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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2023

Neural network-derived Potts models for structure-based protein design using backbone atomic coordinates and tertiary motifs.

Alex J Li, Mindren Lu, Israel Desta, Vikram Sundar, Gevorg Grigoryan, Amy E Keating

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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  18. From sequence to function through structure: Deep learning for protein design.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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6 authors.

Alex J LiDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0226-562X
Mindren LuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0715-163X
Israel DestaDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6421-8274
Vikram SundarComputational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9315-8426
Gevorg GrigoryanDepartment of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4645-7666
Amy E KeatingDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4074-8980

Funding

Computational design of novel protein binders based on structure mining and learning from dataR01GM132117 · NIGMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI GRIGORYAN, GEVORG, KEATING, AMY E · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing novel proteins to perform desired functions, such as binding or catalysis, is a major goal in synthetic biology. A variety of computational approaches can aid in this task. An energy-based framework rooted in the sequence-structure statistics of tertiary motifs (TERMs) can be used for sequence design on predefined backbones. Neural network models that use backbone coordinate-derived features provide another way to design new proteins. In this work, we combine the two methods to make neural structure-based models more suitable for protein design. Specifically, we supplement backbone-coordinate features with TERM-derived data, as inputs, and we generate energy functions as outputs. We present two architectures that generate Potts models over the sequence space: TERMinator, which uses both TERM-based and coordinate-based information, and COORDinator, which uses only coordinate-based information. Using these two models, we demonstrate that TERMs can be utilized to improve native sequence recovery performance of neural models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that sequences designed by TERMinator are predicted to fold to their target structures by AlphaFold. Finally, we show that both TERMinator and COORDinator learn notions of energetics, and these methods can be fine-tuned on experimental data to improve predictions. Our results suggest that using TERM-based and coordinate-based features together may be beneficial for protein design and that structure-based neural models that produce Potts energy tables have utility for flexible applications in protein science.

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Neural Networks, ComputerProteinsAmino Acid SequenceProteinsAlphaFoldBcl-2energy based modelinggraph neural networksPotts modelsstructure-based protein designtertiary motifs

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PMID36564857
PMCPMC9854172

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