Catharina Larissa, Lima Carlyle Ribeiro, Franca Alexander, Guimarães Ana Carolina Ramos, Alves-Ferreira Marcelo, Tuffery Pierre, Derreumaux Philippe, Carels Nicolas
Laboratório de Modelagem de Sistemas Biológicos, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Inovação em Doenças de Populações Negligenciadas (INCT-IDPN), Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico em Saúde (CDTS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (UPR 9080), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 7, Paris, France.
Bioinform Biol Insights. 2017 Jun 12;11:1177932217712471. doi: 10.1177/1177932217712471. eCollection 2017.
We present an approach for detecting enzymes that are specific of compared with and provide targets that may assist research in drug development. This approach is based on traditional techniques of sequence homology comparison by similarity search and Markov modeling; it integrates the characterization of enzymatic functionality, secondary and tertiary protein structures, protein domain architecture, and metabolic environment. From 67 enzymes represented by 42 enzymatic activities classified by AnEnPi (Analogous Enzymes Pipeline) as specific for compared with , only 40 (23 Enzyme Commission [EC] numbers) could actually be considered as strictly specific of and 27 enzymes (19 EC numbers) were disregarded for having ambiguous homologies or analogies with . Among the 40 strictly specific enzymes, we identified sterol 24-C-methyltransferase, pyruvate phosphate dikinase, trypanothione synthetase, and RNA-editing ligase as 4 essential enzymes for that may serve as targets for drug development.
我们提出了一种检测与[具体物质]相比具有特异性的酶的方法,并提供了可能有助于药物研发研究的靶点。该方法基于通过相似性搜索和马尔可夫建模进行序列同源性比较的传统技术;它整合了酶功能、蛋白质二级和三级结构、蛋白质结构域架构以及代谢环境的表征。在由AnEnPi(类似酶管道)分类为与[具体物质]相比具有特异性的42种酶活性所代表的67种酶中,只有40种(23个酶委员会[EC]编号)实际上可被视为严格特异性针对[具体物质]的,27种酶(19个EC编号)因与[具体物质]存在模糊的同源性或类似性而被排除。在这40种严格特异性酶中,我们确定了固醇24 - C - 甲基转移酶、丙酮酸磷酸二激酶、锥虫硫醇合成酶和RNA编辑连接酶为[具体物质]的4种关键酶,它们可能作为药物研发的靶点。