Physicochemical Feature Selection for Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptides
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shehu, Amarda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veltri, Daniel Paul | |
| dc.creator | Veltri, Daniel Paul | |
| dc.date | 2013-04-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T21:12:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T21:12:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-08-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Due to recent attention on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as targets for antibacterial drug research, many machine learning methods are now turning their attention to AMP recognition. Approaches that rely on whole-peptide properties for recognition are challenged by the great sequence diversity among AMPs for effective feature construction. This thesis proposes a novel and complementary method for feature construction which relies on an extensive list of position-based amino acid physicochemical properties. These features are shown effective in the context of classification by support vector machine (SVM), both in comparison to related work in recognition of AMPs and in a novel study on the cathelicidin family. A detailed analysis and careful construction of a decoy dataset allows for the highlighting of antimicrobial activity-related features in cathelicidins. Special attention is also given to residue positions involved with enzymatic cleavage. The method presented in this thesis is a first step towards understanding what confers to cathelicidins their activity at the physicochemical level and may prove useful for future AMP design efforts. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8321 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Antimicrobial peptides | |
| dc.subject | AMPs | |
| dc.subject | Cathelicidins | |
| dc.subject | Support vector machine | |
| dc.subject | SVM | |
| dc.subject | Drug design | |
| dc.title | Physicochemical Feature Selection for Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptides | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | George Mason University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Master's | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |