Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4497184 Journal of Theoretical Biology 2011 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
Cell membranes provide integrity of living cells. Although the stability of biological membrane is maintained by the lipid bilayer, membrane proteins perform most of the specific functions such as signal transduction, transmembrane transport, etc. Then it is plausible membrane proteins being attractive drug targets. In this article, based on the concept of using the pseudo-amino acid composition to define a protein, three different density similarities are developed for predicting the membrane protein type. The predicted results showed that the proposed approach can remarkably improve the accuracy, and might become a useful tool for predicting the other attributes of proteins as well.
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