SecStrAnnotator:Analysis

SecStrAnnotator Suite provides scripts (Python, R, and bash) for batch annotation of the whole family and analysis of the annotation results. The main scripts are

- SecStrAPI_master.sh – this bash script used to prepare data for SecStrAPI also formats the annotations into tab-separated (TSV) files readable by R

- secondary_structure_anatomy.R – contains commands for reading the annotation results, generating plots, and performing some statistical test to compare eukaryotic and bacterial structures (or any two sets of structures)

Procedure

Data preparation

scripts/secstrapi_data_preparation/SecStrAPI_master.sh Contains a pipeline for annotating the whole protein family, including: - downloading the list of family members defined by CATH and Pfam, - downloading their structures, - selecting a non-redundant set, - annotation, - multiple sequence alignment for individual SSEs, - formatting into SecStrAPI format, - formatting into TSV format for further analyses.

Example usage:

 bash scripts/secstrapi_data_preparation/SecStrAPI_master.sh

Before running, modify the SETTINGS section of the SecStrAPI_master.sh to set your family of interest, data directory, options, paths to your template annotation (TEMPLATE_ANNOTATION_FILE, TEMPLATE_STRUCTURE_FILE). Unwanted steps of the pipeline can be commented out in the MAIN PIPELINE section.

Example case study: Cytochromes P450

Data

For the Cytochrome P450 family, structures of 1775 protein domains are available, located in 953 PDB entries. The analysis was performed on a non-redundant subset containing 175 protein domains.

Occurrence of SSEs

The occurrence describes in what percentage of the structures a particular SSE is present.

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  Occurrence of particular SSEs in the whole set.

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  Occurrence of particular SSEs – comparison of bacterial and eukaryotic structures.

Length of SSEs

The length of an SSE is measured as the number of residues. The following violin plots show the distribution of length for each SSE.

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  Length distribution of particular SSEs in the whole set.

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  Length distribution of particular SSEs – comparison of bacterial and eukaryotic structures.

Sequence of SSEs

The amino acid sequences for each SSE can be aligned and used to produce a sequence logo. Where the sequence conservation is sufficient, we can establish a generic numbering scheme: the most conserved residue in helix X serves as its reference residue and is numbered as @X.50. The remaining residues in the helix are numbered accordingly.

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