); pp 127 - 138
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MATCH (Memetic Algorithm and Combinatorial Optimization Heuristics) is a new memetic algorithm for automated sequence-specific polypeptide backbone NMR assignment of proteins. MATCH employs local optimization for tracing partial sequence-specific assignments within a global, population-based search environment, where the simultaneous application of local and global optimization heuristics...