Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38801076›Full record

ArticleNucleic acids research2024

AggreProt: a web server for predicting and engineering aggregation prone regions in proteins.

Joan Planas-Iglesias, Simeon Borko, Jan Swiatkowski, Matej Elias, Martin Havlasek, Ondrej Salamon, Ekaterina Grakova, Antonín Kunka, Tomas Martinovic, Jiri Damborsky and 2 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Systematic optimization ofEngineering microbiology · 2026
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Predicting Peptide Aggregation with Protein Language Model Embeddings.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Analyses of exon 4a structure reveal unique properties of Big tau.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Joan Planas-IglesiasLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Simeon BorkoLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0009-0001-3122-810X
Jan SwiatkowskiIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0009-0003-1510-9551
Matej EliasIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.
Martin HavlasekLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Ondrej SalamonIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8458-0051
Ekaterina GrakovaIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-2469-4524
Antonín KunkaLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Tomas MartinovicIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-0132-1434
Jiri DamborskyLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-7848-8216
Jan MartinovicIT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-7944-8956
David BednarLoschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-6803-0340

Funding

European Union - Next Generation EU LX22NPO5Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 857560Ministry of Education CETOCOEN EXCELLENCE CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_043/0009Technology Agency of the Czech Republic FW03010208
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recombinant proteins play pivotal roles in numerous applications including industrial biocatalysts or therapeutics. Despite the recent progress in computational protein structure prediction, protein solubility and reduced aggregation propensity remain challenging attributes to design. Identification of aggregation-prone regions is essential for understanding misfolding diseases or designing efficient protein-based technologies, and as such has a great socio-economic impact. Here, we introduce AggreProt, a user-friendly webserver that automatically exploits an ensemble of deep neural networks to predict aggregation-prone regions (APRs) in protein sequences. Trained on experimentally evaluated hexapeptides, AggreProt compares to or outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on two independent benchmark datasets. The server provides per-residue aggregation profiles along with information on solvent accessibility and transmembrane propensity within an intuitive interface with interactive sequence and structure viewers for comprehensive analysis. We demonstrate AggreProt efficacy in predicting differential aggregation behaviours in proteins on several use cases, which emphasize its potential for guiding protein engineering strategies towards decreased aggregation propensity and improved solubility. The webserver is freely available and accessible at https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/aggreprot/.

Indexed as

InternetProtein AggregatesSoftwareAlgorithmsNeural Networks, ComputerProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringProtein FoldingProteinsSolubilityProtein AggregatesProteins

Identifiers

PMID38801076
PMCPMC11223854

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.