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ArticleGigaScience2022

Integrating deep mutational scanning and low-throughput mutagenesis data to predict the impact of amino acid variants.

Yunfan Fu, Justin Bedő, Anthony T Papenfuss, Alan F Rubin

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  2. Supervised learning of protein variant effects across large-scale mutagenesis datasets.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  3. Predicting interacting hotspots for nanobodies' binding using triplets of residues.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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Yunfan FuThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Bioinformatics Division, 1G Royal Pde, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2449-7034
Justin BedőThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Bioinformatics Division, 1G Royal Pde, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5704-0212
Anthony T PapenfussThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Bioinformatics Division, 1G Royal Pde, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1102-8506
Alan F RubinThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Bioinformatics Division, 1G Royal Pde, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1474-605X

Funding

Technology to understand genetic variant effects in contextRM1HG010461 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Douglas M Fowler, Bruce Colston Trapnell · 2019 to 2026
$18.9M
The Center for Actionable Variant Analysis; measuring variant function at scaleUM1HG011969 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Douglas M Fowler, Lea Starita · 2021 to 2026
$9.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG010461NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG011969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEvaluating the impact of amino acid variants has been a critical challenge for studying protein function and interpreting genomic data. High-throughput experimental methods like deep mutational scanning (DMS) can measure the effect of large numbers of variants in a target protein, but because DMS studies have not been performed on all proteins, researchers also model DMS data computationally to estimate variant impacts by predictors.

resultsIn this study, we extended a linear regression-based predictor to explore whether incorporating data from alanine scanning (AS), a widely used low-throughput mutagenesis method, would improve prediction results. To evaluate our model, we collected 146 AS datasets, mapping to 54 DMS datasets across 22 distinct proteins.

conclusionsWe show that improved model performance depends on the compatibility of the DMS and AS assays, and the scale of improvement is closely related to the correlation between DMS and AS results.

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Amino AcidsGenomicsLinear ModelsMutagenesisMutationAmino Acidsalanine scanningdeep mutational scanningmachine learningpredictor

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PMID37721410
PMCPMC10506130

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