Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning-Assisted Enzyme Engineering
ACS Central Science,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
10(2), С. 226 - 241
Опубликована: Фев. 5, 2024
Enzymes
can
be
engineered
at
the
level
of
their
amino
acid
sequences
to
optimize
key
properties
such
as
expression,
stability,
substrate
range,
and
catalytic
efficiency-or
even
unlock
new
activities
not
found
in
nature.
Because
search
space
possible
proteins
is
vast,
enzyme
engineering
usually
involves
discovering
an
starting
point
that
has
some
desired
activity
followed
by
directed
evolution
improve
its
"fitness"
for
a
application.
Recently,
machine
learning
(ML)
emerged
powerful
tool
complement
this
empirical
process.
ML
models
contribute
(1)
discovery
functional
annotation
known
protein
or
generating
novel
with
functions
(2)
navigating
fitness
landscapes
optimization
mappings
between
associated
values.
In
Outlook,
we
explain
how
complements
discuss
future
potential
improved
outcomes.
Язык: Английский
ESM-Scan - a tool to guide amino acid substitutions
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 12, 2023
ABSTRACT
Protein
structure
prediction
and
(re)design
have
gone
through
a
revolution
in
the
last
three
years.
The
tremendous
progress
these
fields
has
been
almost
exclusively
driven
by
readily
available
machine-learning
algorithms
applied
to
protein
folding
sequence
design
problems.
Despite
advancements,
predicting
site-specific
mutational
effects
on
stability
function
remains
an
unsolved
problem.
This
is
persistent
challenge
mainly
because
free
energy
of
large
systems
very
difficult
compute
with
absolute
accuracy
subtle
changes
structures
are
also
hard
capture
computational
models.
Here,
we
describe
implementation
use
ESM-Scan,
which
uses
ESM
zero-shot
predictor
scan
entire
sequences
for
preferential
amino
acid
changes,
thus
enabling
in-silico
deep
scanning
experiments.
We
benchmark
ESM-Scan
its
predictive
capabilities
functionality
using
publicly
datasets
proceed
experimentally
evaluating
tool’s
performance
challenging
test
case
blue-light-activated
diguanylate
cyclase
from
Methylotenera
species
(
Ms
LadC).
used
predict
conservative
highly
conserved
region
this
enzyme
responsible
allosteric
product
inhibition.
Our
experimental
results
show
that
ESM-zero
shot
model
emerges
as
robust
method
inferring
impact
substitutions,
especially
when
evolutionary
functional
insights
intertwined.
at
https://huggingface.co/spaces/thaidaev/zsp
Язык: Английский
ESM‐scan—A tool to guide amino acid substitutions
Protein Science,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
33(12)
Опубликована: Ноя. 20, 2024
Protein
structure
prediction
and
(re)design
have
gone
through
a
revolution
in
the
last
3
years.
The
tremendous
progress
these
fields
has
been
almost
exclusively
driven
by
readily
available
machine
learning
algorithms
applied
to
protein
folding
sequence
design
problems.
Despite
advancements,
predicting
site-specific
mutational
effects
on
stability
function
remains
an
unsolved
problem.
This
is
persistent
challenge,
mainly
because
free
energy
of
large
systems
very
difficult
compute
with
absolute
accuracy
subtle
changes
structures
are
hard
capture
computational
models.
Here,
we
describe
implementation
use
ESM-Scan,
which
uses
ESM
zero-shot
predictor
scan
entire
sequences
for
preferential
amino
acid
changes,
thus
enabling
silico
deep
scanning
experiments.
We
benchmark
ESM-Scan
its
predictive
capabilities
functionality
using
three
publicly
datasets
proceed
experimentally
testing
tool's
performance
challenging
test
case
blue-light-activated
diguanylate
cyclase
from
Methylotenera
species
(MsLadC),
where
it
accurately
predicted
importance
highly
conserved
residue
region
involved
allosteric
product
inhibition.
Our
experimental
results
show
that
ESM-zero
shot
model
capable
inferring
set
substitutions
their
correlation
between
fitness
results.
at
https://huggingface.co/spaces/thaidaev/zsp.
Язык: Английский