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ASCARIS: Positional Feature Annotation and Protein Structure-Based Representation of Single Amino Acid Variations

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Cankara, Fatma, Doğan, Tunca·2022·Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
DOI 10.1101/2022.11.03.514934PMC PMC10562615

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Motivation: Genomic variations may cause deleterious effects on protein functionality and perturb biological processes. Elucidating the effects of variations is critical for developing novel treatment strategies for diseases of genetic origin. Computational approaches have been aiding the work in this field by modeling and analyzing the mutational landscape. However, new approaches are required, especially for accurate and comprehensive representation and data-centric analysis of sequence variations. Results: In this study, we propose ASCARIS (Annotation and StruCture-bAsed RepresentatIon of Single amino acid variations - SAVs), a method for the featurization (i.e., quantitative representation) of SAVs, which could be used for a variety of purposes, such as predicting their functional effects or building multi-omics-based integrative models. In ASCARIS representations, we incorporated the correspondence between the location of the SAV on the sequence and 30 different types of positional feature annotations (e.g., active/lipidation/glycosylation sites; calcium/metal/DNA binding, inter/transmembrane regions, etc.) from UniProt, along with structural features such as protein domains, the location of variation (e.g., core/interface/surface), and the change in physico-chemical properties using models from PDB and AlphaFold-DB. We also mapped the mutated and annotated residues to the 3-D plane and calculated the spatial distances between them in order to account for the functional changes caused by variations in positions close to the functionally essential ones. Finally, we constructed a 74-dimensional feature set to represent each SAV in a dataset composed of ∼100,000 data points. We statistically analyzed the relationship between each of these features and the consequences of variations, and found that each of them carries information in this regard. To investigate potential applications of ASCARIS, we trained variant effect predictor models that utilize our SAV representations as input. We carried out both an ablation study and a comparison against the state-of-the-art methods over well-known benchmark datasets. We observed that our method displays a competing performance against widely-used predictors. Also, our predictions were complementary to these methods which is probably due to fact that ASCARIS has a rather unique focus in modeling variations. ASCARIS can be used either alone or in combination with other approaches, to universally represent SAVs from a functional perspective. Availability and implementation: The source code, datasets, results, and user instructions of ASCARIS are available at https://github.com/HUBioDataLab/ASCARIS .

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Fig. 1 The overall workflow of the proposed variant featurization/representation method, ASCARIS, together with its application to the problem of variant effect prediction.
Fig. 1 The overall workflow of the proposed variant featurization/representation method, ASCARIS, together with its application to the problem of variant effect prediction.CC BY-NC-ND · PubMed Central
Fig. 2 Dataset construction and featurization steps: (a) the sources of structural information and statistics about the data from each source, (b) the representation of different types of features on SAV representations, (c) mapping of positional sequence annotations and the SAV onto the 3-D protein structure, and part of the SAV feature vector that corresponds to these annotations.
Fig. 2 Dataset construction and featurization steps: (a) the sources of structural information and statistics about the data from each source, (b) the representation of different types of features on SAV representations, (c) mapping of positional sequence annotations and the SAV onto the 3-D protein structure, and part of the SAV feature vector that corresponds to these annotations.CC BY-NC-ND · PubMed Central
Fig. 3 . (a) Distribution of neutral and deleterious SAV data points according to their domain region correspondence. Mutations found within the domains tend to be more deleterious (61.3%) compared to the ones outside (30.6%), (b) distribution of neutral and deleterious SAV data points according to their location on the structure of the protein. Mutations found within the core and interface regions tend to be more deleterious (71.7% and 69.4%, respectively) compared to the ones on the surface (48.6%).
Fig. 3 . (a) Distribution of neutral and deleterious SAV data points according to their domain region correspondence. Mutations found within the domains tend to be more deleterious (61.3%) compared to the ones outside (30.6%), (b) distribution of neutral and deleterious SAV data points according to their location on the structure of the protein. Mutations found within the core and interface regions tend to be more deleterious (71.7% and 69.4%, respectively) compared to the ones on the surface (48.6%).CC BY-NC-ND · PubMed Central
Fig. 4 . (a) The coverage of each annotation category on the proteins in our SAV dataset (e.g., nearly 23% of proteins in our dataset have at least one active site annotation in UniProtKB), (b) the rates of deleterious vs neutral variations for each annotation category, which are calculated considering the SAV data points in our dataset that coincide with a positional annotation on the same residue, (c) Mean spatial distances between annotated residues and mutated residues in the structure, calculated independently for each annotation category, considering the cases in which the SAV and annotated residue do not coincide on the same residue. In the case of the existence of multiple annotations on a protein, only the annotation that is located spatially closest to the mutation of interest is taken into account. Dashed lines indicate overall averages calculated by taking the mean of all distances. For the calculation of Euclidean distances between residues, the coordinates of C⍺ of the respective amino acids are extracted from PDB models.
Fig. 4 . (a) The coverage of each annotation category on the proteins in our SAV dataset (e.g., nearly 23% of proteins in our dataset have at least one active site annotation in UniProtKB), (b) the rates of deleterious vs neutral variations for each annotation category, which are calculated considering the SAV data points in our dataset that coincide with a positional annotation on the same residue, (c) Mean spatial distances between annotated residues and mutated residues in the structure, calculated independently for each annotation category, considering the cases in which the SAV and annotated residue do not coincide on the same residue. In the case of the existence of multiple annotations on a protein, only the annotation that is located spatially closest to the mutation of interest is taken into account. Dashed lines indicate overall averages calculated by taking the mean of all distances. For the calculation of Euclidean distances between residues, the coordinates of C⍺ of the respective amino acids are extracted from PDB models.CC BY-NC-ND · PubMed Central
Fig. 5 Performance results (AUROC) of ASCARIS and 46 different VEPs from the literature, on the deep mutational scanning data. AUROC scores indicate the success of methods in distinguishing deleterious (pathogenic) SAVs from the neutral (benign) ones on the; (a) BRCA1, (b) CALM1, and (c) P53 genes. The number of test SAVs for each class are shown in plot titles. ASCARIS scores are shown in blue colored bars (DMS: deep mutational scanning, Supervised: machine learning -ML- models that learns from labeled samples, Unsupervised: ML models that learns from evolutionary conservation and multiple sequence alignments, Empirical: different from ML models, these are VEPs that rely on empirical calculations, Metapredictor: mostly supervised ML models that utilize the results of other VEPs as its input).
Fig. 5 Performance results (AUROC) of ASCARIS and 46 different VEPs from the literature, on the deep mutational scanning data. AUROC scores indicate the success of methods in distinguishing deleterious (pathogenic) SAVs from the neutral (benign) ones on the; (a) BRCA1, (b) CALM1, and (c) P53 genes. The number of test SAVs for each class are shown in plot titles. ASCARIS scores are shown in blue colored bars (DMS: deep mutational scanning, Supervised: machine learning -ML- models that learns from labeled samples, Unsupervised: ML models that learns from evolutionary conservation and multiple sequence alignments, Empirical: different from ML models, these are VEPs that rely on empirical calculations, Metapredictor: mostly supervised ML models that utilize the results of other VEPs as its input).CC BY-NC-ND · PubMed Central

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Authors
Cankara, F., & Doğan, T.
Affiliations
  • Koç University (TR)
  • Hacettepe University (TR)
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Doğan, Tunca
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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
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2022-11-04
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21
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4743-4758
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2001-0370 (ISSN-L)
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10.1101/2022.11.03.514934
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PMC10562615
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Koç Üniversitesi
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Keywords
variant effect prediction, protein structure, functional annotation, protein binding sites, physicochemical properties, multi-omics integration, Ascaris

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Cankara, F., & Doğan, T. (2022). ASCARIS: Positional Feature Annotation and Protein Structure-Based Representation of Single Amino Acid Variations. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.03.514934