UCSC BME 220 Topics

Protein Bioinformatics, Spring 2005

(Last Update: 17:15 PDT, 24 May 2005 )

Topics

Here are some topics we would like to cover, not necessarily in order. We will probably cover the first few topics fairly thoroughly, and may not get to the last few topics at all. Topics actually covered, by date:


datetopicpapers to read (see below)
29 Marchlogisitics and overview of topics for quarter
31 Marchbond angles and torsion angles (how to compute), rotamers, rotamer library, undertaker's 9-d Gaussian mixture used in place of rotamer library, intro to rigid transforms
5 Aprilquaternions and rigid transformations
7 April Guest Lecture: Marshall Bern (PARC) Fun with mass spec
12 April (first) Grant Thiltgen: Protein blocks http://www.ebgm.jussieu.fr/~debrevern/PBs/ There are several papers on protein blocks and we should read at least the first one: Bayesian probabilistic approach for predicting backbone structures in terms of protein blocks A.G. de Brevern, C. Etchebest, and S. Hazout. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics (2000), 41:271-287. PDF from author's website
12 April (second) Nathan Bahr:evaluation of local structure Hidden Markov models that use predicted local structure for fold recognition: alphabets of backbone geometry Rachel Karchin, Melissa Cline, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, and Kevin Karplus. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics (2003) 51(4):504-514. preprint from authors' website
14 AprilKevin away
19 April (first) Ron Chao: DALI Protein Structure Comparison by Alignment of Distance Matrices Liisa Holm and Chris Sander. Journal of Molecular Biology (1993) 233:123-138.
19 April (second) Wing Wong: VAST Surprising similarities in structure comparison J. Gilbrat, T. Madej, and S. Bryant. Current Opinion in Structural Biology (1996) 6:377-385.
21 April Project Proposal due
21 April (first) Alex Williams: FATCAT Database searching by flexible protein structure alignment Yuzhen Ye and Adam Godzik. Protein Science (2004), 13:1841-1850.
21 April (second) Tim Dreszer: contact maps Recovery of protein structure from contact maps M. Vendruscolo, E. Kussell, and E. Domany. Folding and Design (1997) 2:295-306.
26 April Homework 1 due
26 April (first) David Ng: Rosetta Assembly of Protein Tertiary Structures from Fragments with Similar Local Sequences Using Simulated Annealing and {Bayesian} Scoring Functions Kim T. Simons, Charles Kooperberg, Enoch Huang, and David Baker. Journal of Molecular Biology (1997) 268:209-225.
26 April (second) Craig Lowe: TOP7 Design of a novel globular protein fold with atomic-level accuracy. Kuhlman B, Dantas G, Ireton GC, Varani G, Stoddard BL, Baker D. Science. 2003 Nov 21;302(5649):1364-1368. PMID: 14631033
28 April (first) Courtney Onodera: Psipred Protein secondary structure prediction based on position-specific scoring matrices D.T. Jones. Journal of Molecular Biology (1999) 292:195-202.
28 April (second) Sol Katzman: predict-2nd program draft of paper
3 May (first) Lam Vu: SAM-Txx casp4
casp5
casp6
3 May (second) Kevin Karplus: protein design by backpropagation (proposal)
5 May (first) Nathan Bahr: MUSCLE multiple aligner Edgar, Robert C. (2004), MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput, Nucleic Acids Research 32(5), 1792-97

Edgar, R.C. (2004) MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity. BMC Bioinformatics 5(1): 113.

5 May (second) Kevin Karplus: undertaker
10 May (first) Jes Frellsen: TOPS

D. Gilbert, D. Westhead, and J. Viksna (2003). Techniques for comparison, pattern matching and pattern discovery: From sequences to protein topology, in "Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods in Bioinformatics", Paolo Frasconi and Ron Shamir (Eds), IOS Press, ISBN 1-58603-294-1, pp 128-147. (PDF)

(some material from) Pattern matching and pattern discovery algorithms for protein topologies Juris Viksna and David Gilbert. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: First International Workshop, WABI 2001 Proceedings, LNCS 2149 pp 98-111, ISBN 3-540-42516-0, (pre-publication version)

10 May (second) Ron Chao: FFAS Comparison of sequence profiles. Strategies for structural predictions using sequence information. Rychlewski, L., Jaroszewski, L., Li, W. & Godzik, A. Protein Science (2000), 9:232-241.
12 May (first) Sol Katzman: Hellinga's protein design Computational design of receptors for an organophosphate surrogate of the nerve agent soman Malin Allert, Shahir S. Rizk, Loren L. Looger, and Homme W. Hellinga PNAS 2004 101: 7907-7912
12 May (second) Craig Lowe: Skolnick and Zhang Tertiary structure predictions on a comprehensive benchmark of medium to large size proteins. Zhang Y, Skolnick J. Biophysics Journal 2004 Oct;87(4):2647-55.
17 May (first) Courtney Onodera: folding rates The topomer search model: A simple, quantitative theory of two-state protein folding kinetics Dmitrii Makarov and Kevin Plaxco. Protein Science (2003), 12:17-26.

Using Protein Folding Rates to Test Protein Folding Theories Blake Gillespie and Kevin Plaxco. Annu. Rev. Biochem. (2004), 73:837-839.

17 May (second) David Ng: force fields Empirical Force Fields for Biological Macromolecules: Overview and Issues. A.D. MacKerell, Jr. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2004 Oct;25(13):1584-604. PMID: 15264253

Force Fields for Protein Simulation, Jay W. Ponder and David A. Case, Advances in Protein Chemistry, 2003;66:27-85. PMID: 14631816.

Energy functions for protein design, D. Benjamin Gordon, Shannon A. Marshall, and Stephen L. Mayo, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1999, 9:509-513. PMID: 10449371.

GROMACS User Manual, Version 3.2,

19 May (first) Grant Thiltgen: hydrogen bonds The Hydrogen Bond in the Solid State Thomas Steiner. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 2002, 41(1), 49-76.
19 May (second) Tim Dreszer: decoy sets Protein Decoy Sets for Evaluating Energy Functions Gilis, Dimitri. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics ISSN 0739-1102. 21(6):725-854. 2004.
24 May Progress report due
24 May (first) Alex Williams: directed evolution of proteins Totally In Vitro Protein Selection Using mRNA-Protein Fusions and Ribosome Display. Richard W. Roberts. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 3, 268-273 (1999).

Phage Display Smith G.P. and Petrenko V.A. Chemical Reviews, V. 97, N2, p. 391-410 (1997).

24 May (second) Lam Vu: unfolding pathways "New view" of protein folding reconciled with the old through multiple unfolding simulations. Lazaridis T, Karplus M. Science. 1997 Dec 12;278(5345):1928-31.
26 May Class canceled on vote of students.
Students interested in poster design should attend Karplus lab meeting at 1:00pm on WED 25 May.
31 May Jes Frellsen: 1d-to-3d Recoverable one-dimensional encoding of three-dimensional protein structures Akira R. Kinjo and Ken Nishikawa Bioinformatics 2005 21: 2167-2170.
2 JuneGrad Research Symposium 11-1 Graduate Student Commons
2 JuneUndergrad Research Symposium 2-4 Thimann Courtyard
7 JunePoster Session 4-7 p.m. CANCELLED
Instead of having a poster session during exam week, as I had originally planned, I want all the projects to be presented at either the Grad Research Symposium or the Undergrad Research Symposium on the last Thursday of classes. Posters can be printed at the Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory in Earth and Marine Sciences. I will try to get a Departmental account to charge them to, but if necessary, I can charge them to either my research grant or a tiny slush fund I have that is unconstrained.

Registration is required as soon as possible for both events. See http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/gradsymposium.html for information about the graduate research symposium. Deadline for registration is Monday May 16.

Applications for the undergraduate one are available to pick up at the School of Engineering Undergraduate Advising Office and are due by April 15th.

Reading List

These papers are ones that have not (yet) been selected for journal club presentation. All students are expected to read the papers that get assigned on the topic list above, whether they are presented in lecture or journal club.

Protein Structure

TOPS diagrams
D.R. Westhead, T.W.F. Slidel, T.P.J. Flores, and J.M. Thornton (1999). Protein structural topology: automated analysis, diagrammatic representation and database searching. Protein Sci 8, 897-904. (PubMed)

Secondary Structure Definition

DSSP
A dictionary of protein secondary structure Wolfgang Kabsch and Chris Sander. Biopolymers (1983) 22:2577-2637. PDF from journal website

Stride
Knowledge-based Protein Secondary Structure Assignment Dimitrij Frishman and Patrick Argos. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics (1995) 23:566-579. PDF from journal website

HMMSTR
HMMSTR: a hidden Markov model for Local Sequence-Structure Correlations in Proteins C. Bystroff, V. Thorsson, and D. Baker. Journal of Molecular Biology (Aug. 2000) 301(1):173-190. PDF from the authors' website

Secondary Structure Prediction

PhD
PHD: predicting one-dimensional protein structure by profile-based neural networks Burkhart Rost. Methods in Enzymology (1996) 2666:525-539.

EVA for evaluation

Structural Superposition

Optimum superposition
Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions Berthold K. P. Horn Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics and image science (Apr 1987) 4(4):629-642

CE
Protein structure alignment by incremental combinatorial extension (CE) of the optimal path I. N. Shindyalov and P. E. Bourne. Protein Engineering (1998) 11(9):739-747.

MAMMOTH
MAMMOTH (Matching Molecular Models Obtained from THeory): An automated method for protein model comparison A.R. Ortiz, C.E.M Strauss, and O. Olmea. Protein Science(2002) 11:2606-2621.

Fold-recognition and threading

some meta-predictor (which? 3D jury?)

some traditional pairwise scoring threader (which?)

LiveBench for evaluation

Contact prediction

Faricelli?

Casadio?

Rost?

Conformation generation

undertaker

Other fragment-based methods.

traditional molecular dynamics?

Force fields (theoretical)

Gromacs?

Amber?

CHARMM?

which solvation models?

Force fields and cost functions (empirical)

Protein design

sequence-recovery tests?

Protein folding (kinetics)

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