Membrane Proteins
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For clarity, we overview the analytical workflows for each data type below:
Single-cell gene expression: We analyze scRNA-seq data using standard pipelines in Seurat which include normalization, feature selection, and dimensional reduction with PCA. We then construct a KNN graph after dimensional reduction.
Single-cell cell surface protein level expression: We analyze single-cell protein data (representing the quantification of antibody-derived tags (ADTs) in CITE-seq or ASAP-seq data) using a similar workflow to scRNA-seq. We normalize protein expression levels within a cell using the centered-log ratio (CLR) transform, followed by dimensional reduction with PCA, and subsequently construct a KNN graph. Unless otherwise specified, we do not perform feature selection on protein data, and use all measured proteins during dimensional reduction.
Single-cell chromatin accessibility: We analyze single-cell ATAC-seq data using our previously described workflow (Stuart et al., 2019 (link)), as implemented in the Signac package. We reduced the dimensionality of the scATAC-seq data by performing latent semantic indexing (LSI) on the scATAC-seq peak matrix, as suggested by Cusanovich et al. (2018) (link). We first computed the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) of the peak matrix by dividing the accessibility of each peak in each cell by the total accessibility in the cell (the “term frequency”), and multiplied this by the inverse accessibility of the peak in the cell population. This step ‘upweights’ the contribution of highly variable peaks and down-weights peaks that are accessible in all cells. We then multiplied these values by 10,000 and log-transformed this TF-IDF matrix, adding a pseudocount of 1 to avoid computing the log of 0. We decomposed the TF-IDF matrix via SVD to return LSI components, and scaled LSI loadings for each LSI component to mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
New subcategory SCLs predicted by PSORTb 3.0
SCL subcategories | Description |
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Host-associated | Any proteins destined to the host cell cytoplasm, cell membrane or nucleus by any of the bacterial secretion systems |
Type III secretion | Components of the Type III secretion apparatus |
Fimbrial | Components of a bacterial or archaeal fimbrium or pilus |
Flagellar | Components of a bacterial or archaeal flagellum |
Spore | Components of a spore |
All SVMs, except for the Gram-negative outer membrane SVM module and Gram-positive cytoplasmic SVM module, were retrained with the new dataset following the protocols of PSORTb 2.0 paper (Gardy et al., 2005 (link)). The aforementioned two SVMs were not updated because the new SVMs did not improve significantly in performance when retrained. For PSORTb 2.0, we made use of an implementation of generalized suffix tree (Wang et al., 1994 ) to extract frequent subsequences, which occur in more than a predefined fraction of total number of proteins of interest. These frequent subsequences were used as features to discriminate localizations of related proteins. The implementation first sampled a subset of related proteins, then extracted frequent subsequences from this subset and finally checked whether these frequent subsequences were frequent in all related proteins. This method may miss some frequent subsequences or produce false positives. To overcome this issue, we used another augmentation of generalized suffix tree (Matias et al., 1998 ). The algorithm guarantees returning all the frequent subsequences and its running time is in the order of the total length of the related protein sequences.
A Bayesian network combines all module predictions and generates one final localization result based on the performance accuracies of each of the updated modules.
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Example 6
TbpB and NMB0313 genes were amplified from the genome of Neisseria meningitidis serotype B strain B16B6. The LbpB gene was amplified from Neisseria meningitidis serotype B strain MC58. Full length TbpB was inserted into Multiple Cloning Site 2 of pETDuet using restriction free cloning ((F van den Ent, J. Löwe, Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods (Jan. 1, 2006)).). NMB0313 was inserted into pET26, where the native signal peptide was replaced by that of pelB. Mutations and truncations were performed on these vectors using site directed mutagenesis and restriction free cloning, respectively. Pairs of vectors were transformed into E. coli C43 and were grown overnight in LB agar plates supplemented with kanamycin (50 μg/mL) and ampicillin (100 μg/mL).
tbpB genes were amplified from the genomes of M. catarrhalis strain 035E and H. influenzae strain 86-028NP and cloned into the pET52b plasmid by restriction free cloning as above. The corresponding SLAMs (M. catarrhalis SLAM 1, H. influenzae SLAM1) were inserted into pET26b also using restriction free cloning. A 6His-tag was inserted between the pelB and the mature SLAM sequences as above. Vectors were transformed into E. coli C43 as above.
Cells were harvested by centrifugation at 4000 g and were twice washed with 1 mL PBS to remove any remaining growth media. Cells were then incubated with either 0.05-0.1 mg/mL biotinylated human transferrin (Sigma-aldrich T3915-5 MG), α-TbpB (1:200 dilution from rabbit serum for M. catarrhalis and H. influenzae; 1:10000 dilution from rabbit serum for N. meningitidis), or α-LbpB (1:10000 dilution from rabbit serum-obtained a gift from J. Lemieux) or α-fHbp (1:5000 dilution from mouse, a gift from D. Granoff) for 1.5 hours at 4° C., followed by two washes with 1 mL of PBS. The cells were then incubated with R-Phycoerythrin-conjugated Streptavidin (0.5 mg/ml Cedarlane) or R-phycoerythrin conjugated Anti-rabbit IgG (Stock 0.5 mg/ml Rockland) at 25 ug/mL for 1.5 hours at 4° C. The cells were then washed with 1 mL PBS and resuspended in 200 uL fixing solution (PBS+2% formaldehyde) and left for 20 minutes. Finally, cells were washed with 2×1 mL PBS and transferred to 5 mL polystyrene FACS tubes. The PE fluorescence of each sample was measured for PE fluorescence using a Becton Dickinson FACSCalibur. The results were analyzed using FLOWJO software and were presented as mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) for each sample. For N. meningtidis experiments, all samples were compared to wildtype strains by normalizing wildtype fluorescent signals to 100%. Errors bars represent the standard error of the mean (SEM) across three experiments. Results were plotted statistically analysed using GraphPad Prism 5 software. The results shown in
To obtain the periplasmic proteins, 250 µl of 14.3% aqueous trichloroacetic acid solution (w/v in H2O) were added to 1 ml of the supernatants containing the periplasmic proteins and incubated on ice for 30 min. After centrifugation for 5 min at 4 °C and 14,000 × g, the supernatant was discarded. The pellets were washed twice by adding 400 µl acetone, centrifuging at 14,000 × g and 4 °C for 5 min and discarding the acetone. The pellets were dried at 95 °C for 1 min, then resuspended in 36 µl H2O. 12 µl 4x Laemmli buffer with 10% β-mercaptoethanol were added and the samples incubated for 10 min at 95 °C prior to loading on an SDS polyacrylamide gel.
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These integral or peripheral proteins are embedded in or associated with the cell membrane, playing vital roles in signaling, transport, and adhesion.
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