Prediction of boundaries between intrinsically ordered and disordered protein regions

Pac Symp Biocomput. 2003:216-27.

Abstract

Using proteins with both disordered and ordered regions collected through literature searches and database scanning, we assembled a set of 24-residue long segments centered on their order/disorder boundaries as well as a larger set of non-boundary segments consisting of either order or disorder. We analyzed position-specific amino acid compositions around the order/disorder boundaries and found more than thirty significant (p < 0.05) compositional differences between boundary and non-boundary data. From this analysis, we constructed several logistic regression predictors of order/disorder boundaries using slightly different data modeling approaches. Exact boundary prediction accuracies were estimated to be in the range from 74% to 80% for the different predictors.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acids / analysis
  • Computer Simulation
  • Databases, Protein
  • Logistic Models
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / genetics
  • Sensitivity and Specificity

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Proteins