SSAIA Server
Research Paper
Predicting Interface Residues for Protein Polymers Based on Module Division
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Abstract: In field of computational biology, AlphaFold has made remarkable progress in predicting protein structures. However, for some multimeric complexes, the accuracy of its predictions still needs to be improved. Enhancing prediction of binding sites in protein oligomers contributes to the prediction of overall structures, and the details of binding sites are crucial for understanding of functional mechanism, affinity, and specificity of complexes. The approach presented here is independent of black-box modeling, thereby facilitating a clearer elucidation of underlying biological mechanisms of protein-protein interaction interfaces. The study investigates protein interaction sites mainly for trimers and tetramers in the PDB database, using a modular division method. By ranking modules based on the SSAIA (a linear combination of square of solvent-accessible surface area and internal contact area) value, it was found that interface modules are more likely to appear in surface modules with lower SSAIA values. Among 44,964 monomers, 92.25% of monomer interface residues are found in the three modules with the smallest SSAIA values. In 5,240 trimers, 98.63% of complexes have at least one chain correctly predicted, and in 7,311 tetramers, 98.92% of complexes have at least one chain correctly predicted, with an average of approximately 3 out of 4 residues in the top-ranked interface modules being interface residues. The comparison results with other methods in Benchmark 3.0 dataset and 12 targets of the CASP15 competition have validated the effectiveness of our approach, providing a new perspective for the prediction of binding sites in multimer interactions. Utilizing the method presented in this article, we have provided a server for scholars to predict protein interaction interfaces at http://mialab.ruc.edu.cn/SSAIAServer/, and the PDB code used in this work can also be obtained.
Introduction
SSAIA server is an online server to calculate SSAIA of proteins and then give a series of residue patches which may contain possible binding sites of protein polymers, mainly for dimers, trimer and tetramers. Interested readers can try to use the server we provide to predict the interface residues of multimeric proteins with more than four chains. Note that we are unable to predict proteins with number of monomer residues exceeding 1,000.
Usage Instructions
- Step 1: Input your email address (required for results)
- Step 2: Upload PDB files (single file or ZIP)
- Step 3: Click Submit to process files
- Step 4: Click Run to start analysis
- Step 5: Wait for results and download ZIP file
Results Interpretation
- Format: ZIP file containing result files
- Content: {pdb_name}_result.txt files
- Details: Surface modules, interface modules, and rankings
- Top5: Highest ranking patches per chain
- Contact: 2021103691@ruc.edu.cn
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