Predicting metal-binding proteins and structures through integration of evolutionary-scale and physics-based modeling
Journal of Molecular Biology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 168962 - 168962
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
MERIT: Accurate prediction of multi ligand-binding residues with hybrid deep transformer network, evolutionary couplings and transfer learning
Journal of Molecular Biology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 168872 - 168872
Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
bindNode24: Competitive binding residue prediction with 60% smaller model
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
27, С. 1060 - 1066
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Many
proteins
function
through
ligand
binding.
Yet,
reliable
experimental
binding
data
remains
limited.
Recent
advances
predict
residues
from
sequences
using
protein
Language
Model
embeddings.
The
AlphaFold
Protein
Structure
Database,
which
has
3D
structure
predictions
AlphaFold2,
opens
the
way
for
graph
neural
networks
that
residues.
Here,
we
introduce
bindNode24,
a
new
method
Graph
Neural
Networks
to
whether
residue
binds
any
of
three
classes:
small
molecules,
metal
ions,
and
nucleic
macromolecules.
Compared
state-of-the-art,
this
approach
reduces
number
free
parameters
by
almost
60
%
at
similar
performance.
Our
findings
also
suggest
secondary
tertiary
features
AlphaFold2
are
easy
integrate
into
prediction
tasks
previously
solely
relied
on
Язык: Английский
Predicting metal-protein interactions using cofolding methods: Status quo
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2024
Abstract
Metals
play
important
roles
for
enzyme
function
and
many
therapeutically
relevant
proteins.
Despite
the
fact
that
first
drugs
developed
via
computer
aided
drug
design
were
metalloprotein
inhibitors,
computational
pipelines
discovery
still
discard
metalloproteins
due
to
difficulties
of
modelling
them
computationally.
New
“cofolding”
methods
such
as
AlphaFold3
(AF3)
(
Abramson
et
al.,
2024
)
RoseTTAfold-AllAtom
(RFAA)
Krishna
promise
improve
this
issue
by
being
able
dock
small
molecules
in
presence
multiple
complex
cofactors
including
metals
or
covalent
modifications.
Here,
we
analyze
current
status
metal
ion
prediction
using
these
methods.
We
find
currently
only
AF3
provides
realistic
predictions
ions,
RFAA
contrast
does
perform
worse
than
more
specialized
models
AllMetal3D
predicting
location
ions
accurately.
are
consistent
with
expected
physico-chemical
trends/intuition
whereas
often
also
predicts
unrealistic
locations.
Язык: Английский
MetaLATTE: Metal Binding Prediction via Multi-Task Learning on Protein Language Model Latents
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Июнь 29, 2024
Abstract
The
bioremediation
of
environments
contaminated
with
heavy
metals
is
an
important
challenge
in
environmental
biotechnology,
which
may
benefit
from
the
identification
proteins
that
bind
and
neutralize
these
metals.
Here,
we
introduce
a
novel
predictive
algorithm
conducts
Metal
binding
prediction
via
LA
nguage
model
la
T
en
E
mbeddings
using
multi-task
learning
approach
to
accurately
classify
metal-binding
properties
input
protein
sequences.
Our
MetaLATTE
utilizes
state-of-the-art
ESM-2
language
(pLM)
embeddings
position-sensitive
attention
mechanism
predict
likelihood
specific
metals,
such
as
zinc,
lead,
mercury.
Importantly,
our
addresses
challenges
posed
by
understudied
organisms,
are
often
absent
traditional
databases,
without
requirement
structure.
By
providing
probability
distribution
over
potential
classifier
elucidates
interactions
diverse
metal
ions.
We
envision
will
serve
powerful
tool
for
rapidly
screening
identifying
new
proteins,
metagenomic
discovery
or
de
novo
design
efforts,
can
later
be
employed
targeted
campaigns.
Язык: Английский
Predict metal-binding proteins and structures through integration of evolutionary-scale and physics-based modeling
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Авг. 10, 2024
ABSTRACT
Metals
are
essential
elements
in
all
living
organisms,
binding
to
approximately
50%
of
proteins.
They
serve
stabilize
proteins,
catalyze
reactions,
regulate
activities,
and
fulfill
various
physiological
pathological
functions.
While
there
have
been
many
advancements
determining
the
structures
protein-metal
complexes,
numerous
metal-binding
proteins
still
need
be
identified
through
computational
methods
validated
experiments.
To
address
this
need,
we
developed
ESMBind
workflow,
which
combines
evolutionary
scale
modeling
(ESM)
for
prediction
physics-based
modeling.
Our
approach
utilizes
ESM-2
ESM-IF
models
predict
probability
at
residue
level.
In
addition,
designed
a
metal-placement
method
energy
minimization
technique
generate
detailed
3D
complexes.
workflow
outperforms
other
terms
3D-level
predictions.
demonstrate
its
effectiveness,
applied
142
uncharacterized
fungal
pathogen
predicted
involved
infection
virulence.
Язык: Английский