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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

DeepProSite: structure-aware protein binding site prediction using ESMFold and pretrained language model.

Yitian Fang, Yi Jiang, Leyi Wei, Qin Ma, Zhixiang Ren, Qianmu Yuan, Dong-Qing Wei

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Yitian FangState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200040, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4644-1464
Yi JiangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
Leyi WeiSchool of Software, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1444-190X
Qin MaDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
Zhixiang RenPeng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Qianmu YuanSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China.
Dong-Qing WeiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200040, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4200-7502

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Abstract

motivationIdentifying the functional sites of a protein, such as the binding sites of proteins, peptides, or other biological components, is crucial for understanding related biological processes and drug design. However, existing sequence-based methods have limited predictive accuracy, as they only consider sequence-adjacent contextual features and lack structural information.

resultsIn this study, DeepProSite is presented as a new framework for identifying protein binding site that utilizes protein structure and sequence information. DeepProSite first generates protein structures from ESMFold and sequence representations from pretrained language models. It then uses Graph Transformer and formulates binding site predictions as graph node classifications. In predicting protein-protein/peptide binding sites, DeepProSite outperforms state-of-the-art sequence- and structure-based methods on most metrics. Moreover, DeepProSite maintains its performance when predicting unbound structures, in contrast to competing structure-based prediction methods. DeepProSite is also extended to the prediction of binding sites for nucleic acids and other ligands, verifying its generalization capability. Finally, an online server for predicting multiple types of residue is established as the implementation of the proposed DeepProSite. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The datasets and source codes can be accessed at https://github.com/WeiLab-Biology/DeepProSite. The proposed DeepProSite can be accessed at https://inner.wei-group.net/DeepProSite/.

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