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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2023

AggBERT: Best in Class Prediction of Hexapeptide Amyloidogenesis with a Semi-Supervised ProtBERT Model.

Ryann Perez, Xinning Li, Sam Giannakoulias, E James Petersson

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Predicting Peptide Aggregation with Protein Language Model Embeddings.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  2. PLM-eXplain: divide and conquer the protein embedding space.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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4 authors.

Ryann PerezDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.
Xinning LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.
Sam GiannakouliasDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1830-6369
E James PeterssonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3854-9210

Funding

Predoctoral Training at the Chemistry-Biology InterfaceT32GM133398 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Ronen Marmorstein, Ernest James Petersson · 2020 to 2026
$2.4M
Studying Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease Using Synthetic ProteinsR01NS103873 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Ernest James Petersson · 2019 to 2026
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM133398NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS103873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prediction of peptide amyloidogenesis is a challenging problem in the field of protein folding. Large language models, such as the ProtBERT model, have recently emerged as powerful tools in analyzing protein sequences for applications, such as predicting protein structure and function. In this article, we describe the use of a semisupervised and fine-tuned ProtBERT model to predict peptide amyloidogenesis from sequences alone. Our approach, which we call AggBERT, achieved state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating the potential for large language models to improve the accuracy and speed of amyloid fibril prediction over simple heuristics or structure-based approaches. This work highlights the transformative potential of machine learning and large language models in the fields of chemical biology and biomedicine.

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Machine LearningPeptidesAmino Acid SequenceAmyloidHeuristicsSupervised Machine LearningAmyloidPeptides

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PMID37552230
PMCPMC10777593

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