PSBinder: A Web Service for Predicting Polystyrene Surface-Binding Peptides

Biomed Res Int. 2017:2017:5761517. doi: 10.1155/2017/5761517. Epub 2017 Dec 27.

Abstract

Polystyrene surface-binding peptides (PSBPs) are useful as affinity tags to build a highly effective ELISA system. However, they are also a quite common type of target-unrelated peptides (TUPs) in the panning of phage-displayed random peptide library. As TUP, PSBP will mislead the analysis of panning results if not identified. Therefore, it is necessary to find a way to quickly and easily foretell if a peptide is likely to be a PSBP or not. In this paper, we describe PSBinder, a predictor based on SVM. To our knowledge, it is the first web server for predicting PSBP. The SVM model was built with the feature of optimized dipeptide composition and 87.02% (MCC = 0.74; AUC = 0.91) of peptides were correctly classified by fivefold cross-validation. PSBinder can be used to exclude highly possible PSBP from biopanning results or to find novel candidates for polystyrene affinity tags. Either way, it is valuable for biotechnology community.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence / genetics
  • Biophysical Phenomena
  • Internet
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Polystyrenes / chemistry*
  • Protein Binding
  • Signal Transduction
  • Software*
  • Surface Properties

Substances

  • Peptides
  • Polystyrenes