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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

Peptide-Aware Chemical Language Model Successfully Predicts Membrane Diffusion of Cyclic Peptides.

Aaron L Feller, Claus O Wilke

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. HELM-BERT: Topology-Aware Representations for Chemically Modified Peptides.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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2 authors.

Aaron L FellerInterdisciplinary Life Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4476-1026
Claus O WilkeInterdisciplinary Life Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.

Funding

Investigating nanobodies to target multidrug resistant bacterial pathogensR01AI148419 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI DAVIES, BRYAN WILLIAM · 2020 to 2023
$2.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148419
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Language modeling applied to biological data has significantly advanced the prediction of membrane penetration for small-molecule drugs and natural peptides. However, accurately predicting membrane diffusion for peptides with pharmacologically relevant modifications remains a substantial challenge. Here, we introduce PeptideCLM, a peptide-focused chemical language model capable of encoding peptides with chemical modifications, unnatural or noncanonical amino acids, and cyclizations. We assess this model by predicting membrane diffusion of cyclic peptides, demonstrating greater predictive power than existing chemical language models. Our model is versatile and can be extended beyond membrane diffusion predictions to other target values. Its advantages include the ability to model macromolecules using chemical string notation, a largely unexplored domain, and a simple, flexible architecture that allows for adaptation to any peptide or other macromolecule data set.

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Cell MembraneModels, ChemicalPeptides, CyclicDiffusionPeptides, Cyclic

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PMID39772542
PMCPMC11971985

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