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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Domainator, a flexible software suite for domain-based annotation and neighborhood analysis, identifies proteins involved in antiviral systems.

Sean R Johnson, Peter R Weigele, Alexey Fomenkov, Andrew Ge, Anna Vincze, James B Eaglesham, Richard J Roberts, Zhiyi Sun

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. 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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Sean R JohnsonNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8261-9015
Peter R WeigeleNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3696-4541
Alexey FomenkovNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2463-5946
Andrew GeNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.
Anna VinczeNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.
James B EagleshamNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5725-0743
Richard J RobertsNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4348-0169
Zhiyi SunNew England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6106-5356

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of large databases of biological sequences presents an opportunity for in-depth exploration of gene diversity and function. Bacterial defense systems are a rich source of diverse but difficult to annotate genes with biotechnological applications. In this work, we present Domainator, a flexible and modular software suite for domain-based gene neighborhood and protein search, extraction and clustering. We demonstrate the utility of Domainator through three examples related to bacterial defense systems. First, we cluster CRISPR-associated Rossman fold (CARF) containing proteins with difficult to annotate effector domains, classifying most of them as likely transcriptional regulators and a subset as likely RNases. Second, we extract and cluster P4-like phage satellite defense hotspots, identify an abundant variant of Lamassu defense systems and demonstrate its in vivo activity against several T-even phages. Third, we integrate a protein language model into Domainator and use it to identify restriction endonucleases with low similarity to known reference sequences, validating the activity of one example in vitro. Domainator is made available as an open-source package with detailed documentation and usage examples.

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Bacterial ProteinsMolecular Sequence AnnotationSoftwareBacteriophagesCRISPR-Associated ProteinsProtein DomainsBacterial ProteinsCRISPR-Associated Proteins

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