By: Nathan L. Brouwer, adapted by Rashi Ranjan
Phylogenies can be used to show changing relationships between groups of organisms, exemplifying the similarities and differences between them. Phylogenetic trees use the concept to show evolutionary pathways and connections among organisms.
phylogeny clade node sequence logo pairwise alignment multiple sequence alignment matrix NCBI (databases) shroom accession number
rentrez::entrez_fetch Biostrings::pairwiseAlignment Biostrings::pid compbio4all::entrez_fetch_list Biostrings::AAStringSet
# github packages
library(compbio4all)
library(ggmsa)
# CRAN packages
library(rentrez)
# Bioconductor packages
library(BiocManager)
#### Biostrings
# library(msa) does not workWe’re acquiring the macromolecular sequences given the accession ID. We are also clarifying the type of file we would like that sequence in.
# Human shroom 3 (H. sapiens)
hShroom3 <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(db = "protein",
id = "NP_065910",
rettype = "fasta")Cat() concatenates the representation of the macromolecular sequence and presents it in one bit - this includes the accession ID, the name of the protein, the organism it’s come from, and obviously, its amino acid sequence (we specified that with “protein”).
cat(hShroom3)## >NP_065910.3 protein Shroom3 [Homo sapiens]
## MMRTTEDFHKPSATLNSNTATKGRYIYLEAFLEGGAPWGFTLKGGLEHGEPLIISKVEEGGKADTLSSKL
## QAGDEVVHINEVTLSSSRKEAVSLVKGSYKTLRLVVRRDVCTDPGHADTGASNFVSPEHLTSGPQHRKAA
## WSGGVKLRLKHRRSEPAGRPHSWHTTKSGEKQPDASMMQISQGMIGPPWHQSYHSSSSTSDLSNYDHAYL
## RRSPDQCSSQGSMESLEPSGAYPPCHLSPAKSTGSIDQLSHFHNKRDSAYSSFSTSSSILEYPHPGISGR
## ERSGSMDNTSARGGLLEGMRQADIRYVKTVYDTRRGVSAEYEVNSSALLLQGREARASANGQGYDKWSNI
## PRGKGVPPPSWSQQCPSSLETATDNLPPKVGAPLPPARSDSYAAFRHRERPSSWSSLDQKRLCRPQANSL
## GSLKSPFIEEQLHTVLEKSPENSPPVKPKHNYTQKAQPGQPLLPTSIYPVPSLEPHFAQVPQPSVSSNGM
## LYPALAKESGYIAPQGACNKMATIDENGNQNGSGRPGFAFCQPLEHDLLSPVEKKPEATAKYVPSKVHFC
## SVPENEEDASLKRHLTPPQGNSPHSNERKSTHSNKPSSHPHSLKCPQAQAWQAGEDKRSSRLSEPWEGDF
## QEDHNANLWRRLEREGLGQSLSGNFGKTKSAFSSLQNIPESLRRHSSLELGRGTQEGYPGGRPTCAVNTK
## AEDPGRKAAPDLGSHLDRQVSYPRPEGRTGASASFNSTDPSPEEPPAPSHPHTSSLGRRGPGPGSASALQ
## GFQYGKPHCSVLEKVSKFEQREQGSQRPSVGGSGFGHNYRPHRTVSTSSTSGNDFEETKAHIRFSESAEP
## LGNGEQHFKNGELKLEEASRQPCGQQLSGGASDSGRGPQRPDARLLRSQSTFQLSSEPEREPEWRDRPGS
## PESPLLDAPFSRAYRNSIKDAQSRVLGATSFRRRDLELGAPVASRSWRPRPSSAHVGLRSPEASASASPH
## TPRERHSVTPAEGDLARPVPPAARRGARRRLTPEQKKRSYSEPEKMNEVGIVEEAEPAPLGPQRNGMRFP
## ESSVADRRRLFERDGKACSTLSLSGPELKQFQQSALADYIQRKTGKRPTSAAGCSLQEPGPLRERAQSAY
## LQPGPAALEGSGLASASSLSSLREPSLQPRREATLLPATVAETQQAPRDRSSSFAGGRRLGERRRGDLLS
## GANGGTRGTQRGDETPREPSSWGARAGKSMSAEDLLERSDVLAGPVHVRSRSSPATADKRQDVLLGQDSG
## FGLVKDPCYLAGPGSRSLSCSERGQEEMLPLFHHLTPRWGGSGCKAIGDSSVPSECPGTLDHQRQASRTP
## CPRPPLAGTQGLVTDTRAAPLTPIGTPLPSAIPSGYCSQDGQTGRQPLPPYTPAMMHRSNGHTLTQPPGP
## RGCEGDGPEHGVEEGTRKRVSLPQWPPPSRAKWAHAAREDSLPEESSAPDFANLKHYQKQQSLPSLCSTS
## DPDTPLGAPSTPGRISLRISESVLRDSPPPHEDYEDEVFVRDPHPKATSSPTFEPLPPPPPPPPSQETPV
## YSMDDFPPPPPHTVCEAQLDSEDPEGPRPSFNKLSKVTIARERHMPGAAHVVGSQTLASRLQTSIKGSEA
## ESTPPSFMSVHAQLAGSLGGQPAPIQTQSLSHDPVSGTQGLEKKVSPDPQKSSEDIRTEALAKEIVHQDK
## SLADILDPDSRLKTTMDLMEGLFPRDVNLLKENSVKRKAIQRTVSSSGCEGKRNEDKEAVSMLVNCPAYY
## SVSAPKAELLNKIKEMPAEVNEEEEQADVNEKKAELIGSLTHKLETLQEAKGSLLTDIKLNNALGEEVEA
## LISELCKPNEFDKYRMFIGDLDKVVNLLLSLSGRLARVENVLSGLGEDASNEERSSLYEKRKILAGQHED
## ARELKENLDRRERVVLGILANYLSEEQLQDYQHFVKMKSTLLIEQRKLDDKIKLGQEQVKCLLESLPSDF
## IPKAGALALPPNLTSEPIPAGGCTFSGIFPTLTSPLWe are acquiring three separate macromolecular sequences in the same format.
# Mouse shroom 3a (M. musculus)
mShroom3a <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(db = "protein",
id = "AAF13269",
rettype = "fasta")
# Human shroom 2 (H. sapiens)
hShroom2 <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(db = "protein",
id = "CAA58534",
rettype = "fasta")
# Sea-urchin shroom
sShroom <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(db = "protein",
id = "XP_783573",
rettype = "fasta")We are using the function nchar to determine the number of characters (or amino acids) in each of the sequences.
nchar(hShroom3)## [1] 2070nchar(mShroom3a)## [1] 2083nchar(sShroom)## [1] 1758nchar(hShroom2)## [1] 1673Fasta_cleaner takes the raw FASTA file and stores it into an object while removing the newlines () that add to the character count but aren’t actually an amino acid.
fasta_cleaner## function (fasta_object, parse = TRUE)
## {
## fasta_object <- sub("^(>)(.*?)(\\n)(.*)(\\n\\n)", "\\4",
## fasta_object)
## fasta_object <- gsub("\n", "", fasta_object)
## if (parse == TRUE) {
## fasta_object <- stringr::str_split(fasta_object, pattern = "",
## simplify = FALSE)
## }
## return(fasta_object[[1]])
## }
## <bytecode: 0x1494e8638>
## <environment: namespace:compbio4all>The function can be added to the R file even if the package can’t be downloaded by taking the code for the function and manually creating the function in the .rmd file by using function(), with the arguments inside those parenthesis and definining what the function will be called using <-, the assignment operator.
fasta_cleaner <- function(fasta_object, parse = TRUE){
fasta_object <- sub("^(>)(.*?)(\\n)(.*)(\\n\\n)","\\4",fasta_object)
fasta_object <- gsub("\n", "", fasta_object)
if(parse == TRUE){
fasta_object <- stringr::str_split(fasta_object,
pattern = "",
simplify = FALSE)
}
return(fasta_object[[1]])
}This code chunk runs fasta_cleaner on 4 different shrooms, while parsing, or going through the sequence using different options, like M or F.
hShroom3 <- fasta_cleaner(hShroom3, parse = F)
mShroom3a <- fasta_cleaner(mShroom3a, parse = F)
hShroom2 <- fasta_cleaner(hShroom2, parse = F)
sShroom <- fasta_cleaner(sShroom, parse = F)hShroom3## [1] "MMRTTEDFHKPSATLNSNTATKGRYIYLEAFLEGGAPWGFTLKGGLEHGEPLIISKVEEGGKADTLSSKLQAGDEVVHINEVTLSSSRKEAVSLVKGSYKTLRLVVRRDVCTDPGHADTGASNFVSPEHLTSGPQHRKAAWSGGVKLRLKHRRSEPAGRPHSWHTTKSGEKQPDASMMQISQGMIGPPWHQSYHSSSSTSDLSNYDHAYLRRSPDQCSSQGSMESLEPSGAYPPCHLSPAKSTGSIDQLSHFHNKRDSAYSSFSTSSSILEYPHPGISGRERSGSMDNTSARGGLLEGMRQADIRYVKTVYDTRRGVSAEYEVNSSALLLQGREARASANGQGYDKWSNIPRGKGVPPPSWSQQCPSSLETATDNLPPKVGAPLPPARSDSYAAFRHRERPSSWSSLDQKRLCRPQANSLGSLKSPFIEEQLHTVLEKSPENSPPVKPKHNYTQKAQPGQPLLPTSIYPVPSLEPHFAQVPQPSVSSNGMLYPALAKESGYIAPQGACNKMATIDENGNQNGSGRPGFAFCQPLEHDLLSPVEKKPEATAKYVPSKVHFCSVPENEEDASLKRHLTPPQGNSPHSNERKSTHSNKPSSHPHSLKCPQAQAWQAGEDKRSSRLSEPWEGDFQEDHNANLWRRLEREGLGQSLSGNFGKTKSAFSSLQNIPESLRRHSSLELGRGTQEGYPGGRPTCAVNTKAEDPGRKAAPDLGSHLDRQVSYPRPEGRTGASASFNSTDPSPEEPPAPSHPHTSSLGRRGPGPGSASALQGFQYGKPHCSVLEKVSKFEQREQGSQRPSVGGSGFGHNYRPHRTVSTSSTSGNDFEETKAHIRFSESAEPLGNGEQHFKNGELKLEEASRQPCGQQLSGGASDSGRGPQRPDARLLRSQSTFQLSSEPEREPEWRDRPGSPESPLLDAPFSRAYRNSIKDAQSRVLGATSFRRRDLELGAPVASRSWRPRPSSAHVGLRSPEASASASPHTPRERHSVTPAEGDLARPVPPAARRGARRRLTPEQKKRSYSEPEKMNEVGIVEEAEPAPLGPQRNGMRFPESSVADRRRLFERDGKACSTLSLSGPELKQFQQSALADYIQRKTGKRPTSAAGCSLQEPGPLRERAQSAYLQPGPAALEGSGLASASSLSSLREPSLQPRREATLLPATVAETQQAPRDRSSSFAGGRRLGERRRGDLLSGANGGTRGTQRGDETPREPSSWGARAGKSMSAEDLLERSDVLAGPVHVRSRSSPATADKRQDVLLGQDSGFGLVKDPCYLAGPGSRSLSCSERGQEEMLPLFHHLTPRWGGSGCKAIGDSSVPSECPGTLDHQRQASRTPCPRPPLAGTQGLVTDTRAAPLTPIGTPLPSAIPSGYCSQDGQTGRQPLPPYTPAMMHRSNGHTLTQPPGPRGCEGDGPEHGVEEGTRKRVSLPQWPPPSRAKWAHAAREDSLPEESSAPDFANLKHYQKQQSLPSLCSTSDPDTPLGAPSTPGRISLRISESVLRDSPPPHEDYEDEVFVRDPHPKATSSPTFEPLPPPPPPPPSQETPVYSMDDFPPPPPHTVCEAQLDSEDPEGPRPSFNKLSKVTIARERHMPGAAHVVGSQTLASRLQTSIKGSEAESTPPSFMSVHAQLAGSLGGQPAPIQTQSLSHDPVSGTQGLEKKVSPDPQKSSEDIRTEALAKEIVHQDKSLADILDPDSRLKTTMDLMEGLFPRDVNLLKENSVKRKAIQRTVSSSGCEGKRNEDKEAVSMLVNCPAYYSVSAPKAELLNKIKEMPAEVNEEEEQADVNEKKAELIGSLTHKLETLQEAKGSLLTDIKLNNALGEEVEALISELCKPNEFDKYRMFIGDLDKVVNLLLSLSGRLARVENVLSGLGEDASNEERSSLYEKRKILAGQHEDARELKENLDRRERVVLGILANYLSEEQLQDYQHFVKMKSTLLIEQRKLDDKIKLGQEQVKCLLESLPSDFIPKAGALALPPNLTSEPIPAGGCTFSGIFPTLTSPL"Pairwise alignment compares the sequences of two proteins to show how similar they are by aligning them to their closest possible match.
library(Biostrings)## Loading required package: BiocGenerics## Loading required package: parallel##
## Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'## The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':
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## clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
## parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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## strsplitalign.h3.vs.m3a <- Biostrings::pairwiseAlignment(
hShroom3,
mShroom3a)This object shows how similar the sequences are and assigns them a score; in this case, the score is 2189.934.
align.h3.vs.m3a## Global PairwiseAlignmentsSingleSubject (1 of 1)
## pattern: MMRTTEDFHKPSATLN-SNTATKGRYIYLEAFLE...KAGALALPPNLTSEPIPAGGCTFSGIFPTLTSPL
## subject: MK-TPENLEEPSATPNPSRTPTE-RFVYLEALLE...KAGAISLPPALTGHATPGGTSVFGGVFPTLTSPL
## score: 2189.934This is showing the percent identity that is shared between the sequences that are being aligned. In this case, the percent identity is 70.57%.
# add necessary function
Biostrings::pid(align.h3.vs.m3a)## [1] 70.56511This code chunk is aligning two human shroom proteins instead of a human shroom protein and a mouse shroom protein.
align.h3.vs.h2 <- Biostrings::pairwiseAlignment(
hShroom3,
hShroom2)The score when two human shroom proteins are aligned is much smaller (is a negative value) compared to a human shroom protein and a mouse shroom protein.
score(align.h3.vs.h2)## [1] -5673.853Score takes into account the matching amino acids in addition to the indels to create a final summative score, while perent identity aligns them to give a percentage value.
Biostrings::pid(align.h3.vs.h2)## [1] 33.83277The table gives all the information one needs to perform a search in the database, so all the sequences can be accessed at once.
shroom_table <- c("CAA78718" , "X. laevis Apx" , "xShroom1",
"NP_597713" , "H. sapiens APXL2" , "hShroom1",
"CAA58534" , "H. sapiens APXL", "hShroom2",
"ABD19518" , "M. musculus Apxl" , "mShroom2",
"AAF13269" , "M. musculus ShroomL" , "mShroom3a",
"AAF13270" , "M. musculus ShroomS" , "mShroom3b",
"NP_065910", "H. sapiens Shroom" , "hShroom3",
"ABD59319" , "X. laevis Shroom-like", "xShroom3",
"NP_065768", "H. sapiens KIAA1202" , "hShroom4a",
"AAK95579" , "H. sapiens SHAP-A" , "hShroom4b",
#"DQ435686" , "M. musculus KIAA1202" , "mShroom4",
"ABA81834" , "D. melanogaster Shroom", "dmShroom",
"EAA12598" , "A. gambiae Shroom", "agShroom",
"XP_392427" , "A. mellifera Shroom" , "amShroom",
"XP_783573" , "S. purpuratus Shroom" , "spShroom") #sea urchinThe code chunk is taking all the sequences from the table of accession numbers. This prevents the redundant searching one at a time.
# convert to a matrix
shroom_table_matrix <- matrix(shroom_table,
byrow = T,
nrow = 14)
# convert to a table
shroom_table <- data.frame(shroom_table_matrix,
stringsAsFactors = F)
# Creating columns
names(shroom_table) <- c("accession", "name.orig","name.new")
# Create simplified species names
shroom_table$spp <- "Homo"
shroom_table$spp[grep("laevis",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "Xenopus"
shroom_table$spp[grep("musculus",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "Mus"
shroom_table$spp[grep("melanogaster",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "Drosophila"
shroom_table$spp[grep("gambiae",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "mosquito"
shroom_table$spp[grep("mellifera",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "bee"
shroom_table$spp[grep("purpuratus",shroom_table$name.orig)] <- "sea urchin"This creates a table that is easily readable.
shroom_table## accession name.orig name.new spp
## 1 CAA78718 X. laevis Apx xShroom1 Xenopus
## 2 NP_597713 H. sapiens APXL2 hShroom1 Homo
## 3 CAA58534 H. sapiens APXL hShroom2 Homo
## 4 ABD19518 M. musculus Apxl mShroom2 Mus
## 5 AAF13269 M. musculus ShroomL mShroom3a Mus
## 6 AAF13270 M. musculus ShroomS mShroom3b Mus
## 7 NP_065910 H. sapiens Shroom hShroom3 Homo
## 8 ABD59319 X. laevis Shroom-like xShroom3 Xenopus
## 9 NP_065768 H. sapiens KIAA1202 hShroom4a Homo
## 10 AAK95579 H. sapiens SHAP-A hShroom4b Homo
## 11 ABA81834 D. melanogaster Shroom dmShroom Drosophila
## 12 EAA12598 A. gambiae Shroom agShroom mosquito
## 13 XP_392427 A. mellifera Shroom amShroom bee
## 14 XP_783573 S. purpuratus Shroom spShroom sea urchinThe $ allows us to access only that specific column of the table.
shroom_table$accession## [1] "CAA78718" "NP_597713" "CAA58534" "ABD19518" "AAF13269" "AAF13270"
## [7] "NP_065910" "ABD59319" "NP_065768" "AAK95579" "ABA81834" "EAA12598"
## [13] "XP_392427" "XP_783573"This chunk creates an object with the sequences of each shroom protein from the table.
# add necessary function
shrooms <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(db = "protein",
id = shroom_table$accession,
rettype = "fasta")This is concatenating all the information that we just gathered from the database.
cat(shrooms)This is creating a list of the sequences with their accession number as the header along with some information about the organism it came from. It’s different from the previous chunk because it’s separated and cleanly written rather than all of the sequences “mashed” together.
shrooms_list <- compbio4all::entrez_fetch_list(db = "protein",
id = shroom_table$accession,
rettype = "fasta")This code chunk tells you how many shroom proteins we have in our list.
length(shrooms_list)## [1] 14This cleans the fasta files of each shroom one by one instead of running fasta_cleaner on each shroom separately.
for(i in 1:length(shrooms_list)){
shrooms_list[[i]] <- fasta_cleaner(shrooms_list[[i]], parse = F)
}This comprehensively lists all of the shrooms with their individual names.
# Creates a vector with each of the shrooms separately
shrooms_vector <- rep(NA, length(shrooms_list))
# Rotates through each shroom in the list
for(i in 1:length(shrooms_vector)){
shrooms_vector[i] <- shrooms_list[[i]]
}
# Lists all the accession numbers from the list.
names(shrooms_vector) <- names(shrooms_list)This lists out all of the shrooms individually with the number of characters, the sequence, and the accession ID.
shrooms_vector_ss <- Biostrings::AAStringSet(shrooms_vector)This section of the document will align the multiple sequences of shroom proteins.
This chunk performs the alignment by taking the vector with the number of amino acids, the sequence, and the accession ID.
#shrooms_align <- msa(shrooms_vector_ss,
# method = "ClustalW")This will put the alignment in a visual format so we can see how similar the sequences are using colors.
While I cannot see the output because msa is not working, it is a visual representation of how similar the different shroom proteins are.
#shrooms_alignThis is creating a class and calling it a multiple alignment using a set of fasta sequences.
#class(shrooms_align) <- "AAMultipleAlignment"
#shrooms_align_seqinr <- msaConvert(shrooms_align, type = #"seqinr::alignment")This produces an msa that shows how similar the sequences are in chunks of 60 amino acids.
#print_msa(alignment = shrooms_align_seqinr,
# chunksize = 60)This takes only 100 amino acids (2100-2000) of the sequence.
#ggmsa::ggmsa(shrooms_align, # shrooms_align, NOT shrooms_align_seqinr
# start = 2000,
# end = 2100) This saves the msa as a PDF file in the current working directory.
#msaPrettyPrint(shrooms_align, # alignment
# file = "shroom_msa.pdf", # file name
# y=c(2000, 2100), # range
# askForOverwrite=FALSE)This tells us where R is currently working, or where the current working directory is.
#getwd()