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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 328, 期 3, 页码 581-592出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00319-X
关键词
peroxisome; PTS1; subcellular localisation; protein sequence motif; gene function prediction
Peroxisomal matrix proteins have to be imported into their target organelle post-translationally. The major translocation pathway depends on a C-terminal targeting signal, termed PTS1. Our previous analysis of sequence variability in the PTS1 motif revealed that, in addition to the known C-terminal tripeptide, at least nine residues directly upstream are important for signal recognition in the PTS1-Pex5 receptor complex. The refined PTS1 motif description was implemented in a prediction tool composed of taxon-specific functions (metazoa, fungi, remaining taxa), capable of recognising potential PTS1s in query sequences. The composite score function consists of classical profile terms and additional terms penalising deviations from the derived physical property pattern over sequence segments. The prediction algorithm has been validated with a self-consistency and three different cross-validation tests. Additionally, we tested the tool on a large set of non-peroxisomal negatives, on mutation data, and compared the prediction rate to the PTS1 component of the PSORT2 program. The sensitivity of our predictor in recognising documented PTS1 signal containing proteins is close to 90% for reliable prediction. The predictor distinguishes even SKL-appended non-peroxisomally targeted proteins such as a mouse dihydrofolate reductase-SKL construct. The corresponding rate of false positives is not worse than 0.8%; thus, the tool can be applied for large-scale unsupervised sequence database annotation. A scan of public protein databases uncovered a number of yet uncharacterised proteins for which the PTS1 signal might be critical for biological function. The predicted presence of a PTS1 signal implies peroxisomal localisation in the absence of N-terminal targeting sequences such as the mitochondrial import signal. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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