Poster Presentation The 45th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2020

Orthogonal evidence for Olfactory Receptors can be used for agonist prediction (#108)

Amara Jabeen 1 , Shoba Ranganathan 1
  1. Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Proteins are biological macromolecules critical for structure, function, and regulation of human cells and tissues. The human genome draft is available since 2003 but until now not all the coding genes have known protein products. Human Proteome Project (HPP), launched in 2010 with the aim of mapping the entire human proteome. The HPP community has identified 88.62% of the coding genes as protein products. The remaining 11.38% are missing. Since most of the missing proteins are membrane proteins which might have clinical implications, therefore it is important to identify these proteins for utilizing their therapeutical potential. Several technical challenges make the missing protein (MP) identification through mass spectrometry (MS) difficult. Olfactory receptors (ORs), the superfamily of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest MPs family. There is no convincing MS evidence available for even single OR. Four of the ORs are given the protein status based on orthogonal evidence. Therefore, we collated the available orthogonal evidence for ORs from published literature. Particularly, available ligand evidence can be used for novel agonist prediction. We have applied different classical ML and deep learning methods to an ectopic OR, with a broad ligand spectrum. OR1G1 (UniProt ID: P47890) is ectopically expressed in gut enterochromaffin cells (normal and tumors) where it is known to be responsible for serotonin release. On the basis of classifier performance, we applied the naive Bayes classifier to a large test dataset, resulting in high probability predictions [1]. Such an approach will assist in collecting experimental evidence for the missing olfactory proteome.

 

  1. Jabeen A, Ranganathan S (2019) Applications of machine learning in GPCR bioactive ligand discovery. Curr Opin Struct Biol, 55:66–76.