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1	Predikce škodlivosti aminokyselinových mutací s využitím metody MAPP / Predicting the Effect of Amino Acid Substitutions on Protein Function Using MAPP Method Pelikán, Ondřej January 2014 (has links) This thesis discusses the issue of predicting the effect of amino acid substitutions on protein function using MAPP method. This method requires the multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree constructed by third-party tools. Main goal of this thesis is to find the combination of suitable tools and their parameters to generate the inputs of MAPP method on the basis of analysis on one massively mutated protein. Then, the MAPP method is tested with chosen combination of parameters and tools on two large independent datasets and consequently is compared with the other tools focused on prediction of the effect of mutations. Apart from this the web interface for the MAPP method was created. This interface simplifies the use of the method since the user need not to install any tools or set any parameters.
2	Searching for novel protein-protein specificities using a combined approach of sequence co-evolution and local structural equilibration Nordesjö, Olle January 2016 (has links) Greater understanding of how we can use protein simulations and statistical characteristics of biomolecular interfaces as proxies for biological function will make manifest major advances in protein engineering. Here we show how to use calculated change in binding affinity and coevolutionary scores to predict the functional effect of mutations in the interface between a Histidine Kinase and a Response Regulator. These proteins participate in the Two-Component Regulatory system, a system for intracellular signalling found in bacteria. We find that both scores work as proxies for functional mutants and demonstrate a ~30 fold improvement in initial positive predictive value compared with choosing randomly from a sequence space of 160 000 variants in the top 20 mutants. We also demonstrate qualitative differences in the predictions of the two scores, primarily a tendency for the coevolutionary score to miss out on one class of functional mutants with enriched frequency of the amino acid threonine in one position. Biotechnology Bioinformatics Molecular Structure Protein Conformation Computing Methodologies Protein-protein interaction Binding affinity Mutation analysis Amino acid mutation in-silico binding affinity prediction Two-component regulatory system Histidine Kinase Response Regulator Prediction PhoQ PhoP Phosphatase Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Bioinformatik och systembiologi Structural Biology Strukturbiologi Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) Bioinformatik (beräkningsbiologi)

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Predikce škodlivosti aminokyselinových mutací s využitím metody MAPP / Predicting the Effect of Amino Acid Substitutions on Protein Function Using MAPP Method

Searching for novel protein-protein specificities using a combined approach of sequence co-evolution and local structural equilibration