SMOPredT4SE: An Effective Prediction of Bacterial Type IV Secreted Effectors Using SVM Training With SMO

Various bacterial pathogens can deliver their secreted effectors to host cells via type IV secretion system (T4SS) and cause host diseases. Since T4SS secreted effectors (T4SEs) play important roles in the interaction between pathogens and host, identifying T4SEs is crucial to understanding of the pathogenic mechanism of T4SS. We established an effective predictor called SMOPredT4SE to identify T4SEs from protein sequences. SMOPredT4SE employed combination features of series correlation pseudo amino acid composition and position-specific scoring matrix to present protein sequences, and employed support vector machines (SVM) training with sequential minimal optimization (SMO) arithmetic to train the prediction model (To distinguish it from the traditional SVM, we will abbreviate it as SMO later). In the 5-fold cross-validation test, SMOPredT4SE’s overall accuracy was 95.6%. Experiments on comparison with other feature, classifiers, and existing methods are conducted. Experimental results show the effectiveness of SMOPredT4SE in predicting T4SEs.