Characterization of domain-peptide interaction interface: prediction of SH3 domain-mediated protein-protein interaction network in yeast by generic structure-based models

J Proteome Res. 2012 May 4;11(5):2982-95. doi: 10.1021/pr3000688. Epub 2012 Apr 9.

Abstract

Determination of the binding specificity of SH3 domain, a peptide recognition module (PRM), is important to understand their biological functions and reconstruct the SH3-mediated protein-protein interaction network. In the present study, the SH3-peptide interactions for both class I and II SH3 domains were characterized by the intermolecular residue-residue interaction network. We developed generic MIEC-SVM models to infer SH3 domain-peptide recognition specificity that achieved satisfactory prediction accuracy. By investigating the domain-peptide recognition mechanisms at the residue level, we found that the class-I and class-II binding peptides have different binding modes even though they occupy the same binding site of SH3. Furthermore, we predicted the potential binding partners of SH3 domains in the yeast proteome and constructed the SH3-mediated protein-protein interaction network. Comparison with the experimentally determined interactions confirmed the effectiveness of our approach. This study showed that our sophisticated computational approach not only provides a powerful platform to decipher protein recognition code at the molecular level but also allows identification of peptide-mediated protein interactions at a proteomic scale. We believe that such an approach is general to be applicable to other domain-peptide interactions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Binding Sites
  • Computer Simulation
  • Fungal Proteins / chemistry*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Multiprotein Complexes / chemistry*
  • Protein Interaction Maps*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / chemistry*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Substrate Specificity
  • Support Vector Machine
  • src Homology Domains*

Substances

  • Fungal Proteins
  • Multiprotein Complexes