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ArticleCell systems2026

Disobind: A sequence-based, partner-dependent contact map and interface residue predictor for intrinsically disordered regions.

Kartik Majila, Varun Ullanat, Shruthi Viswanath

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Kartik MajilaNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India. Electronic address: kartikm@ncbs.res.in.
Varun UllanatNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India.
Shruthi ViswanathNational Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India. Electronic address: shruthiv@ncbs.res.in.

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Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins or regions (IDPs or IDRs) adopt diverse binding modes with different partners, ranging from coupled folding and binding to fuzzy binding and fully disordered binding. Characterizing IDR interfaces is challenging both experimentally and computationally. State-of-the-art tools such as AlphaFold multimer and AlphaFold3 can be used to predict IDR binding sites, although they are less accurate at their benchmarked confidence cutoffs. Here, we developed Disobind, a deep-learning method that predicts inter-protein contact maps and interface residues for an IDR and its partner, given their sequences. It uses sequence embeddings from the ProtT5 protein language model. Disobind outperforms state-of-the-art interface predictors for IDRs. It also outperforms AlphaFold multimer and AlphaFold3 at multiple confidence cutoffs. Combining Disobind and AlphaFold-multimer predictions further improves performance. In contrast to current methods, Disobind considers the context of the binding partner and does not depend on structures and multiple sequence alignments. Its predictions can be used to localize IDRs in large assemblies and characterize IDR-mediated interactions.

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Computational BiologyIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesDeep LearningModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein FoldingIntrinsically Disordered Proteinsdeep learningDLIDPIDRintrinsically disordered proteinsintrinsically disordered regionspLMsprotein language modelprotein structure

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