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Robust deep learning–based protein sequence design using ProteinMPNN
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Abstract
Although deep learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction, almost all experimentally characterized de novo protein designs have been generated using physically based approaches such as Rosetta. Here, we describe a deep learning–based protein sequence design method, ProteinMPNN, that has outstanding performance in both in silico and experimental tests. On native protein backbones, ProteinMPNN has a sequence recovery of 52.4% compared with 32.9% for Rosetta. The amino acid sequence at different positions can be coupled between single or multiple chains, enabling application to a wide range of current protein design challenges. We demonstrate the broad utility and high accuracy of ProteinMPNN using x-ray crystallography, cryo–electron microscopy, and functional studies by rescuing previously failed designs, which were made using Rosetta or AlphaFold, of protein monomers, cyclic homo-oligomers, tetrahedral nanoparticles, and target-binding proteins.
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ProteinMPNN is a deep learning–based protein sequence design method that uses a message-passing neural network with order-agnostic decoding and symmetry-aware coupling to design sequences for monomers, oligomers, nanoparticles, and interfaces. It achieves higher native sequence recovery than Rosetta and rescues previously failed experimental designs across multiple protein design challenges.
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- On native protein backbones, ProteinMPNN achieved 52.4% sequence recovery versus 32.9% for Rosetta, while requiring only 1.2 seconds versus 4.3 minutes for a 100-residue protein.
- Median sequence recovery was 52% for monomers, 55% for homomers, and 51% for heteromers; recovery ranged from 90–95% in the deep core to 35% on the surface.
- Training with backbone noise improved robustness: a model trained with 0.3 Å noise generated 2–3 times more sequences with AlphaFold predictions within lDDT-Ca of 95.0 and 90.0 of the true structures than unnoised or slightly noised models.
- Experimental rescue of AlphaFold-generated designs: of 96 designs produced in E. coli, 73 were soluble (median soluble yield 247 mg/L vs. 9 mg/L for AF sequences) and 50 had the target monomeric or oligomeric state; for C5/C6 cyclic oligomers, ProteinMPNN designs were 88% soluble with 27.7% correct oligomeric state versus 40% soluble and none correct for Rosetta designs.
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- ProteinMPNN is based on a message-passing neural network with 3 encoder and 3 decoder layers and 128 hidden dimensions, using backbone features including Ca-Ca distances, relative frame orientations, dihedral angles, and added N, Ca, C, O, and virtual Cb distances; edge updates and order-agnostic autoregressive decoding were introduced.
- Training used protein assemblies from the PDB (as of Aug 02, 2021) determined by X-ray crystallography or cryoEM to better than 3.5 Å resolution and with fewer than 10,000 residues, clustered at 30% sequence identity with mmseqs2, yielding 25,361 clusters; monomer training/validation used 19.7k high-resolution single-chain structures split by CATH.
- Evaluation included in silico test sets of 402 monomer backbones for Rosetta comparison and 690 monomers, 732 homomers (<2000 residues), and 98 heteromers, plus experimental characterization by E. coli expression, SEC, SEC-MALS, X-ray crystallography, cryoEM, and biolayer interferometry.
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- The paper states that in silico metrics such as native sequence recovery are sensitive to crystallographic resolution and may not correlate with proper folding; even a single residue substitution can block folding.
- The paper notes that deep learning methods lack the physical transparency of methods like Rosetta.
- The text does not include a dedicated limitations section; evident from the text, experimental validation covers selected design challenges and backbones, and not all designed sequences were structurally characterized.
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“we found that the AF generated sequences were mostly insoluble (median soluble yield: 9 mg per liter of culture equivalent Figure 3A).”
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“This resulted in a sequence recovery increase from 41.2% (baseline model) to 49.0% (experiment 1), see Table 1 below”
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“Combining additional input features and edge updates leads to a sequence recovery of 50.5% (experiment 3).”
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“Although requiring only a small fraction of the compute time (1.2 seconds versus 4.3 minutes for 100 residues)”
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“ProteinMPNN solves sequence design problems in a small fraction of the time (1.2 sec vs 258.8 sec on a single CPU for a 100 residue protein) required for physically based approaches such as Rosetta”
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“found that performance saturated at 32–48 neighbors.”
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“sequences encoded by noised ProteinMPNN models are more accurately decoded into 3D coordinates by AlphaFold”
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“with improvements across the full range of residue burial from protein core to surface”
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“a model trained with 0.3Å noise generated 2–3 times more sequences with AlphaFold predictions within lDDT-Ca (14) of 95.0 and 90.0 of the true structures than unnoised or slightly noised models (Figure 2C).”
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“The accuracy was particularly high in the central core of the structure, with sidechains predicted using AlphaFold from the ProteinMPNN sequence fitting nearly perfectly into the electron density (Figure 3D).”
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“the strength of the single sequence to structure mapping, as assessed by AlphaFold, was higher for models trained with additional backbone noise.”
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“Machine learning sequence design approaches have been developed previously (1–6, 6a), notably the previously described message passing method on which ProteinMPNN is based, but have focused on the monomer design problem, achieve lower native sequence recoveries, and with the exception of a TIM barrel design study (6) have not been extensively validated using crystallography and cryoEM to evaluate”
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“Whereas only a small fraction of the original Rosetta designed sequences were predicted to fold to the design target structures, following ProteinMPNN redesign the majority were confidently predicted to fold to close to the design target structures (Figure 2F).”
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“unconstrained design without symmetry, averaged probabilities, and averaged logits resulted in 52%, 53%, and 55% median sequence recoveries respectively (Figure S1C).”
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“The median overall sequences recoveries were 52% for monomers, 55% for homomers, and 51% for heteromers (Figure 2B).”
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“Many of the proteins were highly thermo-stable, with secondary structure being maintained up to 95 °C (Figure 3B).”
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“The alpha-beta protein structure contains 5 beta strands and 4 alpha helices, and is close to the design target backbone (2.35 Å over 130 residues)”
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“of 96 designs produced in E. coli, 73 were expressed solubly (median soluble yield: 247 mg per liter of culture equivalent, Figure 3A) and 50 had the target monomeric or oligomeric state as assessed by SEC (Figure 3A,C).”
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“training models on backbones to which Gaussian noise (std=0.02Å) had been added improved sequence recovery on confident protein structure models generated by AlphaFold (average pLDDT>80.0) from UniRef50, while the sequence recovery on unperturbed PDB structures decreased as expected (Table 1).”
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“Biolayer interferometry experiments showed strong binding to the Grb2 SH3 domain (Figure 4B), with considerably higher signal than the free proline rich peptide; point mutations predicted to disrupt the design completely eliminated the binding signal.”
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“ProteinMPNN designs also have a much higher propensity to crystallize, greatly facilitating structure determination of designed proteins.”
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“For the Rosetta designed set, 40% were soluble and none had the correct oligomeric state confirmed by SEC-MALS. For the ProteinMPNN designed set, 88% were soluble and 27.7% had the correct oligomeric state.”
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“they are trained directly to find the most probable amino acid for a protein backbone given all the examples in the PDB, and hence such ambiguities do not arise, making sequence design more robust and less dependent on the judgement of a human expert.”
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“In traditional physically based approaches, sequence design maps to the problem of identifying an amino acid sequence whose lowest energy state is the desired structure.”
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“However, the methods described thus far are limited in their applicability to the wide range of current protein design challenges, and have not been extensively validated experimentally.”
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“Recently deep learning approaches have shown considerable promise in rapidly generating plausible amino acid sequences given monomeric protein backbones without need for compute intensive explicit consideration of sidechain rotameric states (1–6, 6a).”
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“AlphaFold (9) and RoseTTAfold (13) produce remarkably good structure predictions for native proteins given multiple sequence alignments which can contain substantial co-evolutionary and other information reflecting aspects of the 3D structure, but generally produce much poorer structures when provided only with a single sequence.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [9] Uria B, Murray I, & Larochelle H (2014, January). A deep and tractable density estimator. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 467– 475). PMLR. source
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“locally connected graph neural networks can be used to model the structure to sequence mapping problem because protein backbones provide a notion of local neighborhoods which primarily determine sequence identities.”
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“This is, however, computationally intractable as it requires computing energies over all possible structures, including unwanted oligomeric and aggregated states”
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“ProteinMPNN requires no expert customization for specific design challenges, and it should thus make protein design more broadly accessible.”
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“In silico metrics such as native sequence recovery are very sensitive to crystallographic resolution (Figure S3 B, C) and may not correlate with proper folding”
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“instead Rosetta and other approaches as a proxy carry out a search for the lowest energy sequence for a given backbone structure, and structure prediction calculations are required in a second step to confirm that there are no other structures in which the sequence has still lower energy.”
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“Second, protein design models have shown that new folds can be successfully predicted beyond the structural landscape explored by nature.249”
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§ Robust deep learning based protein sequence design using ProteinMPNN > Abstract
“the PDB split based on the CATH (7) protein classification”
§ Robust deep learning based protein sequence design using ProteinMPNN > References
“8. Orengo CA, Michie AD, Jones S, Jones DT, Swindells MB, & Thornton JM (1997). CATH–a hierarchic classification of protein domain structures.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dauparas, J., Anishchenko, I., Bennett, N., Bai, H., Ragotte, R. J., Milles, L. F., Wicky, B. I. M., Courbet, A., de Haas, R. J., Bethel, N., Leung, P. J. Y., Huddy, T. F., Pellock, S., Tischer, D., Chan, F., Koepnick, B., Nguyen, H., Kang, A., Sankaran, B., Bera, A. K., King, N. P., & Baker, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Baker, D.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2022-10-07
- Volume
- 378
- Issue
- 6615
- Pages
- 49-56
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC9997061
- OpenAlex
- W4296032638
- Semantic Scholar
- 98926d43356e87c22c82efc132dcaaac1ff40ebe
- Cited by
- 2,210
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 927 · 2025: 660 · 2024: 391 · 2023: 201 · 2022: 29
- FWCI
- 94.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (DEAC02-05CH11231, DGE-214-0004, 1937533, P30 GM124169, 2140004)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (P30 GM124169-01, DE-AC02-05CH11231, GT11817)
- U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, 05CH11231, DE AC02 05CH11231, GM124169, DE-AC02-)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (g-2021-16899, DE-AC02-05CH11231)
- Washington Research Foundation
- Open Philanthropy Project
- National Institutes of Health (DE-AC02–05CH11231)
- Office of Science (DEAC02–05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (DE-AC02-05CH11231, GM124169-01, P30GM124169)
- Basic Energy Sciences (DE-AC02, DE-AC02-05CH11231., AC02–05CH11231)
- 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
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Drug Discovery › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Keywords
- protein sequence design, de novo protein design, ProteinMPNN, deep learning, sequence recovery, protein structure prediction
- MeSH terms
- Deep Learning, Amino Acid Sequence, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Protein Engineering, Crystallography, X-Ray, Cryoelectron Microscopy
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-10, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-10 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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