Title:A Novel Protein Characterization Based on Pseudo Amino Acids Composition and Star-Like Graph Topological Indices
Volume: 20
Issue: 4
Author(s): Ping-an He*, Hong Tao, Tingting Ma, Qi Dai and Yuhua Yao
Affiliation:
- School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018,China
Keywords:
RNA polymerase, star-like graph, pseudo amino acids composition, phylogenetic tree, alignment-free, topological
indices.
Abstract: Background and Objective: The rapidly growing number of protein data available creates
necessity of computational methods with low complexity to infer accurate protein structure, function,
and evolution.
Method: A new description of proteins based on five topological indices of star-like graph
representation and the occurrence frequency of 20 amino acids was proposed to compare the
similarities of proteins.
Results: A phylogenetic tree of eight ND6 proteins was constructed to demonstrate the effectiveness
and rationality of our approach. Analogously, we applied this method to RNA polymerase proteins
of some subtypes of influenza virus to infer their phylogenetic relationship. The results showed that
the phylogenetic relationship among RNA polymerase of influenza virus is closely related to
distributions of species virus host and geographical distribution.
Conclusion: This novel approach is based on a mapping which can be recaptured mathematically
without loss of information.