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Getting to know each other: PPIMem, a novel approach for predicting transmembrane protein-protein complexes

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Because of their considerable number and diversity, membrane proteins and their macromolecular complexes represent the functional units of cells. Their quaternary structure may be stabilized by interactions between the a-helices of different proteins in the hydrophobic region of the cell membrane. Membrane proteins equally represent potential pharmacological targets par excellence for various diseases. Unfortunately, their experimental 3D structure and that of their complexes with other intramembrane protein partners are scarce due to technical difficulties. To overcome this key problem, we devised PPIMem, a computational approach for the specific prediction of higher-order structures of a-helical transmembrane proteins. The novel approach involves proper identification of the amino acid residues at the interface of molecular complexes with a 3D structure. The identified residues compose then nonlinear interaction motifs that are conveniently expressed as mathematical regular expressions. These are efficiently implemented for motif search in amino acid sequence databases, and for the accurate prediction of intramembrane protein-protein complexes. Our template interface-based approach predicted 21,544 binary complexes between 1,504 eukaryotic plasma membrane proteins across 39 species. We compare our predictions to experimental datasets of protein-protein interactions as a first validation method.
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hal-03354041 , version 1 (24-09-2021)

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Georges Khazen, Aram Gyulkhandanian, Tina Issa, Rachid Maroun. Getting to know each other: PPIMem, a novel approach for predicting transmembrane protein-protein complexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021, 19, pp.5184-5197. ⟨10.1016/j.csbj.2021.09.013⟩. ⟨hal-03354041⟩
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