Creating an example of workflows using DDBJ-KEGG-PDBj

Members:

• Yasumasa Shigemoto (WABI/SABI; DDBJ, Japan)
• Akira Kinjo (PDBj, Japan)
• Soichi Ogishima (Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ, Japan)
• Masumi Itoh (Hokkaido Univ)

with some help from the KEGG people.

•  DDBJ
•  KEGG
•  PDBj

What we want to do

Finding pathway components (enzymes) that are expected to form physical contacts as judged from homologous protein structures.

In short, find the physical protein-protein interaction networks of homologous pathways in various species.

The procedure

Part I

Using KEGG API:  http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/

1. Pick a pathway of a specific organism, say Glycolysis / Gluconeogenesis pathway of Homo sapiens (human).
2. Get all the amino acid sequences of that pathway component (c1, c2, ..., cm).

Part II

Using WABI (DDBJ):  http://xml.nig.ac.jp/index.html

1. Run blast for each sequence against UniProt(SwissProt / TrEMBL).
2. Group the blast results according to biological species (s1, s2, ..., sn).
3. For each pathway component (ci), pick the top hit from each species.
   • At this step, you have (at most) an m compoents X n species array of protein sequences: Homologous Compoenents Matrix (HCM) or more commonly called Phylogenetic profile.

Part III

Using Sequence Navigator API (PDBj):  http://pdbjs3.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/seqnavix/soap/index.html

1. Pick one column (species) of the HCM (sj) For each component of that column, run blast against PDB sequences.
   • You will have a list of PDBID and Chain ID as a result of this blast search.
2. If the blast results of two components share the same PDB ID but do not share the same Chain ID, they are judged to be in contact.
   • By regarding each pathway component as a node, the inferred physical contacts between two components correspond to an edge in the network.
3. Iterate the above two steps for each column of the HCM.
4. Finally, show the list of inferred PPI of the pathway for each species.

Outline

Here's a pathway of human

Pick amino acid sequences for the pathway components

>comp1
.....
>comp2
....
>comp3
....

After running blast for each pathway component

You will have a list of proteins annotated with species.

Comp1
  protein1 species1 evalue...
  protein2 species2 evalue...
  protein3 species1 evalue...
  protein4 species2 evalue...
  protein5 species3 evalue...
...
Comp2
  protein1 species1 evalue...
...

For each species, select the top hit for each pathway component

That is, filling the phylogenetic profile. In doing so, just select the top hit for each component for each species.

          species1   species2   species3 ... ....... speciesN
-------+---------------------------
comp1  | protein11   protein12   ...
comp2  | protein21   protein22   protein23 ...
comp3  | ...
comp4  | ...
....
compM

Pick one column and run blast against PDB

Let's pick the species j.

for i = 1 to M
    result(i) <- run blast protein(i,j) against PDB

aset := () // empty set.
for i1 = 1 to M-1
  for i2 = i1 + 1 to M
     if result(i1).pdbid = result(i2).pdbid 
         and result(i1).chainID <> result(i2).chainID then
        push (i1,i2,result(i1).pdbid)  aset

• Maybe we should not limit to the condition "pdbid1=pdbid2 and chainID1 <> chainID2".
• Sometimes, two or more genes may be merged in one sequence. In that case, they will match the same chain ID but with non-overlapping regions.

Day 3 (Mar. 19)

Error: Failed to load processor Timestamp

No macro or processor named 'Timestamp' found

• Part I is done. Part II is almost done. working on the routine for filling phylogenetic profile.
• Ogishima-san says he can draw the colored pictures of the final output.
• Some difficulty with Perl. Switch to Java?