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Transient Protein-Protein Interactions (TPPI)

Presented By: Muhammad Shoaib Amjad 11 arid 3758 PhD Botany 1st Semester1ContentsProtein-protein interactionsTransient protein interactionTransient protein and drug interactionExperimental techniques used for detecting TPPIsList of databasesSummaryReferences2Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)Interaction of two proteinsPlay an essential role in the proper functioning of living cellsThe forces responsible for these interactions include Electrostatic forcesHydrogen bondsVan der waals forcesHydrophobic effects3Proteinprotein interactionsoccur when two or moreproteinsbind togetherThe understanding of these interactions will provide the clues to their biological function

3Types of Potien-Protien interactions PPIs can be classied on the bases of

CompositionHomo and hetero-oligomeric complexes Affinity Non-obligate and obligate complexes Stability/Life timeTransient and permanent

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Transient and PermanentPermanent Stable Irreversible Strong Long life Electrostatic force Example: / tubulin dimer and many enzyme-inhibitor complexes

6Transiet protein-protein interactions (TPPI)TPPIs are involved in many biological processes:Signal transduction Protein complexes or molecular machinery Protein carrier Protein modifications (phosphorylation)Hormone receptor bindingAllostery of enzymesInhibition of proteasesCorrection of misfold protein by chaperones

77TPPIs help to decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological functions, and enhance the approaches for drug discovery For example, signals from the exterior of a cell are mediated to the inside of that cell by protein-protein interactions of the signalling molecules In protein complex, members are linked by non-covalent interactions, they often activate or inhibit other members.a protein may be carrying another protein, for example, from cytoplasm to nucleus or vice versa in the case of the nuclear pore importins, a type of protein that moves other protein molecules into the nucleus by binding to a specific recognition sequence protein kinase will add a phosphate to a target protein Transient protein and drug interactionTransient interactions might be important indrug mechanisms in two ways: the drugs that act on TPPIsact transiently on their multiple targets A cancer-related example for the former typeof drugs is nutlins 8

Transient protein and drug interaction9NutlinsMDM2p53MDM2p53Tumor suppressed Experimental TechniquesYeast two-hybrid screens Mass spectrometry Intracellular localization of proteins with uorescence markers 10The Yeast Two-Hybrid System11Yeast Two-hybridResearchers insert a gene in yeast for a "bait" protein alongside DNA for half of an "activator" protein. The other half of the activator DNA is then inserted alongside DNA for random "prey" proteins. The yeast cells are then grown up and the proteins are allowed to interact. If bait and prey proteins bind, the two halves of the activator protein be close enough to work together to turn on another yeast gene that turns the cell blue, signaling a match.12How does it work?Uses yeast as a model for eukaryotic protein interactionsA library is screened or a protein is characterized using a bait constructInteractions are identified by the transcription of reporter genesPositives are selected using differential media13Reporter GeneDNA-BindingDomainBait ProteinPrey ProteinTranscriptionActivatingRegionDNA-Binding Site1415

What is the yeast two-hybrid system used for?Identifies novel protein-protein interactionsCan identify protein cascades Identifies mutations that affect protein-protein bindingCan identify interfering proteins in known interactions16Steps to Screen a LibraryCreate the Bait Plasmid Construct from the gene of interest and the DNA binding domain of Gal4 or LexA or other suitable domainTransform with the bait construct a yeast strain lacking the promoter for the reporter genes and select for transformed yeastTransform the yeast again with the library plasmidsSelect for interaction17Sequence analysisIsolate plasmid from yeast and transform E. coliPurify plasmid from E. coli and sequenceBlast sequence against database for known proteins or construct a possible protein sequence from the DNA sequence and compare to other proteins18Sample Plasmid19

From Golemis Lab HomepageReporter GenesLacZ reporter - Blue/White ScreeningHIS3 reporter - Screen on His+ mediaLEU2 reporter - Screen on Leu+ mediaADE2 reporter - Screen on Ade+ mediaURA3 reporter - Screen on Ura+ media 20False PositivesFalse positives are the largest problem with the yeast two-hybrid systemCan be caused by:Non-specific binding of the preyAbility to induce transcription without interaction with the bait (Majority of false positives)

21Elimination of False PositivesSequence AnalysisPlasmid Loss AssaysRetransformation of both strain with bait plasmid and strain without bait plasmidTest for interaction with an unrelated protein as baitTwo (or more) step selections22AdvantagesImmediate availability of the cloned gene of the interacting proteinOnly a single plasmid construction is requiredInteractions are detected in vivoWeak, transient interactions can be detectedCan accumulate a weak signal over time

23Examples of Uses of the Yeast Two-Hybrid SystemIdentification of caspase substratesInteraction of Calmodulin and L-Isoaspartyl MethyltransferaseGenetic characterization of mutations in E2F1 Peptide hormone-receptor interactionsPha-4 interactions in C. elegans24The Study of Protein-protein Interaction by Mass Spectrometry25

Direct analysis of large protein complexes (DALPC). In theflow diagram, the rectangles represent a strong cation exchange(SCX) and a reversed-phase (RP) liquid chromatography column.Typically, a denatured protein complex is digested with trypsin. Theacidified peptide mixture is loaded onto the SCX column. A discretefraction of peptides is displaced from the SCX column to the RPcolumn. This fraction is eluted from the RP column into the massspectrometer. This iterative process is repeated, obtaining thefragmentation patterns of peptides in the original peptide mixture.The program SEQUEST is used to correlate the tandem massspectra of fragmented peptides to amino acid sequences usingnucleotide databases6. The filtered outputs from the program areused to identify the proteins in the original protein complex.25Databases26

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28ELM is a computational biology resource for investigating candidate functional sites in eukarytic proteins. Functional sites which fit to the description "linear motif" are currently specified as patterns using Regular Expression rules. To improve the predictive power, context-based rules and logical filters are being developed and applied to reduce the amount of false positives.The current version of the ELM server provides core functionality including filtering by cell compartment, phylogeny, globular domain clash (using the SMART/Pfam databases) and structure. In addition, both the known ELM instances and any positionally conserved matches in sequences similar to ELM instance sequences are identified and displayed (seeELM instance mapper). Although the ELM resource contains a large collection of functional site motifs, the current set of motifs is not exhaustive.

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Our group is affiliated with the Departments ofEnvironmental HealthandBiomedical Engineering,University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, as well as with the Division ofBiomedical Informatics,Children's Hospital Research Foundation(see links below). Our research in the fields ofbioinformaticsandcomputational biologyis driven by both methodological developments and applications, spanning a wide range of projects that deal with various data streams and problems arising in the context of genomics, proteomics and biomedical research. Some examples includeprotein structure and function prediction,protein-protein interactionsand therecognition of functional sitesin proteins,gene (genome) annotation, and the identification ofpredictive fingerprintsof disease states, especially in the context of large SNP genotyping. We rely heavily onpattern recognitionandmachine learningapproaches to develop improved and/or tailored methods for the above applications. In collaboration with biologists, biochemists and physicians, we are applying standard and our own methods to a particular problem at hand.

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30The AMS tool allows for identification of PTM (post-translational modification) sites in proteins. The local sequence preferences of short segments around PTM residues are described here as SVM based LFM (linear functional motifs).We train support vector machine(SVM)for each type of PTM separately on proteins of the Swiss-Prot database (version 42.0) using two datasets of short sequence segments:positives and negatives. The set of positives is created from experimentally annotated sequence segments (9-amino acids long) from proteins known to include PTM site. The dataset of negative cases is build from short sequence segments not annotated in Swiss-Prot database to include any type of PTM site. These two datasets are then projected as sets of points into a single multidimensional space. For this purpose we used genericprojectionmethods of short segments and additional combinations of these. The SVM constructs the separation plane in the multidimensional space between the sets of positives and negatives.The identification of PTM sites in a query protein is performed as follows. The query protein is divided into overlapping sequence segments. Two search procedures can be used to annotate these segments: identity scan or SVM classification. The first method identifies those segments that are identical in terms of sequence to any positive instance from the database. The second method uses SVM to classify the query proteins segments into two groups: potential PTM sites and negatives. The list of PTM sites found in the protein by any projection method is then returned to the user.The performance of SVM models is described bythe recall R and the precision P. The recall R value measures the percentage of correct predictions (the probability of correct prediction), whereas precision P gives the percentage of observed positives that are correctly predicted (the measure of the reliability of positive instances prediction). These measures of accuracy are calculated separately for each type of PTM using the leave-one-out procedure.The typical recall value is around 30%, and the precision P is over 70% for majority of PTM.

30SummaryThe components of transient complexes associate and dissociate rapidly while transiently interacting with each other to function dynamically in crucial regulatory and signaling pathways. The identication and analysis of these complexes have become more manageable with the emerging sensitive and high-resolution experimental techniques accompanied by the high-throughput computational methods.31As the coverage of these techniques increase, they can provide a good template to understand and design new transient complexes. An example for such advanced techniques is, PRISM, which uses available transient interactions as a template set and searches structural and evolutionary similarities between the template set and the target proteins to be predicted.32ReferencesJames R. Perkins, I. Diboun, B.H. Dessailly, J. G. Lees and C. Orengo. 2010. Transient Protein- Protein Interactions: Structural Functional And Network Properties. Cell:1233-1244. Saliha E. A. O., H. B. Engin, A. Gursoy and O. Keskin. 2011. Transient Protein- Protein Interactions. Protein Interaction Designed And selection: 1-14Costel C. D., K. Deinhardt, G. Zhang, H. S. Cardasis and M. V. C.A. Neubert. 2011. Identifying transient proteinprotein interactions in EphB2 signaling by blue native PAGE and mass spectrometry Proteomics J:11, 45144528Lakshmipuram S. S., R. M. Bhaskara, J. Sharma and N. Srinivasan. 2012. Roles of residues in the interface of transient protein-protein complexes before complexation. Scientific reports: 334.3334THANK YOU