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Table 3 Predictive power of the differences between wild type and variant proteins for different structural properties.

From: Using structural bioinformatics to investigate the impact of non synonymous SNPs and disease mutations: scope and limitations

Property

FPR

TPR

Best MCC

Threshold

MCC90

FoldX energy evaluation

Overall stability difference

73

85

0.15

-0.45

0.14

Overall stability diff. (surface)

0

8

0.2

3.1

0.13

Overall stability diff. (buried)

21

44

0.25

2.64

0.12

Backbone clash

91

99

0.18

-1.00

-0.02

Backbone H bond

59

83

0.26

-0.025

0.06

Sidechain H bond

79

92

0.18

-0.13

-0.14

Electrostatics

6

18

0.18

0.15

0.16

Entropy main chain

6

18

0.18

0.15

0.04

Entropy side chain

64

74

0.11

-0.125

-0.05

Solvation hydrophobic

57

75

0.19

-0.15

-0.03

Solvation polar

22

36

0.15

0.20

-0.05

Torsion clash

1

3

0.07

1.00

-0.05

Van der Waals contribution

7

14

0.11

0.89

0.10

Van der Waals clash

98

100

0.10

-1.60

0.02

Entropy difference by sampling of possible side chain conformations

FoldX entropy difference

85

92

0.11

-1.85

-0.02

FoldX entropy diff. (buried)

96

100

0.14

-2.70

-0.05

FoldX entropy diff. (surface)

37

57

0.20

-0.10

0.02

Aggregation properties

Tango

1

3

0.07

39.9

0

Tango (positive, more aggr.)

14

22

0.10

16.37

0

Tango (negative, less aggr.)

69

78

0.10

-8.00

0

Waltz

0

1

0.07

748.97

0

Waltz (positive, more aggr.)

16

21

0.06

677.15

0

Waltz (negative, less aggr.)

99

100

0.07

-2412.78

0

Limbo

17

33

0.18

5.45

0

  1. FoldX was used to evaluate both the overall stability difference between wild type and variant structure, and the constituting contributions leading to this stability difference. The entropy difference caused by the amino acid substitution was calculated using a sampling strategy to assess the possible side chain conformations allowed at the substitution site. Both stability and entropy difference were calculated for all mutations and for a subset of buried mutations (side chain burial < 0.5) and surface mutations (side chain burial ≥ 0.5). Corresponding ROC curves are shown in Supplementary Figure S2 in Additional file 1.