Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201900343
Keywords
model building programs; pairwise alignment methods; protein structure modeling; soluble and membrane proteins; template-based modeling
Funding
- Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes on Systems Metabolic Engineering for Biorefineries [NRF-2012M1A2A2026556, NRF-2012M1A2A2026557]
- Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea [NRF-2018M3A9F3079664]
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Modeling protein structures is critical for understanding protein functions in various biological and biotechnological studies. Among representative protein structure modeling approaches, template-based modeling (TBM) is by far the most reliable and most widely used approach to model protein structures. However, it still remains as a challenge to select appropriate software programs for pairwise alignments and model building, two major steps of the TBM. In this paper, pairwise alignment methods for TBM are first compared with respect to the quality of structure models built using these methods. This comparative study is conducted using comprehensive datasets, which cover 6185 domain sequences from Structural Classification of Proteins extended for soluble proteins, and 259 Protein Data Bank entries (whole protein sequences) from Orientations of Proteins in Membranes database for membrane proteins. Overall, a profile-based method, especially PSI-BLAST, consistently shows high performance across the datasets and model evaluation metrics used. Next, use of two model building programs, MODELLER and SWISS-MODEL, does not seem to significantly affect the quality of protein structure models built except for the Hard group (a group of relatively less homologous proteins) of membrane proteins. The results presented in this study will be useful for more accurate implementation of TBM.
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