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Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Protein-metal ion interactions are critical in disease pathogenesis.
Missense mutations in metalloproteins can lead to severe human diseases.
Accurate prediction of mutation pathogenicity is vital for diagnostics and drug development.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a deep learning framework, MetalDiagnosis, for predicting disease-associated mutation sites in metal-binding proteins.
To integrate sequence and structural information for enhanced prediction accuracy.

Main Methods:

Utilized an improved equivariant graph neural network combined with a pre-trained protein language model (ESM Cambrian).
Employed a sliding-window strategy for extracting deep contextual semantic information from protein sequences.
Integrated 3D geometric features using the equivariant graph neural network with positional encoding and virtual nodes.

Main Results:

MetalDiagnosis demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on an independent test set.
Successfully reclassified variants of uncertain significance (VUS) with higher confidence, reducing ambiguous predictions.
Case studies confirmed accurate identification of pathogenic mutations in functionally critical regions.

Conclusions:

MetalDiagnosis provides an effective computational framework for identifying disease-associated mutations in metalloproteins.
The integration of sequence and structural data enhances the prediction of mutation pathogenicity.
This tool can aid in early disease diagnosis and accelerate the development of targeted therapies.