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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction

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ProCeSa: Contrast-Enhanced Structure-Aware Network for Thermostability Prediction with Protein Language Models.

Feixiang Zhou¹, Shuo Zhang², Huifeng Zhang¹

¹Readline Intelligence, Birmingham B29 6SQ, U.K.

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|February 24, 2025

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We developed ProCeSa, a novel deep learning model for predicting protein thermostability. It effectively integrates sequence and structural information from protein language models (PLMs) for accurate predictions without atomic structures.

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Area of Science:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences

Background:

Protein thermostability is critical for biological function and traditionally requires extensive experimental measurement.
Deep learning, especially protein language models (PLMs), has advanced protein thermostability prediction.
Integrating structural insights from PLM embeddings without atomic data remains a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel model, ProCeSa, for enhanced protein thermostability prediction.
To effectively combine sequence and structural information derived from PLMs.
To overcome the limitations of existing methods in leveraging structural context from embeddings.

Main Methods:

Developed the Protein Contrast-enhanced Structure-Aware (ProCeSa) model.
Utilized a contrastive learning scheme guided by amino acid residue categories.
Extracted integrated sequence and structural information from PLM embeddings.
Evaluated performance on publicly available datasets for classification and regression tasks.

Main Results:

ProCeSa demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The model achieved high accuracy in both protein thermostability classification and regression tasks.
The approach successfully integrated structural information from PLM embeddings without needing atomic structural data.

Conclusions:

ProCeSa offers a powerful new approach for predicting protein thermostability.
The model's ability to leverage PLM-derived structural context enhances prediction accuracy.
This method advances computational approaches in protein engineering and functional prediction.