Predicting recombinant protein expression experiments using molecular dynamics simulation

Title
Predicting recombinant protein expression experiments using molecular dynamics simulation
Publication Date
2015-01-06
Author(s)
Schaller, Andrea
Connors, Natalie K
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-4757
Email: nconnor2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nconnor2
Oelmeier, Stefan A
Hubbuch, Jürgen
Middelberg, Anton P J
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.ces.2014.09.044
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/58844
Abstract

Soluble expression of de novo-designed proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) remains empirical. For given experimental conditions expression success is determined in part by protein primary sequence. This has been previously explored with varying success using a variety of statistical solubility prediction tools though without taking fold stability into account. In the present study, the three-dimensional structure of proteins in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is used to predict expression as a new approach with a set of four-helix bundles. Stability-related parameters for ten structures were determined in a thermal unfolding MD simulation and used to build statistical models with a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The most accurate models were identified by their performance on five independent four-helix bundle sequences. The final model provided accurate classification prediction for this test set and was successfully applied in a model challenge with two newly designed sequences.

Link
Citation
Chemical Engineering Science, v.121, p. 340-350
ISSN
1873-4405
0009-2509
Start page
340
End page
350

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