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An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions
Protein phase separation is increasingly understood to be an important mechanism of biological organization and biomaterial formation. Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) are often significant drivers of protein phase separation. A number of protein phase-separation-prediction algorithms...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009025 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081131 |
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author | Cai, Hao Vernon, Robert M. Forman-Kay, Julie D. |
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description | Protein phase separation is increasingly understood to be an important mechanism of biological organization and biomaterial formation. Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) are often significant drivers of protein phase separation. A number of protein phase-separation-prediction algorithms are available, with many being specific for particular classes of proteins and others providing results that are not amenable to the interpretation of the contributing biophysical interactions. Here, we describe LLPhyScore, a new predictor of IDR-driven phase separation, based on a broad set of physical interactions or features. LLPhyScore uses sequence-based statistics from the RCSB PDB database of folded structures for these interactions, and is trained on a manually curated set of phase-separation-driving proteins with different negative training sets including the PDB and human proteome. Competitive training for a variety of physical chemical interactions shows the greatest contribution of solvent contacts, disorder, hydrogen bonds, pi–pi contacts, and kinked beta-structures to the score, with electrostatics, cation–pi contacts, and the absence of a helical secondary structure also contributing. LLPhyScore has strong phase-separation-prediction recall statistics and enables a breakdown of the contribution from each physical feature to a sequence’s phase-separation propensity, while recognizing the interdependence of many of these features. The tool should be a valuable resource for guiding experiments and providing hypotheses for protein function in normal and pathological states, as well as for understanding how specificity emerges in defining individual biomolecular condensates. |
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spelling | pubmed-94055632022-08-26 An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions Cai, Hao Vernon, Robert M. Forman-Kay, Julie D. Biomolecules Article Protein phase separation is increasingly understood to be an important mechanism of biological organization and biomaterial formation. Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) are often significant drivers of protein phase separation. A number of protein phase-separation-prediction algorithms are available, with many being specific for particular classes of proteins and others providing results that are not amenable to the interpretation of the contributing biophysical interactions. Here, we describe LLPhyScore, a new predictor of IDR-driven phase separation, based on a broad set of physical interactions or features. LLPhyScore uses sequence-based statistics from the RCSB PDB database of folded structures for these interactions, and is trained on a manually curated set of phase-separation-driving proteins with different negative training sets including the PDB and human proteome. Competitive training for a variety of physical chemical interactions shows the greatest contribution of solvent contacts, disorder, hydrogen bonds, pi–pi contacts, and kinked beta-structures to the score, with electrostatics, cation–pi contacts, and the absence of a helical secondary structure also contributing. LLPhyScore has strong phase-separation-prediction recall statistics and enables a breakdown of the contribution from each physical feature to a sequence’s phase-separation propensity, while recognizing the interdependence of many of these features. The tool should be a valuable resource for guiding experiments and providing hypotheses for protein function in normal and pathological states, as well as for understanding how specificity emerges in defining individual biomolecular condensates. MDPI 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9405563/ /pubmed/36009025 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081131 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cai, Hao Vernon, Robert M. Forman-Kay, Julie D. An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title | An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title_full | An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title_fullStr | An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title_full_unstemmed | An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title_short | An Interpretable Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Disordered Protein Phase Separation Based on Biophysical Interactions |
title_sort | interpretable machine-learning algorithm to predict disordered protein phase separation based on biophysical interactions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009025 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081131 |
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