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- Title
Generating interacting protein sequences using domain-to-domain translation.
- Authors
Meynard-Piganeau, Barthelemy; Fabbri, Caterina; Weigt, Martin; Pagnani, Andrea; Feinauer, Christoph
- Abstract
Motivation Being able to artificially design novel proteins of desired function is pivotal in many biological and biomedical applications. Generative statistical modeling has recently emerged as a new paradigm for designing amino acid sequences, including in particular models and embedding methods borrowed from natural language processing (NLP). However, most approaches target single proteins or protein domains, and do not take into account any functional specificity or interaction with the context. To extend beyond current computational strategies, we develop a method for generating protein domain sequences intended to interact with another protein domain. Using data from natural multidomain proteins, we cast the problem as a translation problem from a given interactor domain to the new domain to be generated, i.e. we generate artificial partner sequences conditional on an input sequence. We also show in an example that the same procedure can be applied to interactions between distinct proteins. Results Evaluating our model's quality using diverse metrics, in part related to distinct biological questions, we show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art shallow autoregressive strategies. We also explore the possibility of fine-tuning pretrained large language models for the same task and of using Alphafold 2 for assessing the quality of sampled sequences. Availability and implementation Data and code on https://github.com/barthelemymp/Domain2DomainProteinTranslation.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE models; AMINO acid sequence; NATURAL language processing; PROTEIN domains; EMBEDDING theorems; PROTEIN engineering
- Publication
Bioinformatics, 2023, Vol 39, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1367-4803
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btad401