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== Database Searches == |
== Database Searches == |
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− | FASTA, BLAST and PSI-BLAST were run against the non-redundant database (NR). HHsearch was run through the web interface<ref>http://toolkit.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/hhpred</ref> |
+ | FASTA, BLAST and PSI-BLAST were run against the non-redundant database (NR). HHsearch was run through the web interface<ref>http://toolkit.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/hhpred</ref> against the PDB and Interpro database. The following parameter settings were used: |
* BLAST: <code>blastall -p blastp -i refSeq.fasta -d /data/blast/nr/nr > blastp</code> with refSeq.fasta being the file containing the reference sequence. |
* BLAST: <code>blastall -p blastp -i refSeq.fasta -d /data/blast/nr/nr > blastp</code> with refSeq.fasta being the file containing the reference sequence. |
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* HHsearch produced 33 alignments for the search against PDB and 74 alignments for search against Interpro. |
* HHsearch produced 33 alignments for the search against PDB and 74 alignments for search against Interpro. |
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− | FASTA shows the highest number of alignments, probably due to the fact, that no e-value cutoff was chosen. Contrary, hhsearch has very few alignments. This could be ascribed to the fact |
+ | FASTA shows the highest number of alignments, probably due to the fact, that no e-value cutoff was chosen. Contrary, hhsearch has very few alignments. This could be ascribed to the fact that completely different databases were used for the alignments and Interpro and pdb just did not have as much homolguous sequences as the nr database. This is also supported by the benchmark with HSSP (see next section). Another interesting fact is that the results of PSI-BLAST depended for our parameter setting only on the number of iterations. Ragarding the results for the number of iterations, both e-value cutoffs yielded - except of some single exceptions the same aligned target sequences from the database - the same hits. |
===== Overlap between methods ===== |
===== Overlap between methods ===== |
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[[Image:overlap.jpeg|thumb|right| The number of shared target sequences between two methods is shown in the upper panel (self overlaps not shown). The lower panel depicts how many percent of the aligned target sequences of a given method (x-axis) are shared with the other methods.]] |
[[Image:overlap.jpeg|thumb|right| The number of shared target sequences between two methods is shown in the upper panel (self overlaps not shown). The lower panel depicts how many percent of the aligned target sequences of a given method (x-axis) are shared with the other methods.]] |
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− | The results of the four different PSI-BLAST runs show the highest overlap. The additional iterations find more related sequences and yield a higher number of alignments. Interestingly, almost all BLAST hits overlap with the PSI-BLAST and FASTA results. The overlaps of the searches |
+ | The results of the four different PSI-BLAST runs show the highest overlap. The additional iterations find more related sequences and yield a higher number of alignments. Interestingly, almost all BLAST hits overlap with the PSI-BLAST and FASTA results. The overlaps of the searches show that the number of hits highly depends on the database. hhpred1 does not have a good overlap with any of the other methods, but hhpred2 shares a significant part of its results with PSI-BLAST. |
===== Scores and identity of aligned residues ===== |
===== Scores and identity of aligned residues ===== |
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===== HSSP ===== |
===== HSSP ===== |
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− | HSSP is a database contains for each protein in the PDB database |
+ | HSSP is a database which contains information about homologuous protein sequences for each protein in the PDB database, which are very likely to have a similar structure as the query. HSSP uses a position-weighted dynamic programming method for sequence profile alignment of PDB entries against the Swissprot database. Therefore the database can also be used to infer homology based secondary structure predictions. <br/> |
− | Now we want use the homology information in HSSP to benchmark our alignment results. The table below depicts the recall and precision of homologs in HSSP of our query by our alignments. FASTA shows the highest recall (92 %), which could lead to the misleading interpretation, that this method performs best. The high value can be ascribed to the fact, that FASTA reports a very high number of alignments - with a lot of false positive - and a selection of true homologs from this results without prior knowledge is quite challenging. This is |
+ | Now we want to use the homology information in HSSP to benchmark our alignment results. The table below depicts the recall and precision of homologs in HSSP of our query by our alignments. FASTA shows the highest recall (92 %), which could lead to the misleading interpretation, that this method performs best. The high value can be ascribed to the fact, that FASTA reports a very high number of alignments - with a lot of false positive - and a selection of true homologs from this results without prior knowledge is quite challenging. This is reflected by the precision of the method, which is only 23 %, i.e. only 23 % of the hits in fasta are true homologs regarding the HSSP annotation. <br/> |
BLAST perfoms a little bit better than FASTA and PSI-BLAST perfoms best. The latter shows a recall of around 20 % - which is still quite low - but a precision of 65 %, i.e. 64 % of the hits using the PSI-BLAST method are true homologs. <br/> |
BLAST perfoms a little bit better than FASTA and PSI-BLAST perfoms best. The latter shows a recall of around 20 % - which is still quite low - but a precision of 65 %, i.e. 64 % of the hits using the PSI-BLAST method are true homologs. <br/> |
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As hhpred was searched against other databases, which contained much less entries than the NR-database used for the other methods, it is not directly comparable to the other results. It performs much worse when hits are compared to all HSSP homologs. But if we only take HSSP homologs, that are contained in the PDB hhpred perfoms best. It even recalls all 12 HSSP "pdb-homologs". |
As hhpred was searched against other databases, which contained much less entries than the NR-database used for the other methods, it is not directly comparable to the other results. It performs much worse when hits are compared to all HSSP homologs. But if we only take HSSP homologs, that are contained in the PDB hhpred perfoms best. It even recalls all 12 HSSP "pdb-homologs". |
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== Multiple Alignments == |
== Multiple Alignments == |
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=== Cobalt === |
=== Cobalt === |
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+ | Cobalt is a progressive Multiple Alignment Tool which uses a collection of pairwise constraints which are derived from different databases. To reduce computation time, sequence clusters are formed and then only one sequence out of the cluster is used for finding conserverd domains and motif matches. <ref name="papadopoulos2007">Papadopoulos JS and Agarwala R (2007) COBALT: constraint-based alignment tool for multiple protein sequences, Bioinformatics 23:1073-79</ref> |
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==== Command ==== |
==== Command ==== |
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<code>time /home/student/Downloads/ncbi-cobalt-2.0.1/cobalt -i MSA_seqs.fasta -norps T > alignments/MSA_cobalt.aln</code> |
<code>time /home/student/Downloads/ncbi-cobalt-2.0.1/cobalt -i MSA_seqs.fasta -norps T > alignments/MSA_cobalt.aln</code> |
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=== ClustalW === |
=== ClustalW === |
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+ | ClustalW is a Multiple Alignment Tool that uses a guide tree to build a multiple sequence alignment. The guide tree is constructed using Neighbor-Joining. |
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+ | <ref name="larkin2007">Larkin MA, Blackshields G, Brown NP, Chenna R, McGettigan PA, McWilliam H, Valentin F, Wallace IM, Wilm A, Lopez R, Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Higgins DG. |
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+ | (2007). Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics, 23, 2947-2948. </ref> |
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==== Command ==== |
==== Command ==== |
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<code>time clustalw</code> |
<code>time clustalw</code> |
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=== Muscle === |
=== Muscle === |
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+ | Muscle is a Multiple Alignment Tool that builds a guide tree by an approximation algorithm. Then the sequences are progressively aligned. The alignment is then refined using the calculated pairwise distances. As final step a tree-dependent refinement takes place where the tree is partitioned in two partitions and the profiles for the two subsets are again aligned. |
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+ | <ref name="edgar2004">Edgar, R.C. (2004) MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput.Nucleic Acids Res. 32(5):1792-1797</ref> |
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==== Command ==== |
==== Command ==== |
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<code>time muscle -in MSA_seqs.fasta -out MSA_muscle.aln</code> |
<code>time muscle -in MSA_seqs.fasta -out MSA_muscle.aln</code> |
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=== T-Coffee === |
=== T-Coffee === |
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+ | T-Coffee is a Multiple Alignment Tool that build a MSA progressively. Therefor it uses an 'extended library' where triplet information is saved. Also surrounding information from the MSA is used for refinement. <ref name="notredame2000">T-Coffee: A novel method for multiple sequence alignments. |
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+ | Notredame,Higgins,Heringa,JMB,302(205-217)2000</ref> |
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==== standard parameters ==== |
==== standard parameters ==== |
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===== Command ===== |
===== Command ===== |
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==== 3d-coffee ==== |
==== 3d-coffee ==== |
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+ | 3d-coffee is a variant of t-coffee where structural information is used to build a better MSA. <ref name="poirot2004">3DCoffee@igs: a web server for combining sequences and structures into a multiple sequence alignment. Poirot O, Suhre K, Abergel C, O'Toole E, Notredame C. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W37-40.</ref> |
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===== Command ===== |
===== Command ===== |
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<code>time t_coffee MSA_seqs.fasta -mode expresso -pdb_type dn</code> |
<code>time t_coffee MSA_seqs.fasta -mode expresso -pdb_type dn</code> |
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+ | === Summary === |
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− | ==== Gaps |
+ | ==== Gaps ==== |
For each method used in this section, the number of gapped columns (a column is defined as gapped, if it contains at least one gap), the number of conserved columns (all entries in the row have the same amino acid) and the alignment length were calculated. |
For each method used in this section, the number of gapped columns (a column is defined as gapped, if it contains at least one gap), the number of conserved columns (all entries in the row have the same amino acid) and the alignment length were calculated. |
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− | ClustalW yields the most compact, i.e. shortest multiple sequence alignment (MSA). It exhibits the lowermost overal number of gaps and number of gaps within the secondary structure of the human Arylsulfatase A. The number of 100% conserved columns consequently decreases a bit in comparison to the other methods. Further on the JalView representation shows the most homogenuous alignment of conserved blocks. |
+ | ClustalW yields the most compact, i.e. shortest multiple sequence alignment (MSA). It exhibits the lowermost overal number of gaps and number of gaps within the secondary structure of the human Arylsulfatase A. The number of 100% conserved columns consequently decreases a bit in comparison to the other methods. Further on the JalView representation shows the most homogenuous alignment of conserved blocks. |
==== Conservation of active sites ==== |
==== Conservation of active sites ==== |
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As shown in the table above, by only looking at important sites, the alignments are very similar, except the muscle-alignment. So the important sites are really well-conserved also in more distant related proteins. |
As shown in the table above, by only looking at important sites, the alignments are very similar, except the muscle-alignment. So the important sites are really well-conserved also in more distant related proteins. |
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+ | ==== Computation Time ==== |
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+ | The computation time differed significantelly between the different programs. 3d-coffee took the most time (as expected) while Cobalt and Muscle where the fastest programs on our testset. |
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+ | [[Image:CompTimesMSA.PNG|thumb|Plot of computation times by differenet MSA-programs on ARSA]] |
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== References == |
== References == |
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<references /> |
<references /> |
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+ | [[Category : Metachromatic_Leukodystrophy 2011]] |
Latest revision as of 13:59, 29 March 2012
Contents
Sequence
>sp|P15289|ARSA_HUMAN Arylsulfatase A OS=Homo sapiens GN=ARSA PE=1 SV=3
MGAPRSLLLALAAGLAVARPPNIVLIFADDLGYGDLGCYGHPSSTTPNLDQLAAGGLRFT
DFYVPVSLCTPSRAALLTGRLPVRMGMYPGVLVPSSRGGLPLEEVTVAEVLAARGYLTGM
AGKWHLGVGPEGAFLPPHQGFHRFLGIPYSHDQGPCQNLTCFPPATPCDGGCDQGLVPIP
LLANLSVEAQPPWLPGLEARYMAFAHDLMADAQRQDRPFFLYYASHHTHYPQFSGQSFAE
RSGRGPFGDSLMELDAAVGTLMTAIGDLGLLEETLVIFTADNGPETMRMSRGGCSGLLRC
GKGTTYEGGVREPALAFWPGHIAPGVTHELASSLDLLPTLAALAGAPLPNVTLDGFDLSP
LLLGTGKSPRQSLFFYPSYPDEVRGVFAVRTGKYKAHFFTQGSAHSDTTADPACHASSSL
TAHEPPLLYDLSKDPGENYNLLGGVAGATPEVLQALKQLQLLKAQLDAAVTFGPSQVARG
EDPALQICCHPGCTPRPACCHCPDPHA
Source
Database Searches
FASTA, BLAST and PSI-BLAST were run against the non-redundant database (NR). HHsearch was run through the web interface<ref>http://toolkit.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/hhpred</ref> against the PDB and Interpro database. The following parameter settings were used:
- BLAST:
blastall -p blastp -i refSeq.fasta -d /data/blast/nr/nr > blastp
with refSeq.fasta being the file containing the reference sequence. - PSI-BLAST was run with the following parameter settings:
- e-value cutoff 0.005, 3 iterations (Psi-blast1)
- e-value cutoff 0.005, 5 iterations (Psi-blast2)
- e-value cutoff 10E-6, 3 iterations (Psi-blast3)
- e-value cutoff 10E-6, 5 iterations (Psi-blast4)
blastpgp -i refSeq.fasta -d /data/blast/nr/nr -e"e-value" -j "#iterations" > psiblast_"e-value"_"#iterations"
- HHsearch: We used the online version of hhPred <ref>http://toolkit.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/hhpred</ref> with default parameters. One search was performed against PDB and one against Interpro.
Alignment results
We wrote a perl script to parse the output files of the individual programs and extracted identifier, alignment score and the percentage of identical residues within the alignment.
Mapping of identifier
The non-redundant database contains entries from various databases, including RefSeq, PDB, PIR, PRF, GenBank and Swiss-Prot. In order to compare results of NR database searches with the results of the HHpred searches, a mapping of the IDs is necessary. Furthermore, the entries in HSSP - which is used later to benchmark the alignment results - contains only references to the UniProtKB accession number (ACCNUM). To overcome this problem we downloaded a mapping table between the IDs from <ref>http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/idmapping.shtml</ref>. This table was used - together with some short perl scripts - to map IDs between the databases and compare the results.
Summary of database searches
In this section, we give a short summary description of the search results of the individual programs and the compare them to each other.
Comparison of the methods
- FASTA yielded with 4733 alignments the highest number of hits.
- BLAST produced 252 alignments.
- PSI-BLAST
- Using an E-value cutoff of 0.005, PSI-BLAST produced 756 alignments for 3 iterations and 1257 for 5 iterations.
- Using an E-value cutoff of 10E-6, PSI-BLAST produced 756 alignments for 3 iterations and 1257 for 5 iterations.
- HHsearch produced 33 alignments for the search against PDB and 74 alignments for search against Interpro.
FASTA shows the highest number of alignments, probably due to the fact, that no e-value cutoff was chosen. Contrary, hhsearch has very few alignments. This could be ascribed to the fact that completely different databases were used for the alignments and Interpro and pdb just did not have as much homolguous sequences as the nr database. This is also supported by the benchmark with HSSP (see next section). Another interesting fact is that the results of PSI-BLAST depended for our parameter setting only on the number of iterations. Ragarding the results for the number of iterations, both e-value cutoffs yielded - except of some single exceptions the same aligned target sequences from the database - the same hits.
Overlap between methods
The results of the four different PSI-BLAST runs show the highest overlap. The additional iterations find more related sequences and yield a higher number of alignments. Interestingly, almost all BLAST hits overlap with the PSI-BLAST and FASTA results. The overlaps of the searches show that the number of hits highly depends on the database. hhpred1 does not have a good overlap with any of the other methods, but hhpred2 shares a significant part of its results with PSI-BLAST.
Scores and identity of aligned residues
In general, the identity of aligned residues is very low, i.e. only very few highly similar hits are detected by the methods. These high scoring matches mainly represent homologs of Arylsulfatase A. This can be seen in the table of sequences which were chosen for the multiple sequence alignment. The majority of hits from an identity range of 99-90% and 89-60% are annotated as Arylsulfatases or Arylsulfatase A. Lowering the identity cutoff yields an increasing number of Sulfatases, which might be more distantly related to our query sequence.
The alignment scores show a very similar distribution. Lowest scores are produced by FASTA, which reflects the low sensitivity of the method for the detection of true homologs. A lot of these matches might be classified as false positive, i.e. they are not evolutionary related to the query sequence. The BLAST scores are a bit elevated compared to FASTA. The highest scores are derived from the PSI-BLAST searches and an increase can be seen when the number of iterations is raised.
HSSP
HSSP is a database which contains information about homologuous protein sequences for each protein in the PDB database, which are very likely to have a similar structure as the query. HSSP uses a position-weighted dynamic programming method for sequence profile alignment of PDB entries against the Swissprot database. Therefore the database can also be used to infer homology based secondary structure predictions.
Now we want to use the homology information in HSSP to benchmark our alignment results. The table below depicts the recall and precision of homologs in HSSP of our query by our alignments. FASTA shows the highest recall (92 %), which could lead to the misleading interpretation, that this method performs best. The high value can be ascribed to the fact, that FASTA reports a very high number of alignments - with a lot of false positive - and a selection of true homologs from this results without prior knowledge is quite challenging. This is reflected by the precision of the method, which is only 23 %, i.e. only 23 % of the hits in fasta are true homologs regarding the HSSP annotation.
BLAST perfoms a little bit better than FASTA and PSI-BLAST perfoms best. The latter shows a recall of around 20 % - which is still quite low - but a precision of 65 %, i.e. 64 % of the hits using the PSI-BLAST method are true homologs.
As hhpred was searched against other databases, which contained much less entries than the NR-database used for the other methods, it is not directly comparable to the other results. It performs much worse when hits are compared to all HSSP homologs. But if we only take HSSP homologs, that are contained in the PDB hhpred perfoms best. It even recalls all 12 HSSP "pdb-homologs".
Method | Recall (GI) | Recall (pdb) | Precision (GI) |
FASTA | 0.92 | 0.67 | 0.23 |
BLAST | 0.11 | 0.42 | 0.54 |
Psi-blast1 | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.65 |
Psi-blast2 | 0.23 | 0.5 | 0.62 |
Psi-blast3 | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.65 |
Psi-blast4 | 0.23 | 0.5 | 0.62 |
hhpred (pdb) | 0.01 | 1 | 0.11 |
hhpred (interpro) | 0.01 | 0.92 | 0.12 |
Multiple Alignments
For building the multiple Alignments the following sequences were chosen:
SeqIdentifier | Seq Identity | source | Protein function |
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99-90% Sequence Identity | |||
gi109094666 | 96.6% | Macaca mulatta | Arylsulfatase A isoform 2 |
gi281339526 | 90.8% | Ailuropoda melanoleuca | unknown |
gi47522624 | 91.5% | Sus scrofa | Arylsulfatase A |
gi149759319 | 89.7% | Equus caballus | Arylsulfatase A |
gi301763795 | 90.8% | Ailuropoda melanoleuca | Arylsulfatase A |
89-60% Sequence Identity | |||
115497982 | 87.3% | Bos taurus | Arylsulfatase A precursor |
gi118081865 | 63.4% | Gallus gallus | Arylsulfatase A |
gi126339031 | 74.3% | Monodelphis domestica | Arylsulfatase A |
gi114326188 | 88.4% | Canis lupus familiaris | Arylsulfatase A |
gi164519052 | 85.6% | Rattus norvegicus | Arylsulfatase A |
59-40% Sequence Identity | |||
gi223936859 | 43.9% | Bacterium Ellin514 | Sulfatase |
1P49 | 39.0% | Homo Sapiens | Steryl-Sulfatase |
gi120537984 | 56.0% | Xenopus laevis | unknown |
gi301625378 | 55.5% | Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis | Arylsulfatase A |
gi86142609 | 40.0% | Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis MED217 | Arylsulfatase A |
39-20% Sequence Identity | |||
1FSU | 28.0% | Homo Sapiens | N-Acetylgalactosamine-4-Sulfatase |
2VQR | 20.0% | Rhizobium leguminosarum | Sulfatase |
3ED4 | 32.0% | Escherichia coli | Arylsulfatase |
gi113971721 | 29.0% | Shewanella sp. MR-4 | Sulfatase |
gi310635680 | 36.0% | Planctomyces brasiliensis DSM 5305 | Sulfatase |
The sequences with <20% and >99% sequence identitiy were ignored and 5 samples were randomly picked from the other ranges. So 20 sequences were available for the multiple alignments. Unfortunately no sequences in the range between 99-90% with known 3D-structure were found, so only sequences without known structure were used here. For the range between 59-40% also no pdb-structure was found, so we used a sequence with 39% sequence identity to have at least one pdb-structure.
Cobalt
Cobalt is a progressive Multiple Alignment Tool which uses a collection of pairwise constraints which are derived from different databases. To reduce computation time, sequence clusters are formed and then only one sequence out of the cluster is used for finding conserverd domains and motif matches. <ref name="papadopoulos2007">Papadopoulos JS and Agarwala R (2007) COBALT: constraint-based alignment tool for multiple protein sequences, Bioinformatics 23:1073-79</ref>
Command
time /home/student/Downloads/ncbi-cobalt-2.0.1/cobalt -i MSA_seqs.fasta -norps T > alignments/MSA_cobalt.aln
time | |
real | 0m6.691s |
user | 0m3.550s |
sys | 0m0.240s |
Gaps in secondary structure & JalView
Position in reference | |
HELIX | 39, 70, 210, 290, 291, 451 |
STRAND | 29, 154, 190, 242, 244, 327, 387, 427 |
TURN | 163, 320 |
ClustalW
ClustalW is a Multiple Alignment Tool that uses a guide tree to build a multiple sequence alignment. The guide tree is constructed using Neighbor-Joining. <ref name="larkin2007">Larkin MA, Blackshields G, Brown NP, Chenna R, McGettigan PA, McWilliam H, Valentin F, Wallace IM, Wilm A, Lopez R, Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Higgins DG. (2007). Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics, 23, 2947-2948. </ref>
Command
time clustalw
time | |
real | 3m28.533s |
user | 0m9.500s |
sys | 0m0.110s |
Gaps in secondary structure & JalView
Position in reference | |
HELIX | 39, 70, 290 |
STRAND | 190, 325 |
TURN | 240, 321 |
Muscle
Muscle is a Multiple Alignment Tool that builds a guide tree by an approximation algorithm. Then the sequences are progressively aligned. The alignment is then refined using the calculated pairwise distances. As final step a tree-dependent refinement takes place where the tree is partitioned in two partitions and the profiles for the two subsets are again aligned. <ref name="edgar2004">Edgar, R.C. (2004) MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput.Nucleic Acids Res. 32(5):1792-1797</ref>
Command
time muscle -in MSA_seqs.fasta -out MSA_muscle.aln
time | |
real | 0m4.236s |
user | 0m2.550s |
sys | 0m0.090s |
Gaps in secondary structure & JalView
Position in reference | |
HELIX | 39, 70, 132, 139, 197, 246, 291 |
STRAND | 122, 154, 181, 189, 243, 244, 327, 375, 387, 426 |
TURN | 164, 320 |
T-Coffee
T-Coffee is a Multiple Alignment Tool that build a MSA progressively. Therefor it uses an 'extended library' where triplet information is saved. Also surrounding information from the MSA is used for refinement. <ref name="notredame2000">T-Coffee: A novel method for multiple sequence alignments. Notredame,Higgins,Heringa,JMB,302(205-217)2000</ref>
standard parameters
Command
time t_coffee MSA_seqs.fasta
time | |
real | 1m20.451s |
user | 0m57.410s |
sys | 0m1.580s |
Gaps in secondary structure & JalView
Position in reference | |
HELIX | 69, 131, 139, 197, 288, 289, 414, 453 |
STRAND | 153, 160, 188, 189, 191, 327, 374, 426 |
TURN | 236, 239, 241, 384 |
3d-coffee
3d-coffee is a variant of t-coffee where structural information is used to build a better MSA. <ref name="poirot2004">3DCoffee@igs: a web server for combining sequences and structures into a multiple sequence alignment. Poirot O, Suhre K, Abergel C, O'Toole E, Notredame C. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W37-40.</ref>
Command
time t_coffee MSA_seqs.fasta -mode expresso -pdb_type dn
time | |
real | 21m38.094s |
user | 11m27.690s |
sys | 1m32.880s |
Gaps in secondary structure & JalView
Position in reference | |
HELIX | 69, 131, 137, 194, 205, 211, 246, 290, 450, 452, 453, 459, 466 |
STRAND | 66, 183, 187, 189, 190, 231, 242, 317, 324, 325, 373, 387 |
TURN | 241, 321, 496, 499 |
Summary
Gaps
For each method used in this section, the number of gapped columns (a column is defined as gapped, if it contains at least one gap), the number of conserved columns (all entries in the row have the same amino acid) and the alignment length were calculated.
Cobalt | Muscle | ClustalW | T-Coffee | T-Coffee 3D | |
#gapped columns | 415 | 411 | 286 | 523 | 600 |
#conserved columns | 24 | 26 | 22 | 27 | 25 |
length(alignment) | 715 | 753 | 668 | 862 | 896 |
ClustalW yields the most compact, i.e. shortest multiple sequence alignment (MSA). It exhibits the lowermost overal number of gaps and number of gaps within the secondary structure of the human Arylsulfatase A. The number of 100% conserved columns consequently decreases a bit in comparison to the other methods. Further on the JalView representation shows the most homogenuous alignment of conserved blocks.
Conservation of active sites
As defined before, we only call a Position conserved if has the same amino acid in all sequences.
Cobalt | Muscle | ClustalW | T-Coffee | T-Coffee 3D | |
active site (Pos. 125) | 20 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 |
Metal binding site (Pos. 29) | 21 / 21 | 3 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 |
Metal binding site (Pos. 30) | 21 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 |
Metal binding site (Pos. 69) | 16 / 21 | 13 / 21 | 16 / 21 | 16 / 21 | 16 / 21 |
Metal binding site (Pos. 281) | 21 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 |
Metal binding site (Pos. 282) | 19 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 19 / 21 | 19 / 21 | 19 / 21 |
Binding site (Pos. 123) | 20 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 | 20 / 21 |
Binding site (Pos. 150) | 17 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 16 / 21 | 17 / 21 | 16 / 21 |
Binding site (Pos. 229) | 20 / 21 | 1 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 |
Binding site (Pos. 302) | 21 / 21 | 2 ( 21 | 21 / 21 | 21 / 21 | 20 / 21 |
As shown in the table above, by only looking at important sites, the alignments are very similar, except the muscle-alignment. So the important sites are really well-conserved also in more distant related proteins.
Computation Time
The computation time differed significantelly between the different programs. 3d-coffee took the most time (as expected) while Cobalt and Muscle where the fastest programs on our testset.
References
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