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利用蛋白质结构鉴定非随机体细胞突变

Utilizing Protein Structure to Identify Non-Random Somatic Mutations

Gregory Ryslik, Yuwei Cheng, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Yorgo Modis, Hongyu Zhao

摘要:

动机:人类癌症是由基因组内肿瘤抑制基因和癌基因的体细胞突变积累引起的。在癌基因的情况下,最近的理论表明,只有几个关键的“驱动”突变负责肿瘤的发生。由于在开发治疗携带这些驱动突变的癌症的药物方面取得了重大的药理学成功,已经开发了几种依赖于突变聚类的方法来识别它们。然而,这些方法将蛋白质视为单链,而不考虑其空间结构。我们提出了一种新的方法,结合蛋白质的三级结构,以增加我们的权力时,确定突变聚类。结果如下:我们已经开发了一种新的算法,iPAC:蛋白质氨基酸聚类识别,用于识别蛋白质中的非随机体细胞突变,考虑到三维蛋白质结构。通过使用三级信息,我们能够检测已知表现出突变聚类的蛋白质中的新簇,以及基于现有方法在没有聚类证据的情况下识别蛋白质中的簇。例如,通过结合蛋白质数据库(PDB)和癌症体细胞突变目录中的数据,我们的算法在已知的癌症蛋白质(如KRAS和PI3KCa)中识别出新的突变簇。此外,通过利用三级结构,我们的算法还识别了EGFR,EIF2AK2和其他蛋白质中未被当前方法识别的簇。

英文摘要:

Motivation: Human cancer is caused by the accumulation of somatic mutations in tumor suppressors and oncogenes within the genome. In the case of oncogenes, recent theory suggests that there are only a few key "driver" mutations responsible for tumorigenesis. As there have been significant pharmacological successes in developing drugs that treat cancers that carry these driver mutations, several methods that rely on mutational clustering have been developed to identify them. However, these methods consider proteins as a single strand without taking their spatial structures into account. We propose a new methodology that incorporates protein tertiary structure in order to increase our power when identifying mutation clustering. Results: We have developed a novel algorithm, iPAC: identification of Protein Amino acid Clustering, for the identification of non-random somatic mutations in proteins that takes into account the three dimensional protein structure. By using the tertiary information, we are able to detect both novel clusters in proteins that are known to exhibit mutation clustering as well as identify clusters in proteins without evidence of clustering based on existing methods. For example, by combining the data in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer, our algorithm identifies new mutational clusters in well known cancer proteins such as KRAS and PI3KCa. Further, by utilizing the tertiary structure, our algorithm also identifies clusters in EGFR, EIF2AK2, and other proteins that are not identified by current methodology.

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