Potential protein activity modifications of amino acid variants in the human transcriptome

• Authors: Joanna Zyla , Robert Bulman , Christophe Badie , Simon Bouffler
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Background: The occurrence of widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome was reported in 2011. Similar findings were described in a second independent publication on personal omics profiling investigating the occurrence of dynamic molecular and related medical phenotypes. The suggestion that the RNA sequence variation was likely to affect disease susceptibility prompted us to investigate with a range of algorithms the amino acid variants reported to be present in the identified peptides to determine if they might be disease-causing. Results: The predictive qualities of the different algorithms were first evaluated by using nonsynonymous single-base nucleotide polymorphism (nsSNP) datasets, using independently established data on amino acid variants in several proteins as well as data obtained by mutational mapping and modelling of binding sites in the human serotonin transporter protein (hSERT). Validation of the used predictive algorithms was at a 75% level. Using the same algorithms, we found that widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences were predicted to impair the function of the peptides in over 57% of cases. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a proportion of edited RNAs which serve as templates for protein synthesis is likely to modify protein function, possibly as an adaptive survival mechanism in response to environmental modifications.

Keywords

EN

RNA editing; amino acid variants

• Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
• Journal: Acta Biochimica Polonica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-61

Dates

published

2015

received

2014-04-23

revised

2014-10-21

accepted

2014-12-12

online

2015-02-04

Contributors

author

Joanna Zyla

• Data Mining Group, Institute of Automatic Control, Faculty of Automatic, Electronic and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

author

Robert Bulman

• Public Health England, Chilton, Didcot, United Kingdom

author

Christophe Badie

• Public Health England, Chilton, Didcot, United Kingdom

author

Simon Bouffler

• Public Health England, Chilton, Didcot, United Kingdom

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