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Deep-Learning Structure Elucidation from Single-Mutant Deep Mutational Scanning

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Deep learning has revolutionized the field of protein structure prediction. AlphaFold2, a deep neural network, vastly outperformed previous algorithms to provide near atomic-level accuracy when predicting protein structures. Despite its success, there still are limitations which prevent accurate predictions for numerous protein systems. Here we show that sparse residue burial restraints from deep mutational scanning (DMS) can refine AlphaFold2 to significantly enhance results. Burial information extracted from DMS is used to explicitly guide residue placement during structure generation. DMS-Fold was validated on both simulated and experimental single-mutant DMS, with DMS-Fold outperforming AlphaFold2 for 89% of protein targets and with 253 proteins having an improvement greater than 0.1 in TM-score. DMS-Fold is free and publicly available: https://github.com/LindertLab/DMS-Fold .

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Metadata

Authors
Drake, Z. C., Day, E., Toth, P., & Lindert, S.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • The Ohio State University (US)
Corresponding author
Lindert, Steffen
Venue
Nature Communications
Publisher
openRxiv
Published
2024-05-19
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
6874-6874
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4412707732
Cited by
10
References
1
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2026: 6 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2
FWCI
2.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Keywords
protein structure prediction, deep mutational scanning, AlphaFold2, residue burial, TM-score, protein structure refinement
MeSH terms
Deep Learning, Algorithms, Models, Molecular, Mutation, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Protein Folding, Computational Biology

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