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Homologous Pairs of Low and High Temperature Originating Proteins Spanning the Known Prokaryotic Universe

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Komp, Evan, Alanzi, Humood, Francis, Ryan, Vuong, Chau, Roberts, Logan, Mossallenejad, Amin, Beck, David A. C.·2023·Scientific Data
DOI 10.1101/2023.08.24.554664PMC PMC10560248

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Stability of proteins at high temperature has been a topic of interest for many years, as this attribute is favourable for applications ranging from therapeutics to industrial chemical manufacturing. Our current understanding and methods for designing high-temperature stability into target proteins are inadequate. To drive innovation in this space, we have curated a large dataset, learn2thermDB, of protein-temperature examples, totalling 24 million instances, and paired proteins across temperatures based on homology, yielding 69 million protein pairs - orders of magnitude larger than the current largest. This important step of pairing allows for study of high-temperature stability in a sequence-dependent manner in the big data era. The data pipeline is parameterized and open, allowing it to be tuned by downstream users. We further show that the data contains signal for deep learning. This data offers a new doorway towards thermal stability design models.

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Fig. 1 The taxonomic and protein space covered by the protein homologous pairs (N = 69 mil) within the dataset. Left) NCBI taxonomic breakdown of the dataset88. The outer ring depicts super kingdom, Phylum, Class, and Order, where the size of wedges indicates the number of organisms in the classification that contain at least one protein in a learn2therm protein pair. Highly populated Phylum and Class are labelled. The inner ring moving inward is a histogram of the number of proteins participating in pairs per organism followed by a colour mapping labelling organisms as mesophilic in blue and thermophilic in red. Central connections indicate taxa pairs contributing to protein pairs. Right) Two dimensional mapping (using t-SNE) of a sample protein space as determined by Evolutionary Scale Model (ESM) embeddings89. In blue, a sample of data from the ESM Atlas with highest structural confidence. Note that this data contains eukaryotic proteins. In yellow, our proteins in pairs, and in orange, the current largest set of protein pairs across temperature. Size of samples conserves relative size of our proteins vs. the Atlas and reference dataset. For details of the mapping procedure, see Supplementary Information S8.
Fig. 1 The taxonomic and protein space covered by the protein homologous pairs (N = 69 mil) within the dataset. Left) NCBI taxonomic breakdown of the dataset88. The outer ring depicts super kingdom, Phylum, Class, and Order, where the size of wedges indicates the number of organisms in the classification that contain at least one protein in a learn2therm protein pair. Highly populated Phylum and Class are labelled. The inner ring moving inward is a histogram of the number of proteins participating in pairs per organism followed by a colour mapping labelling organisms as mesophilic in blue and thermophilic in red. Central connections indicate taxa pairs contributing to protein pairs. Right) Two dimensional mapping (using t-SNE) of a sample protein space as determined by Evolutionary Scale Model (ESM) embeddings89. In blue, a sample of data from the ESM Atlas with highest structural confidence. Note that this data contains eukaryotic proteins. In yellow, our proteins in pairs, and in orange, the current largest set of protein pairs across temperature. Size of samples conserves relative size of our proteins vs. the Atlas and reference dataset. For details of the mapping procedure, see Supplementary Information S8.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 2 The data distribution as a function of difference in growth temperature between items. top) Histogram of difference in OGT between pairs of organisms. The data is skewed towards 0, but there are still many pairs with temperature differences >30 °C. bottom) Count of protein pairs remaining as minimum OGT difference is increased. We still retain 14 mil protein pairs with OGT difference >30 °C.
Fig. 2 The data distribution as a function of difference in growth temperature between items. top) Histogram of difference in OGT between pairs of organisms. The data is skewed towards 0, but there are still many pairs with temperature differences >30 °C. bottom) Count of protein pairs remaining as minimum OGT difference is increased. We still retain 14 mil protein pairs with OGT difference >30 °C.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 3 Workflow for labelling homologous protein pairs across temperature. Raw data includes RefSeq. 16s rRNA sequences, OGT labels from Engqvist, UniProtKB proteome metadata and proteins. Proteome metadata is parsed to identify a single proteome for highly represented organisms, while retaining data for weakly studied taxa. Proteins are filtered such that only ones from the chosen proteomes and for which we have OGT are kept. Protein pair search space is filtered by first identifying pairs of related organisms via 16s rRNA alignment. Protein pairs are searched for by alignment of sequences. Final database tables are taxa, pairs of meso/thermo taxa, proteins, and pairs of meso/thermo proteins.
Fig. 3 Workflow for labelling homologous protein pairs across temperature. Raw data includes RefSeq. 16s rRNA sequences, OGT labels from Engqvist, UniProtKB proteome metadata and proteins. Proteome metadata is parsed to identify a single proteome for highly represented organisms, while retaining data for weakly studied taxa. Proteins are filtered such that only ones from the chosen proteomes and for which we have OGT are kept. Protein pair search space is filtered by first identifying pairs of related organisms via 16s rRNA alignment. Protein pairs are searched for by alignment of sequences. Final database tables are taxa, pairs of meso/thermo taxa, proteins, and pairs of meso/thermo proteins.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 4 Abbreviated schema for the presented database. The taxa table contains NCBI taxonomic information, from superkingdom to species, as well as 16s rRNA sequence and OGT. The protein table contains protein sequence and external database links. The taxa_pairs and pairs table contain metrics for alignment for 16s rRNA sequences and protein sequences, respectively.
Fig. 4 Abbreviated schema for the presented database. The taxa table contains NCBI taxonomic information, from superkingdom to species, as well as 16s rRNA sequence and OGT. The protein table contains protein sequence and external database links. The taxa_pairs and pairs table contain metrics for alignment for 16s rRNA sequences and protein sequences, respectively.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 5 Melting temperature vs OGT, using data from two third party databases. The black dashed line is identity, and almost all examples fall on the side of TM > OGT. The adage that melting temperature is greater than OGT is clearly supported, with a Spearman’s of 0.85 (P value 0.0), and a binomial test of >99% chance of passing with alternative P-value 2.68e−19.
Fig. 5 Melting temperature vs OGT, using data from two third party databases. The black dashed line is identity, and almost all examples fall on the side of TM > OGT. The adage that melting temperature is greater than OGT is clearly supported, with a Spearman’s of 0.85 (P value 0.0), and a binomial test of >99% chance of passing with alternative P-value 2.68e−19.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 6 Comparison of protein pair quality between our data and Hait et al.’s 1660 protein pairs52. (a) Empirical distribution of local alignment homology as bit score normalised to the average length of both protein strands. Our data has a right shifted score on average with t-test probability = 1.94e−8. (b) Same as A, except with percent identity. Our data has a right shifted score on average with t-test probability = 1.75e−6. (c) Empirical distribution of Jaccard score over Pfam annotations for our data (blue) compared to the baseline data (orange). Our full data has more annotation mismatches on average. When only the 25 mil protein pairs with BLAST coverage >95% are considered, the Pfam annotations become indistinguishable from the baseline with t-test probability = 3.24e−13. (d) Cumulative distribution of FATCAT structural alignment P-value for bins in BLAST coverage uniformly sampled from our data, compared to the baseline structural alignments. Even low coverage pairs are more likely to have less than one in a thousand P-value with binomial confidence >99%.
Fig. 6 Comparison of protein pair quality between our data and Hait et al.’s 1660 protein pairs52. (a) Empirical distribution of local alignment homology as bit score normalised to the average length of both protein strands. Our data has a right shifted score on average with t-test probability = 1.94e−8. (b) Same as A, except with percent identity. Our data has a right shifted score on average with t-test probability = 1.75e−6. (c) Empirical distribution of Jaccard score over Pfam annotations for our data (blue) compared to the baseline data (orange). Our full data has more annotation mismatches on average. When only the 25 mil protein pairs with BLAST coverage >95% are considered, the Pfam annotations become indistinguishable from the baseline with t-test probability = 3.24e−13. (d) Cumulative distribution of FATCAT structural alignment P-value for bins in BLAST coverage uniformly sampled from our data, compared to the baseline structural alignments. Even low coverage pairs are more likely to have less than one in a thousand P-value with binomial confidence >99%.CC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 7 Predictions on our test set by TemStaPro79. Thermophilic label is > = 60 °C versus < 30 °C. The model makes very few predictions between these two quantities where there is no data, as expected, and is able to recover the actual classes with 91% accuracy.
Fig. 7 Predictions on our test set by TemStaPro79. Thermophilic label is > = 60 °C versus < 30 °C. The model makes very few predictions between these two quantities where there is no data, as expected, and is able to recover the actual classes with 91% accuracy.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors
Komp, E., Alanzi, H., Francis, R., Vuong, C., Roberts, L., Mossallenejad, A., & Beck, D. A. C.
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University of Washington (US)
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  • Komp, Evan
  • Beck, David A. C.
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Scientific Data
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openRxiv
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2023-08-26
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10
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1
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682-682
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2052-4463 (ISSN-L)
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10.1101/2023.08.24.554664
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PMC10560248
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  • National Science Foundation (1934292)
  • University of Washington
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
Keywords
protein thermal stability, prokaryotic proteins, protein design, deep learning, protein sequence data
MeSH terms
Prokaryotic Cells, Proteins, Temperature, Protein Stability

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