用AI生成定制机械性能的蛛丝蛋白序列,实现精准设计。
Customizing Spider Silk: Generative Models with Mechanical Property Conditioning for Protein Engineering
- 基于GPT的轻量模型,通过分层微调学习蛛丝蛋白序列规律。
- 能生成符合特定强度与延展性要求的蛋白重复区序列。
- 适合生物材料、蛋白质工程领域研究者使用。
蛛丝优异的机械性能主要由其蛋白中的重复区域决定,即主要纺丝蛋白(MaSps)。但由于MaSps序列-结构-功能关系复杂且标注数据稀缺,建立机械性能与序列间的关联极具挑战。本文提出一种新型计算框架,用于设计具备可定制机械性能的MaSp重复序列。我们通过蒸馏预训练的ProtGPT2蛋白语言模型,构建了一个轻量级GPT模型,并利用蜘蛛丝组(Spider Silkome)数据集中精选的6,000条MaSp重复序列进行初步微调,再以572条具有实验测定纤维级机械性能的序列进一步优化。该模型不仅能生成生物学上合理的重复序列,还可预测给定序列的机械性能。验证包括序列层面的理化属性分析、关键基序分布与二级结构组成评估;并通过在Spider Silkome数据集和已知机械性能测试集上进行BLAST相关性分析,确认了模型预测准确性。该框架推动了仿蛛丝生物材料的理性设计,为工程化定制蛋白机械特性提供了通用工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The remarkable mechanical properties of spider silk, including its tensile strength and extensibility, are primarily governed by the repetitive regions of the proteins that constitute the fiber, the major ampullate spidroins (MaSps). However, establishing correlations between mechanical characteristics and repeat sequences is challenging due to the intricate sequence-structure-function relationships of MaSps and the limited availability of annotated datasets. In this study, we present a novel computational framework for designing MaSp repeat sequences with customizable mechanical properties. To achieve this, we developed a lightweight GPT-based generative model by distilling the pre-trained ProtGPT2 protein language model. The distilled model was subjected to multilevel fine-tuning using curated subsets of the Spider Silkome dataset. Specifically, we adapt the model for MaSp repeat generation using 6,000 MaSp repeat sequences and further refine it with 572 repeats associated with experimentally determined fiber-level mechanical properties. Our model generates biologically plausible MaSp repeat regions tailored to specific mechanical properties while also predicting those properties for given sequences. Validation includes sequence-level analysis, assessing physicochemical attributes and expected distribution of key motifs as well as secondary structure compositions. A correlation study using BLAST on the Spider Silkome dataset and a test set of MaSp repeats with known mechanical properties further confirmed the predictive accuracy of the model. This framework advances the rational design of spider silk-inspired biomaterials, offering a versatile tool for engineering protein sequences with tailored mechanical attributes.
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