Only from the primary structures of peptides, a new set of descriptors called the molecular electro-negativity edge-distance vector (VMED) was proposed and applied to describing and characterizing the molecular struct...
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Only from the primary structures of peptides, a new set of descriptors called the molecular electro-negativity edge-distance vector (VMED) was proposed and applied to describing and characterizing the molecular structures of oligopeptides and polypeptides, based on the electronegativity of each atom or electronic charge index (ECI) of atomic clusters and the bonding distance between atom-pairs. Here, the molecular structures of antigenic polypeptides were well expressed in order to propose the auto-mated technique for the computerized identification of helper T lymphocyte (Th) epitopes. Furthermore, a modified MED vector was proposed from the primary structures of polypeptides, based on the ECI and the relative bonding distance of the fundamental skeleton groups. The side-chains of each amino acid were here treated as a pseudo-atom. The developed VMED was easy to calculate and able to work. Some quantitative model was established for 28 immunogenic or antigenic polypeptides (AGPP) with 14 (1― 14) Ad and 14 other restricted activities assigned as "1"(+) and "0"(-), respectively. The latter comprised 6 Ab(15-20), 3 Ak(21-23), 2 Ek(24-26), 2 H-2k(27 and 28) restricted sequences. Good results were obtained with 90% correct classification (only 2 wrong ones for 20 training samples) and 100% correct prediction(none wrong for 8 testing samples); while con-trastively 100% correct classification (none wrong for 20 training samples) and 88% correct classification (1 wrong for 8 testing samples). Both stochastic samplings and cross valida-tions were performed to demonstrate good performance. The described method may also be suitable for estimation and prediction of classes I and II for major histocompatibility an-tigen (MHC) epitope of human. It will be useful in immune identification and recognition of pro-teins and genes and in the design and devel-opment of subunit vaccines. Several quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) models were developed for various oligop
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