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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Application of Protein Structure Encodings and Sequence Embeddings for Transporter Substrate Prediction.

Andreas Denger, Volkhard Helms

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Andreas DengerCenter for Bioinformatics, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9114-3992
Volkhard HelmsCenter for Bioinformatics, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2180-9154

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Abstract

Membrane transporters play a crucial role in any cell. Identifying the substrates they translocate across membranes is important for many fields of research, such as metabolomics, pharmacology, and biotechnology. In this study, we leverage recent advances in deep learning, such as amino acid sequence embeddings with protein language models (pLMs), highly accurate 3D structure predictions with AlphaFold 2, and structure-encoding 3Di sequences from FoldSeek, for predicting substrates of membrane transporters. We test new deep learning features derived from both sequence and structure, and compare them to the previously best-performing protein encodings, which were made up of amino acid k-mer frequencies and evolutionary information from PSSMs. Furthermore, we compare the performance of these features either using a previously developed SVM model, or with a regularized feedforward neural network (FNN). When evaluating these models on sugar and amino acid carriers in

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Membrane Transport ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceArabidopsisComputational BiologyDeep LearningHumansModels, MolecularNeural Networks, ComputerProtein ConformationSubstrate SpecificityMembrane Transport ProteinsAlphaFolddeep learningfeature extractiongene ontologymachine learningmembrane bioinformaticsmembrane transportprotein function predictionprotein language modelsubstrate prediction

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PMID40807401
PMCPMC12348419

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