# Copyright 2012 by Eric Talevich. All rights reserved. # This code is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by its # license. Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included # as part of this package. import collections import warnings from Bio.Alphabet import generic_protein from Bio.Seq import Seq from Bio.SeqRecord import SeqRecord from Bio.Data.SCOPData import protein_letters_3to1 def PdbSeqresIterator(handle): """Returns SeqRecord objects for each chain in a PDB file. The sequences are derived from the SEQRES lines in the PDB file header, not the atoms of the 3D structure. Specifically, these PDB records are handled: DBREF, SEQADV, SEQRES, MODRES See: http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect3.html """ # Late-binding import to avoid circular dependency on SeqIO in Bio.SeqUtils from Bio.SeqUtils import seq1 chains = collections.defaultdict(list) metadata = collections.defaultdict(list) for line in handle: rec_name = line[0:6].strip() if rec_name == 'SEQRES': # NB: We only actually need chain ID and the residues here; # commented bits are placeholders from the wwPDB spec. # Serial number of the SEQRES record for the current chain. # Starts at 1 and increments by one each line. # Reset to 1 for each chain. # ser_num = int(line[8:10]) # Chain identifier. This may be any single legal character, # including a blank which is used if there is only one chain. chn_id = line[11] # Number of residues in the chain (repeated on every record) # num_res = int(line[13:17]) residues = [seq1(res, custom_map=protein_letters_3to1) for res in line[19:].split()] chains[chn_id].extend(residues) elif rec_name == 'DBREF': # ID code of this entry (PDB ID) pdb_id = line[7:11] # Chain identifier. chn_id = line[12] # Initial sequence number of the PDB sequence segment. # seq_begin = int(line[14:18]) # Initial insertion code of the PDB sequence segment. # icode_begin = line[18] # Ending sequence number of the PDB sequence segment. # seq_end = int(line[20:24]) # Ending insertion code of the PDB sequence segment. # icode_end = line[24] # Sequence database name. database = line[26:32].strip() # Sequence database accession code. db_acc = line[33:41].strip() # Sequence database identification code. db_id_code = line[42:54].strip() # Initial sequence number of the database seqment. # db_seq_begin = int(line[55:60]) # Insertion code of initial residue of the segment, if PDB is the # reference. # db_icode_begin = line[60] # Ending sequence number of the database segment. # db_seq_end = int(line[62:67]) # Insertion code of the ending residue of the segment, if PDB is the # reference. # db_icode_end = line[67] metadata[chn_id].append({'pdb_id': pdb_id, 'database': database, 'db_acc': db_acc, 'db_id_code': db_id_code}) # ENH: 'SEQADV' 'MODRES' for chn_id, residues in sorted(chains.items()): record = SeqRecord(Seq(''.join(residues), generic_protein)) record.annotations = {"chain": chn_id} if chn_id in metadata: m = metadata[chn_id][0] record.id = record.name = "%s:%s" % (m['pdb_id'], chn_id) record.description = ("%s:%s %s" % (m['database'], m['db_acc'], m['db_id_code'])) for melem in metadata[chn_id]: record.dbxrefs.extend([ "%s:%s" % (melem['database'], melem['db_acc']), "%s:%s" % (melem['database'], melem['db_id_code'])]) else: record.id = chn_id yield record def PdbAtomIterator(handle): """Returns SeqRecord objects for each chain in a PDB file The sequences are derived from the 3D structure (ATOM records), not the SEQRES lines in the PDB file header. Unrecognised three letter amino acid codes (e.g. "CSD") from HETATM entries are converted to "X" in the sequence. In addition to information from the PDB header (which is the same for all records), the following chain specific information is placed in the annotation: record.annotations["residues"] = List of residue ID strings record.annotations["chain"] = Chain ID (typically A, B ,...) record.annotations["model"] = Model ID (typically zero) Where amino acids are missing from the structure, as indicated by residue numbering, the sequence is filled in with 'X' characters to match the size of the missing region, and None is included as the corresponding entry in the list record.annotations["residues"]. This function uses the Bio.PDB module to do most of the hard work. The annotation information could be improved but this extra parsing should be done in parse_pdb_header, not this module. """ # Only import PDB when needed, to avoid/delay NumPy dependency in SeqIO from Bio.PDB import PDBParser from Bio.SeqUtils import seq1 def restype(residue): """Return a residue's type as a one-letter code. Non-standard residues (e.g. CSD, ANP) are returned as 'X'. """ return seq1(residue.resname, custom_map=protein_letters_3to1) # Deduce the PDB ID from the PDB header # ENH: or filename? from Bio.File import UndoHandle undo_handle = UndoHandle(handle) firstline = undo_handle.peekline() if firstline.startswith("HEADER"): pdb_id = firstline[62:66] else: warnings.warn("First line is not a 'HEADER'; can't determine PDB ID") pdb_id = '????' struct = PDBParser().get_structure(pdb_id, undo_handle) model = struct[0] for chn_id, chain in sorted(model.child_dict.items()): # HETATM mod. res. policy: remove mod if in sequence, else discard residues = [res for res in chain.get_unpacked_list() if seq1(res.get_resname().upper(), custom_map=protein_letters_3to1) != "X"] if not residues: continue # Identify missing residues in the structure # (fill the sequence with 'X' residues in these regions) gaps = [] rnumbers = [r.id[1] for r in residues] for i, rnum in enumerate(rnumbers[:-1]): if rnumbers[i+1] != rnum + 1: # It's a gap! gaps.append((i+1, rnum, rnumbers[i+1])) if gaps: res_out = [] prev_idx = 0 for i, pregap, postgap in gaps: if postgap > pregap: gapsize = postgap - pregap - 1 res_out.extend(restype(x) for x in residues[prev_idx:i]) prev_idx = i res_out.append('X'*gapsize) else: warnings.warn("Ignoring out-of-order residues after a gap", UserWarning) # Keep the normal part, drop the out-of-order segment # (presumably modified or hetatm residues, e.g. 3BEG) res_out.extend(restype(x) for x in residues[prev_idx:i]) break else: # Last segment res_out.extend(restype(x) for x in residues[prev_idx:]) else: # No gaps res_out = [restype(x) for x in residues] record_id = "%s:%s" % (pdb_id, chn_id) # ENH - model number in SeqRecord id if multiple models? # id = "Chain%s" % str(chain.id) # if len(structure) > 1 : # id = ("Model%s|" % str(model.id)) + id record = SeqRecord(Seq(''.join(res_out), generic_protein), id=record_id, description=record_id, ) # The PDB header was loaded as a dictionary, so let's reuse it all record.annotations = struct.header.copy() # Plus some chain specifics: record.annotations["model"] = model.id record.annotations["chain"] = chain.id # Start & end record.annotations["start"] = int(rnumbers[0]) record.annotations["end"] = int(rnumbers[-1]) # ENH - add letter annotations -- per-residue info, e.g. numbers yield record if __name__ == '__main__': # Test import sys from Bio import SeqIO for fname in sys.argv[1:]: for parser in (PdbSeqresIterator, PdbAtomIterator): with open(fname) as handle: records = parser(handle) SeqIO.write(records, sys.stdout, 'fasta')