基于序列预测蛋白质突变稳定性,兼顾热力学一致性。
JanusDDG: A Thermodynamics-Compliant Model for Sequence-Based Protein Stability via Two-Fronts Multi-Head Attention
- 用双侧交叉注意力捕捉突变引起的结构扰动。
- 在单/多氨基酸突变上达到当前最佳预测精度。
- 符合热力学反称性和传递性,适合生物功能设计。
解析残基变异对蛋白质稳定性的影响,对设计功能性蛋白和理解疾病相关突变的分子机制至关重要。近年来,蛋白质语言模型(PLMs)推动了计算蛋白质分析的革新,使突变效应预测更准确。本文提出JanusDDG,一种深度学习框架,利用PLM嵌入和双向交叉注意力变换器架构,仅基于序列预测单个及多个残基突变的ΔΔG,同时满足热力学基本性质(如反称性、传递性)。不同于传统自注意力,JanusDDG将查询(Q)和值(V)设为野生型与突变型嵌入之差,键(K)在两者间交替。这种交叉交错注意力机制可有效捕捉突变引发的扰动,同时保留关键上下文信息。实验表明,JanusDDG在仅使用序列的情况下,预测ΔΔG性能达到领先水平,对单/多突变的预测精度与或超过基于结构的方法。代码已开源:https://github.com/compbiomed-unito/JanusDDG
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding how residue variations affect protein stability is crucial for designing functional proteins and deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying disease-related mutations. Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) have revolutionized computational protein analysis, enabling, among other things, more accurate predictions of mutational effects. In this work, we introduce JanusDDG, a deep learning framework that leverages PLM-derived embeddings and a bidirectional cross-attention transformer architecture to predict $ΔΔG$ of single and multiple-residue mutations while simultaneously being constrained to respect fundamental thermodynamic properties, such as antisymmetry and transitivity. Unlike conventional self-attention, JanusDDG computes queries (Q) and values (V) as the difference between wild-type and mutant embeddings, while keys (K) alternate between the two. This cross-interleaved attention mechanism enables the model to capture mutation-induced perturbations while preserving essential contextual information. Experimental results show that JanusDDG achieves state-of-the-art performance in predicting $ΔΔG$ from sequence alone, matching or exceeding the accuracy of structure-based methods for both single and multiple mutations. Code Availability:https://github.com/compbiomed-unito/JanusDDG
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