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ArticlePLoS computational biology2024

Transferable deep generative modeling of intrinsically disordered protein conformations.

Giacomo Janson, Michael Feig

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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  12. Accurate conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins using reweighting based on NMR chemical shifts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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Giacomo JansonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.
Michael FeigDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9380-6422

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Modeling and dynamics of biomolecules on cellular scalesR35GM126948 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Michael Feig · 2018 to 2026
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NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM126948
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins have dynamic structures through which they play key biological roles. The elucidation of their conformational ensembles is a challenging problem requiring an integrated use of computational and experimental methods. Molecular simulations are a valuable computational strategy for constructing structural ensembles of disordered proteins but are highly resource-intensive. Recently, machine learning approaches based on deep generative models that learn from simulation data have emerged as an efficient alternative for generating structural ensembles. However, such methods currently suffer from limited transferability when modeling sequences and conformations absent in the training data. Here, we develop a novel generative model that achieves high levels of transferability for intrinsically disordered protein ensembles. The approach, named idpSAM, is a latent diffusion model based on transformer neural networks. It combines an autoencoder to learn a representation of protein geometry and a diffusion model to sample novel conformations in the encoded space. IdpSAM was trained on a large dataset of simulations of disordered protein regions performed with the ABSINTH implicit solvent model. Thanks to the expressiveness of its neural networks and its training stability, idpSAM faithfully captures 3D structural ensembles of test sequences with no similarity in the training set. Our study also demonstrates the potential for generating full conformational ensembles from datasets with limited sampling and underscores the importance of training set size for generalization. We believe that idpSAM represents a significant progress in transferable protein ensemble modeling through machine learning.

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Computational BiologyIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsNeural Networks, ComputerProtein ConformationAlgorithmsDatabases, ProteinDeep LearningMachine LearningModels, MolecularIntrinsically Disordered Proteins

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PMID38781245
PMCPMC11152266

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