GPS 2.0, a Tool to Predict Kinase-specific Phosphorylation Sites in Hierarchy

Abstract

Identification of protein phosphorylation sites with their cognate protein kinases (PKs) is a key step to delineate molecular dynamics and plasticity underlying a variety of cellular processes. Although nearly 10 kinase-specific prediction programs have been developed, numerous PKs have been casually classified into subgroups without a standard rule. For large scale predictions, the false positive rate has also never been addressed. In this work, we adopted a well established rule to classify PKs into a hierarchical structure with four levels, including group, family, subfamily, and single PK. In addition, we developed a simple approach to estimate the theoretically maximal false positive rates. The on-line service and local packages of the GPS (Group-based Prediction System) 2.0 were implemented in Java with the modified version of the Group-based Phosphorylation Scoring algorithm. As the first stand alone software for predicting phosphorylation, GPS 2.0 can predict kinase-specific phosphorylation sites for 408 human PKs in hierarchy. A large scale prediction of more than 13,000 mammalian phosphorylation sites by GPS 2.0 was exhibited with great performance and remarkable accuracy. Using Aurora-B as an example, we also conducted a proteome-wide search and provided systematic prediction of Aurora-B-specific substrates including protein-protein interaction information. Thus, the GPS 2.0 is a useful tool for predicting protein phosphorylation sites and their cognate kinases and is freely available on line. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 7:1598 -1608, 2008.Post-translational modification of proteins provides reversible means to regulate the function of a protein in space and time. Recently computational studies of post-translational modifications (PTMs) 1 of proteins have attracted much attention. Various PTMs regulate the functions and dynamics of proteins through specific modifications and are implicated in almost all cellular processes. In contrast to the labor-intensive and expensive experimental methods, in silico prediction of PTM-specific substrates with their sites has emerged as a popular alternative approach. To date, more than 32 computational prediction tools have been developed (1). In the field of computational PTMs, protein phosphorylation is the most studied example. To predict general phosphorylation sites, several tools have been developed, such as DISPHOS (2), NetPhos (3), NetPhosYeast (4), and GANNPhos (5). As the need for performing large scale predictions and constructing reliable phosphorylation networks evolves, robust prediction of kinase-specific phosphorylation sites has become necessary and challenging. For example, Neuberger et al. ) developed NetworKIN and constructed a human phosphorylation network, which has gained diversified interest not only for human phosphorylation network prediction but also for general implication in cell biology. To predict kinase-specific phosphorylation sites, several on-line Web services have been implemented using various algorithms, including our previ...

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