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MuFGPS: enhancing liquid-liquid phase separation protein prediction through multi-level features and ensemble

Lei Xian1, Quan Zou1,2, Ren Qi3

  • 1Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Avenue, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, Sichuan, China.

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MuFGPS accurately predicts proteins capable of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) by integrating sequence and structural data. This computational framework improves identification of LLPS proteins, crucial for understanding cellular functions and diseases.

Keywords:
AlphaFoldensemble learninggraph attention networkliquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS)multi-level feature integration

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Area of Science:

  • Biochemistry
  • Structural Biology
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) drives the formation of membrane-less organelles and is implicated in cellular functions and diseases.
  • Current computational methods for predicting LLPS proteins often lack explicit structural topology information, limiting accuracy due to sequence diversity and complex determinants.
  • Accurate identification of LLPS-capable proteins is essential for biological and medical research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel computational framework, MuFGPS (Multi-level Feature Graph-based Predictor for Phase-Separating proteins), for accurate prediction of LLPS-capable proteins.
  • To integrate diverse biological data, including sequence features, secondary structures, and structural embeddings, for enhanced predictive power.
  • To benchmark MuFGPS against existing methods and validate the contribution of its integrated features.

Main Methods:

  • MuFGPS integrates sequence-derived physicochemical features, secondary structure information (from Define Secondary Structure of Proteins), and graph-based structural embeddings derived from AlphaFold residue contact maps.
  • A multi-head Graph Attention Network is employed for processing structural information.
  • Class imbalance is managed using Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE), and classification is achieved via a stacking ensemble of Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM.

Main Results:

  • MuFGPS demonstrates superior performance compared to six representative methods across all evaluated metrics.
  • Significant improvements were observed in F1-score and Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC).
  • Ablation studies confirmed that both structural features and ensemble learning synergistically enhance prediction accuracy and robustness.

Conclusions:

  • MuFGPS provides a scalable and highly accurate framework for predicting proteins involved in liquid-liquid phase separation.
  • The integration of multi-level features, particularly structural information, is critical for improving LLPS protein prediction.
  • This framework has the potential for broad application in proteome-wide LLPS protein identification and disease research.