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ArticleNature communications2024

Multi-modal deep learning enables efficient and accurate annotation of enzymatic active sites.

Xiaorui Wang, Xiaodan Yin, Dejun Jiang, Huifeng Zhao, Zhenxing Wu, Odin Zhang, Jike Wang, Yuquan Li, Yafeng Deng, Huanxiang Liu and 5 more

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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15 authors.

Xiaorui WangInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6893-2013
Xiaodan YinInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
Dejun JiangInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2035-5074
Huifeng ZhaoInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
Zhenxing WuInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1060-5957
Odin ZhangInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
Jike WangInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
Yuquan LiCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2756-0449
Yafeng DengCarbonSilicon AI Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China.
Huanxiang LiuFaculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, 999078, China.
Pei LuoNeher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078, China.
Yuqiang HanDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China.
Tingjun HouInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China. tingjunhou@zju.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-7227-2580
Xiaojun YaoFaculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, 999078, China. xjyao@mpu.edu.mo.
Chang-Yu HsiehInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China. kimhsieh@zju.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-6242-4218

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Annotating active sites in enzymes is crucial for advancing multiple fields including drug discovery, disease research, enzyme engineering, and synthetic biology. Despite the development of numerous automated annotation algorithms, a significant trade-off between speed and accuracy limits their large-scale practical applications. We introduce EasIFA, an enzyme active site annotation algorithm that fuses latent enzyme representations from the Protein Language Model and 3D structural encoder, and then aligns protein-level information with the knowledge of enzymatic reactions using a multi-modal cross-attention framework. EasIFA outperforms BLASTp with a 10-fold speed increase and improved recall, precision, f1 score, and MCC by 7.57%, 13.08%, 9.68%, and 0.1012, respectively. It also surpasses empirical-rule-based algorithm and other state-of-the-art deep learning annotation method based on PSSM features, achieving a speed increase ranging from 650 to 1400 times while enhancing annotation quality. This makes EasIFA a suitable replacement for conventional tools in both industrial and academic settings. EasIFA can also effectively transfer knowledge gained from coarsely annotated enzyme databases to smaller, high-precision datasets, highlighting its ability to model sparse and high-quality databases. Additionally, EasIFA shows potential as a catalytic site monitoring tool for designing enzymes with desired functions beyond their natural distribution.

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AlgorithmsCatalytic DomainDeep LearningEnzymesComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinMolecular Sequence AnnotationEnzymes

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