UbiSite: incorporating two-layered machine learning method with substrate motifs to predict ubiquitin-conjugation site on lysines.

Journal: BMC systems biology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The conjugation of ubiquitin to a substrate protein (protein ubiquitylation), which involves a sequential process--E1 activation, E2 conjugation and E3 ligation, is crucial to the regulation of protein function and activity in eukaryotes. This ubiquitin-conjugation process typically binds the last amino acid of ubiquitin (glycine 76) to a lysine residue of a target protein. The high-throughput of mass spectrometry-based proteomics has stimulated a large-scale identification of ubiquitin-conjugated peptides. Hence, a new web resource, UbiSite, was developed to identify ubiquitin-conjugation site on lysines based on large-scale proteome dataset.

Authors

  • Chien-Hsun Huang
  • Min-Gang Su
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, 320, Taiwan. migon229@gmail.com.
  • Hui-Ju Kao
  • Jhih-Hua Jhong
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, 320, Taiwan. euphoria5270@gmail.com.
  • Shun-Long Weng
  • Tzong-Yi Lee