Das, S; Scholes, HM; Sen, N; Orengo, C; (2020) CATH functional families predict functional sites in proteins. Bioinformatics 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa937. (In press).

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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Identification of functional sites in proteins is essential for functional characterization, variant interpretation and drug design. Several methods are available for predicting either a generic functional site, or specific types of functional site. Here, we present FunSite, a machine learning predictor that identifies catalytic, ligand-binding and protein-protein interaction functional sites using features derived from protein sequence and structure, and evolutionary data from CATH functional families (FunFams). RESULTS: FunSite's prediction performance was rigorously benchmarked using cross-validation and a holdout dataset. FunSite outperformed other publicly-available functional site prediction methods. We show that conserved residues in FunFams are enriched in functional sites. We found FunSite's performance depends greatly on the quality of functional site annotations and the information content of FunFams in the training data. Finally, we analyse which structural and evolutionary features are most predictive for functional sites. AVAILABILITY: https://github.com/UCL/cath-funsite-predictor. CONTACT: c.orengo@ucl.ac.uk. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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