The Protein Journal

, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 550–563 | Cite as

Information Properties of Naturally-Occurring Proteins: Fourier Analysis and Complexity Phase Plots

  • Daniel J. Graham
  • Shelby Grzetic
  • Donald May
  • John Zumpf
Article

Abstract

In previous work from this lab, the information in natural proteins was investigated with Ribonuclease A (RNase A) serving as the source. The signature traits were investigated at three structure levels: primary through tertiary. The present paper travels further by charting the primary structure information of about half a million molecules. This was feasible given abundant sequence archives for both living and viral systems. Notably, a method is presented for evaluating primary structure information, based on Fourier analysis and spectral complexity. Significantly, the results show certain complexity traits to be universal for living sources. Viruses, by contrast, encode protein collections which are case-specific and complexity-divergent. The results have ramifications for discriminating collections on the basis of sequence information. This discrimination offers new strategies for selecting drug targets.

Keywords

Proteins Fourier analysis Spectral entropy Complexity Phase diagrams Viruses 

Abbreviations

PDB

Protein data bank

RNase A

Ribonuclease A

QSAR

Quantitative structure activity relation

CI

Correlated information

WT

Wild type

2D

Two dimensional

Notes

Acknowledgments

The authors appreciate discussions with Professors Miguel Ballicora and Ken Olsen about individual proteins, natural libraries, and NCBI archives. The authors wish to thank an anonymous reviewer for comments and suggestions for improvement.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Daniel J. Graham
    • 1
  • Shelby Grzetic
    • 1
  • Donald May
    • 1
  • John Zumpf
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of ChemistryLoyola University ChicagoChicagoUSA

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