Single-sequence protein structure prediction by integrating protein language models

Protein structure prediction has been greatly improved by deep learning in the past few years. However, the most successful methods rely on multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of the sequence homologs of the protein under prediction. In nature, a protein folds in the absence of its sequence homologs and thus, a MSA-free structure prediction method is desired. Here, we develop a single-sequence-based protein structure prediction method RaptorX-Single by integrating several protein language models and a structure generation module and then study its advantage over MSA-based methods. Our experimental results indicate that in addition to running much faster than MSA-based methods such as AlphaFold2, RaptorX-Single outperforms AlphaFold2 and other MSA-free methods in predicting the structure of antibodies (after fine-tuning on antibody data), proteins of very few sequence homologs, and single mutation effects. By comparing different protein language models, our results show that not only the scale but also the training data of protein language models will impact the performance. RaptorX-Single also compares favorably to MSA-based AlphaFold2 when the protein under prediction has a large number of sequence homologs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 121(2024), 13 vom: 26. März, Seite e2308788121

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jing, Xiaoyang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Fandi [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jinbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies
Antibody structure prediction
Journal Article
Protein language model
Protein structure prediction
Proteins
Single mutation effect
Single-sequence protein structure rediction

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Date Completed 22.03.2024

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2308788121

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369970489