iProt-Sub: a comprehensive package for accurately mapping and predicting protease-specific substrates and cleavage sites

J Song, Y Wang, F Li, T Akutsu… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Regulation of proteolysis plays a critical role in a myriad of important cellular processes. The
key to better understanding the mechanisms that control this process is to identify the …

Large-scale comparative assessment of computational predictors for lysine post-translational modification sites

Z Chen, X Liu, F Li, C Li, T Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Lysine post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a crucial role in regulating diverse
functions and biological processes of proteins. However, because of the large volumes of …

Optimal classifier for imbalanced data using Matthews Correlation Coefficient metric

S Boughorbel, F Jarray, M El-Anbari - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Data imbalance is frequently encountered in biomedical applications. Resampling
techniques can be used in binary classification to tackle this issue. However such solutions …

Sixty-five years of the long march in protein secondary structure prediction: the final stretch?

Y Yang, J Gao, J Wang, R Heffernan… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Protein secondary structure prediction began in 1951 when Pauling and Corey predicted
helical and sheet conformations for protein polypeptide backbone even before the first …

iTerm-PseKNC: a sequence-based tool for predicting bacterial transcriptional terminators

CQ Feng, ZY Zhang, XJ Zhu, Y Lin, W Chen… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Transcription termination is an important regulatory step of gene expression. If
there is no terminator in gene, transcription could not stop, which will result in abnormal …

PROSPER: an integrated feature-based tool for predicting protease substrate cleavage sites

J Song, H Tan, AJ Perry, T Akutsu, GI Webb… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The ability to catalytically cleave protein substrates after synthesis is fundamental for all
forms of life. Accordingly, site-specific proteolysis is one of the most important post …

High-resolution structure of the Escherichia coli ribosome

J Noeske, MR Wasserman, DS Terry… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Protein synthesis by the ribosome is highly dependent on the ionic conditions in the cellular
environment, but the roles of ribosome solvation have remained poorly understood …

PREvaIL, an integrative approach for inferring catalytic residues using sequence, structural, and network features in a machine-learning framework

J Song, F Li, K Takemoto, G Haffari, T Akutsu… - Journal of theoretical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Determining the catalytic residues in an enzyme is critical to our understanding the
relationship between protein sequence, structure, function, and enhancing our ability to …

Prediction of Ubiquitination Sites by Using the Composition of k-Spaced Amino Acid Pairs

Z Chen, YZ Chen, XF Wang, C Wang, RX Yan… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
As one of the most important reversible protein post-translation modifications, ubiquitination
has been reported to be involved in lots of biological processes and closely implicated with …

Computational analysis and prediction of lysine malonylation sites by exploiting informative features in an integrative machine-learning framework

Y Zhang, R Xie, J Wang, A Leier… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As a newly discovered post-translational modification (PTM), lysine malonylation (Kmal)
regulates a myriad of cellular processes from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and has important …