Wrap-and-Pack: A New Paradigm for Beta Structural Motif Recognition with Application to Recognizing Beta Trefoils

A method is presented that uses beta-strand interactions at both the sequence and the atomic level, to predict beta-structural motifs of protein sequences. A program called Wrap-and- Pack implements this method and is shown to recognize beta-trefoils, an important class of globular beta-structures, in the Protein Data Bank with 92% specificity and 92.3% sensitivity in cross-validation. It is demonstrated that Wrap-and-Pack learns each of the ten known SCOP beta-trefoil families, when trained primarily on beta-structures that are not beta-trefoils, together with three-dimensional structures of known beta-trefoils from outside the family. Wrap-and-Pack also predicts many proteins of unknown structure to be beta-trefoils. The computational method used here may generalize to other beta-structures for which strand topology and profiles of residue accessibility are well conserved.

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