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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Structure-based Predictions of Conformational B Cell Epitopes by Protein Language Model and Deep Learning.

Yuhao Zhang, Zhaoqian Su, Felipe Vilicich, Xiaohan Kuang, Yunchao Liu, Grace Zhang, Yinghao Wu

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7 authors.

Yuhao ZhangData Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37212, TN, USA.
Zhaoqian SuData Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37212, TN, USA.
Felipe VilicichDepartment of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, 10461, NY, USA.
Xiaohan KuangData Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37212, TN, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-9781-1509
Yunchao LiuData Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37212, TN, USA.
Grace ZhangDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 21218, MD, USA.
Yinghao WuDepartment of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, 10461, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1181-5670

Funding

A multiscale model for binding kinetics of membrane receptors on cell surfacesR01GM120238 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI WU, YINGHAO · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
Computational models for the signaling of tumor necrosis factor receptor on cell surfacesR01GM122804 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI WU, YINGHAO · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120238NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122804
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Abstract

Mapping conformational B-cell epitopes remains a central challenge for antibody discovery: experiments are costly and most computational tools trained on generic protein-protein interfaces transfer poorly to antibody-antigen recognition. We introduce a patch-centric framework that predicts epitopes directly on antigen structures. Each surface "patch" is defined as a triad of neighboring residues, capturing the smallest local unit that encodes both shape and chemistry. We evaluate two classifiers: (i) a protein language model (PLM) approach that averages ESM-2 embeddings over each triad and scores them with a small multilayer perceptron [1], and (ii) a convolutional baseline that consumes a hand-crafted

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antibody–antigen interactionB cell epitopedeep learningepitope predictionprotein language model

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