Knowledge of Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) can give us new insights into molecular mechanisms and properties of the cell. In this paper, we propose a novel domain-based kernel method to predict PPIs. A new kernel that measures the similarity between protein pairs based on a new feature representation is developed and applied to a large scale PPI database. Experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness. Furthermore, we evaluate the problem of cross-species PPI prediction and the effect of the number of negative samples on the performance of PPI predictions, which are two fundamental problems in most in silico PPI methods.
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BMC Bioinformatics
January 2025
Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG), Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th 10 St, Miami, 33199, USA.
Background: While protein-protein docking is fundamental to our understanding of how proteins interact, scoring protein-protein complex conformations is a critical component of successful docking programs. Without accurate and efficient scoring functions to differentiate between native and non-native binding complexes, the accuracy of current docking tools cannot be guaranteed. Although many innovative scoring functions have been proposed, a good scoring function for docking remains elusive.
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January 2025
State Key Lab of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, 311400, China.
Establishing the protein-protein interaction network sheds light on functional genomics studies by providing insights from known counterparts. However, the rice interactome has barely been studied due to the lack of massive, reliable, and cost-effective methodologies. Here, the development of a barcode-indexed PCR coupled with HiFi long-read sequencing pipeline (BIP-seq) is reported for high throughput Protein Protein Interaction (PPI)identification.
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January 2025
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address:
Evidence suggests that bats are important hosts of filoviruses, yet the specific species involved remain largely unidentified. Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) is an essential entry receptor, with amino acid variations influencing viral susceptibility and species-specific tropism. Herein, we conducted combinatorial binding studies with seven filovirus glycoproteins (GPs) and NPC1 orthologs from 81 bat species.
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January 2025
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China.
Background: The emergence of new molecular targeted drugs marks a breakthrough in asthma treatment, particularly for severe cases. Yet, options for moderate-to-severe asthma treatment remain limited, highlighting the urgent need for novel therapeutic drug targets. In this study, we aimed to identify new treatment targets for asthma using the Mendelian randomization method and large-scale genome-wide association data (GWAS).
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January 2025
Department of colorectal surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
This study analyzed targeted sequencing data from 6530 tissue samples from patients with metastatic Chinese colorectal cancer (CRC) to identify low mutation frequency and subgroup-specific driver genes, using three algorithms for overall CRC as well as across different clinicopathological subgroups. We analyzed 425 cancer-related genes, identifying 101 potential driver genes, including 36 novel to CRC. Notably, some genes demonstrated subgroup specificity; for instance, ERBB4 was found as a male-specific driver gene and mutations of ERBB4 only influenced the prognosis of male patients with CRC.
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