Structural and Topological Variations in Amino Acids Encoded by Synonymous Codons

dc.contributor.advisorVaisman, Iosif
dc.contributor.authorWang, Shengyuan
dc.creatorWang, Shengyuan
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-03T20:18:37Z
dc.date.available2022-08-03T20:18:37Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the relationship between protein structural and topological properties using computational geometry approach. A representative nonredundant dataset containing 10,220 individual protein chains with known structures was created, and each amino acid residue in the set was matched to the corresponding codon. The Delaunay tessellation of all proteins in the dataset resulted in the four-body statistical potentials with both 20 letter amino acid alphabet and 61 letter codon alphabet. Compositional, geometric, and topological patterns in the codon based representation were identified and influence of the synonymous codons on protein structure was assessed. Both amino acid and codon based potentials were extensively tested for reliability and consistency and their performance in a number of applications was evaluated. Computational mutagenesis approach, where the new potentials were used in the machine learning models for predicting protein fitness and activity changes caused by mutations, demonstrated high accuracy of the predictions. In addition, a new method for accurate identification of kinked α-helices by using both geometric and topological parameters was developed.
dc.format.extent145 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/12957
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 Shengyuan Wang
dc.subjectBioinformatics
dc.subjectComputational mutagenesis
dc.subjectDelaunay tessellation
dc.subjectKinked alpha-helix
dc.subjectMachine learning
dc.subjectSynonymous mutations
dc.titleStructural and Topological Variations in Amino Acids Encoded by Synonymous Codons
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineBioinformatics and Computational Biology
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelPh.D.
thesis.degree.namePh.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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