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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2024

Physics-Based Machine Learning Trains Hamiltonians and Decodes the Sequence-Conformation Relation in the Disordered Proteome.

Lilianna Houston, Michael Phillips, Andrew Torres, Kari Gaalswyk, Kingshuk Ghosh

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  2. Mapping Charge Interactions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. A protein dynamics-based deep learning model enhances predictions of fitness and epistasis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Lilianna HoustonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States.
Michael PhillipsDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0587-6880
Andrew TorresDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States.
Kari GaalswykDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States.
Kingshuk GhoshDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4976-0986

Funding

Modeling Conformational Ensembles of the Disordered ProteinsR01GM138901 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI GHOSH, KINGSHUK · 2020 to 2024
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM138901
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs) are involved in vital biological processes. To understand the IDP function, often controlled by conformation, we need to find the link between sequence and conformation. We decode this link by integrating theory, simulation, and machine learning (ML) where sequence-dependent electrostatics is modeled analytically while nonelectrostatic interaction is extracted from simulations for many sequences and subsequently trained using ML. The resulting Hamiltonian, combining physics-based electrostatics and machine-learned nonelectrostatics, accurately predicts sequence-specific global and local measures of conformations beyond the original observable used from the simulation. This is in contrast to traditional ML approaches that train and predict a specific observable, not a Hamiltonian. Our formalism reproduces experimental measurements, predicts multiple conformational features directly from sequence with high throughput that will give insights into IDP design and evolution, and illustrates the broad utility of using physics-based ML to train unknown parts of a Hamiltonian, rather than a specific observable, in combination with known physics.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsMachine LearningMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationProteomeStatic ElectricityIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProteome

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PMID39504303
PMCPMC12257546

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