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Sicilia, C.* ; Corral-Lugo, A.* ; Smialowski, P. ; McConnell, M.J.* ; Martín-Galiano, A.J.*

Unsupervised machine learning organization of the functional dark proteome of gram-negative "superbugs": Six protein clusters amenable for distinct scientific applications.

ACS Omega 7, 46131–46145 (2022)

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Uncharacterized proteins have been underutilized as targets for the development of novel therapeutics for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. To facilitate the exploration of these proteins, 2819 predicted, uncharacterized proteins (19.1% of the total) from reference strains of multidrug Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa species were organized using an unsupervised k-means machine learning algorithm. Classification using normalized values for protein length, pI, hydrophobicity, degree of conservation, structural disorder, and %AT of the coding gene rendered six natural clusters. Cluster proteins showed different trends regarding operon membership, expression, presence of unknown function domains, and interactomic relevance. Clusters 2, 4, and 5 were enriched with highly disordered proteins, nonworkable membrane proteins, and likely spurious proteins, respectively. Clusters 1, 3, and 6 showed closer distances to known antigens, antibiotic targets, and virulence factors. Up to 21.8% of proteins in these clusters were structurally covered by modeling, which allowed assessment of druggability and discontinuous B-cell epitopes. Five proteins (4 in Cluster 1) were potential druggable targets for antibiotherapy. Eighteen proteins (11 in Cluster 6) were strong B-cell and T-cell immunogen candidates for vaccine development. Conclusively, we provide a feature-based schema to fractionate the functional dark proteome of critical pathogens for fundamental and biomedical purposes.

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Publication type Article: Journal article

Document type Scientific Article

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ISSN (print) / ISBN 2470-1343

e-ISSN 2470-1343

Journal ACS Omega

Quellenangaben Volume: 7, Issue: 50, Pages: 46131–46145

Publisher American Chemical Society (ACS)

Non-patent literature Publications

Reviewing status Peer reviewed

Institute(s) Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISF)

Grants Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Comunidad de Madrid