Prediction of cell wall lytic enzymes using Chou's amphiphilic pseudo amino acid composition

Protein Pept Lett. 2009;16(4):351-5. doi: 10.2174/092986609787848045.

Abstract

Discriminating cell wall lytic enzymes from non lytic enzymes is a very important task for curing bacterial infections. In this paper, based on Chou's amphiphilic pseudo amino acid composition, we develop fisher-discriminant based classifier to predict cell wall lytic enzymes. Experiments show that 66.7% sensitivity with 88.6% specificity is obtained. The method is further able to predict endolysin and autolysin with an overall accuracy of 92.9%. Results demonstrated that our method can provide highly useful information for further bacterial control research.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Amino Acids / chemistry*
  • Cell Wall / metabolism*
  • Computational Biology*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Databases, Protein
  • Endopeptidases / metabolism*
  • N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase / metabolism*

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Endopeptidases
  • endolysin
  • N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase