Task 4: Structural Alignments

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Explore structural alignments

lab journal task 4

PDB structures selection

We first selected a set of structures that span different ranges of sequence identity to the reference structure (1A6Z). The domain A of the reference structure has the CATH annotation 3.30.500.10.9 (Murine Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex H2-DB subunit A domain 1) and the domain b 2.60.40.10 (immunoglobulins). We decided to take the domain A as template and only searched for structures with a similar annotation to 3.30.500.10.9, since the immunglobulin domain is only bound to the protein and not directly connected. Also, because the disease causing mutations are all located in the MHC domain. <xr id="selected structures"/> list the structures, their CATH numbers and percent sequence identity to the reference. Unfortunately, we could not find a structure with a sequence identity over 60%. The most similar structure we could find was 1qvo with 39% identity.

<figtable id="selected structures">

category ID chain domain CATH number Sequence identity (%) protein (organism)
reference 1A6Z A 1 3.30.500.10 - HFE (Homo sapiens)
identical sequence 1DE4 A 1 3.30.500.10 100 HFE (Homo sapiens)
> 30% SeqID 1QVO A 01 3.30.500.10 39 HLA class I histocompatibility antigen, A-11 alpha chain (Homo sapiens)
< 30% SeqID 1S7X A 00 3.30.500.10 29 H-2 class I histocompatibility antigen, D-B alpha chain (Mus musculus)
CAT 2IA1 A 01 3.30.500.20 11.1 BH3703 protein (Bacillus halodurans)
CA 3NCI A 01 3.30.342.10 5.8 DNA polymerase (Enterobacteria phage RB69)
C 1VZY A 01 3.55.30.10 2.8 33 KDA CHAPERONIN (Bacillus subtilis)
different CATH 1MUS A 01 1.10.246.40 12.6 Tn5 transposase (Escherichia coli)
Table 1: Table of the selected pdb structures, the chain, the CATH annotation, their sequence identity to the refeerence 1A6Z_A and the protein type.

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Results

In Pymol, each structure from <xr id="selected structures"/> was aligned to the reference 1A6Z_A using only the C_alpha atoms and also using all the atoms. The resulting RMSD values are specified in <xr id="score results"/>. The numbers in brackets after the RMSD values indicate the number of aligned residues that were used to compute the corresponding values.

<figtable id="score results">

PDB ID Seq. identity (%) Pymol LGA SSAP TopMatch CE
RMSD (only C_alpha) RMSD (all atom) RMSD LGA_S RMSD SSAP_Score RMSD S S_r RMSD Score
1DE4_A 100 0.675 (237) 0.767 (1836) 1.14 (267) 95.77 1.60 (272) 93.07 1.08 (266) 260 1.03 1.19 (267) 543
1QVO_A 39 2.165 (233) 2.279 (1565) 2.29 (259) 67.86 2.58 (268) 86.39 2.62 (259) 228 2.50 2.44 (266) 432
1S7X_A 29 1.889 (233) 2.049 (1557) 2.12 (256) 71.90 2.36 (267) 86.25 2.66 (259) 227 2.56 2.29 (265) 342
2IA1_A 11.1 18.132 (74) 18.283 (501) 2.83 (86) 19.44 15.85 (140) 56.19 2.91 (89) 76 2.82 3.93 (93) 300
3NCI_A 5.8 16.561 (26) 17.329 (178) 3.11 (84) 17.19 14.54 (168) 30.18 3.05 (63) 53 2.94 4.47 (75) 333
1VZY_A 2.8 6.260 (29) 6.951 (168) 3.25 (63) 13.44 26.34 (208) 58.01 2.61 (77) 68 2.53 5.80 (91) 245
1MUS_A 12.6 23.521 (180) 23.891 (1143) 2.82 (69) 16.02 18.53 (215) 46.30 3.58 (88) 69 3.43 6.61 (78) 379
Table 2: Results of the structural alignments of the selected proteins to the template 1A6Z_A. The different alignment scores are listed for each method and the numbers of equivalent residues are stated in brackets after the RMSD.

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Images of the superimposed structures, using the C_alpha atoms, are shown in <xr id="pymol str. al.">. The pictures show clearly that a successful superposition is only possible if the two structures share a certain level of sequence identity. 1QVO_A could be aligned to the reference with a low RMSD (39% sequence identity), but 1S7X_A has a even lower value, although the sequence identity is smaller (29%). This could be explained by the fact that 1S7X_A is the exact mouse ortholog of the human Murine Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex H2-DB chain A (1A6Z_A) and therfore has a nearly identical structure. Apart from the three structures 1DE4_A, 1QVO_A and 1S7X_A, the other proteins could not really be superimposed to the reference, see the high RMSD values in column 3 and also the low number of equivalent residues in <xr id="score results"/>. Using all the atoms for the computation of the RMSD did not increase the quality of the alignments and the RMSD, see column 4 <xr id="score results"/>. Instead, it lead to a overall higher RMSD.

<figtable id="pymol str. al.">

1DE4_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). The sequences are identical and thus the alignment is perfect.
1QVO_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). Both proteins share a high sequence identity and could be aligned quite good.
1S7X_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). Although the two sequences only share 29% sequence identity, they could be aligned very good. This can be explained by the fact that the proteins are orthologs from two different species.
2IA1_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). The two proteins could not be aligned well despite the fat that they share the same CAT numbers.
3NCI_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). The alignment was not successful.
1VZY_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). Because the proteins only share the same C number, the alignment is not good.
1MUS_A (red) aligned to 1A6Z_A (green). The proteins have completely different CATH annotations and therefore different structrues that cannot be aligned.
Table 3: Visualisation of the pariwise structural alignments of all selected proteins to the template 1A6Z_A using the C_alpha atoms. The template is shown in green and the target in red.

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Different structural alignments were applied, in addition to Pymol,to superimpose all the structures to the reference. The resulting alignments scores are specified in <xr id="score results"/>. RMSD values vary between different methods, but this can be explained with the varying number of equivalent residues each method found. The more residues aligned, the higher is the RMSD.

LGA is the best method for finding good local superpositions, this can be seen with the very low RMSD values for structures with low sequence identity. Nevertheless, the LGA_S score gives a good impression of how similar the two structures are globally. Very similar structures get a high value near 100 and divergent structures only a score of 13-20, in our case. SSAP could align the most residues in comparison to the other methods. But the SSAP_Score, ranging from 0 to 100, is relatively high for the structures with low sequence identity. For example 1MUS_A has a score of 46.30, although the two protein do not share a common fold. This leads to a false impression of structural similarity. TopMatch also has overall low RMSD values and the numbers of equivalent residues are comparable to those in LGA. However, 3 values must be taken into account to get the right impression of how similar two structures are. The score S, S_r and also the number of aligned residues. For example, both 1QVO_A and 1VZY_A have an S_r of approximately 2.5 and the difference between the number of euivalent residues and S is also low for both (1QVO_A: 31, 1VZY_A: 9). Only if you take into account that both proteins have roughly the same length and that the percentage of aligned residues from 1QVO_A is higher, it gets obvious that 1QVO_A is structurally more related to the reference than 1VZY_A. CE is difficult to interpred since we could not find an explanation for the Score.

Two LGA superpositions are shown in <xr id="lga examples"/>. LGA could find the local similarity between 2IA1_A and 1A6Z_A, which is the alpha helix on the top as well as some beta sheets. 1MUS_A could be aligned to 1A6Z_A based on the one alpha helix and a few beta sheets. However, the relative low Score LGA_S for both proteins (2IA1_A: 19.44 and 1MUS_A: 16.02) make it clear that the similarity is only local and not globally. Therfore, we find that LGA gives us the best impression of structural relatedness.


<figtable id="lga examples">

LGA alignment of 2IA1_A (red) to 1A6Z_A (green).
LGA alignment of 1MUS_A (red) to 1A6Z_A (green).
Table 4: Visualisation of the pariwise structural alignments of 2IA1_A and 1MUS_A to the template 1A6Z_A using LGA. The template is shown in green and the target in red.

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Structural alignments for evaluating sequence alignments

<figtable id="models">

LGA hhsearch
PDB ID superimposed residues RMSD Seq_id LGA_S LGA_Q probability E-value seq. identity
3p73_A 257 1.99 96.11 75.9 12.3 100.0 4E-68 34.9
1uvq_B 147 2.71 74.15 34.9 5.2 100.0 3.5E-40 22.2
1bii_B 91 1.89 97.8 30.6 4.6 99.6 4.2E-19 18.0
1i1c_A 70 1.73 97.14 23.7 3.8 98.4 2.1E-10 25.0
2vol_A 68 1.85 89.7 22.4 3.5 97.6 9.4E-08 24.4
1iga_A 58 1.99 74.14 16.0 2.8 96.1 9.4E-05 21.3
2wng_A 62 1.91 95.2 19.1 3.1 94.5 0.0022 14.6
1wwc_A 55 2.52 63.64 14.0 2.1 92.9 0.01 6.9
1rhf_A 51 2.22 74.51 13.6 2.2 79.4 0.4 8.0
Table 5:

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<figtable id="correlations">

PDB ID superimposed residues RMSD Seq_id LGA_S LGA_Q probability E-value seq. identity
3p73_A 257 1.99 96.11 75.9 12.3 100.0 4E-68 34.9
1uvq_B 147 2.71 74.15 34.9 5.2 100.0 3.5E-40 22.2
1bii_B 91 1.89 97.8 30.6 4.6 99.6 4.2E-19 18.0
1i1c_A 70 1.73 97.14 23.7 3.8 98.4 2.1E-10 25.0
2vol_A 68 1.85 89.7 22.4 3.5 97.6 9.4E-08 24.4
1iga_A 58 1.99 74.14 16.0 2.8 96.1 9.4E-05 21.3
2wng_A 62 1.91 95.2 19.1 3.1 94.5 0.0022 14.6
1wwc_A 55 2.52 63.64 14.0 2.1 92.9 0.01 6.9
1rhf_A 51 2.22 74.51 13.6 2.2 79.4 0.4 8.0
Table 5:

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