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Jiaqi Wang^1,2,3,4, Zihan Liu^2,5, Shuang Zhao^2,6

¹Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310030, China.

|September 27, 2024

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This study establishes comprehensive aggregation rules for tetrapeptides and pentapeptides using deep learning. These findings provide a roadmap for controlling peptide aggregation in applications like hydrogels and pharmaceuticals.

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Area of Science:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Computational Chemistry
Materials Science

Background:

Understanding peptide aggregation is key for designing functional materials.
Existing aggregation rules are limited, especially for short peptides like tetrapeptides and pentapeptides.
Precise control over peptide self-assembly is needed for applications in drug delivery and biomaterials.

Purpose of the Study:

To derive comprehensive aggregation rules for tetrapeptides and pentapeptides across their entire sequence space.
To investigate the influence of amino acid type and position on peptide aggregation.
To explore the transferability of aggregation propensities and evaluate aggregation morphologies.

Main Methods:

Utilized a transformer-based deep learning model to predict aggregation propensity values for millions of peptide sequences.
Analyzed first- and second-order contributions of amino acids and amino acid pairs to aggregation.
Evaluated aggregation morphologies for over 20,000 tetrapeptides.

Main Results:

Identified specific amino acids and their positions that significantly promote or inhibit peptide aggregation.
Demonstrated the transferability of aggregation propensities between tetrapeptide and pentapeptide sequences.
Characterized the distribution and sequence-dependent contributions to aggregation morphologies.

Conclusions:

Developed extensive, sequence-space-wide aggregation rules for tetrapeptides and pentapeptides.
Provided experimentalists with a predictive framework for fine-tuning peptide aggregation.
Enabled the rational design of short peptides for applications in hydrogels, emulsions, and pharmaceuticals.