Predicting human protein subcellular localization by heterogeneous and comprehensive approaches

PLoS One. 2017 Jun 28;12(6):e0178832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178832. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Drug development and investigation of protein function both require an understanding of protein subcellular localization. We developed a system, REALoc, that can predict the subcellular localization of singleplex and multiplex proteins in humans. This system, based on comprehensive strategy, consists of two heterogeneous systematic frameworks that integrate one-to-one and many-to-many machine learning methods and use sequence-based features, including amino acid composition, surface accessibility, weighted sign aa index, and sequence similarity profile, as well as gene ontology function-based features. REALoc can be used to predict localization to six subcellular compartments (cell membrane, cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum/Golgi, mitochondrion, nucleus, and extracellular). REALoc yielded a 75.3% absolute true success rate during five-fold cross-validation and a 57.1% absolute true success rate in an independent database test, which was >10% higher than six other prediction systems. Lastly, we analyzed the effects of Vote and GANN models on singleplex and multiplex localization prediction efficacy. REALoc is freely available at http://predictor.nchu.edu.tw/REALoc.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acids / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Subcellular Fractions / metabolism*

Substances

  • Amino Acids

Grants and funding

This research was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. under grant number 105-2221-E-216-021.