融合序列、结构与动态信息,提升突变功能影响预测精度
TriFit: Trimodal Fusion with Protein Dynamics for Mutation Fitness Prediction

- 用多专家融合模块整合序列、结构与蛋白质动态特征
- 在217个DMS实验上达到0.897的AUROC,优于所有现有模型
- 动态信息贡献最大,且输出概率校准良好,适合临床应用
预测单氨基酸替换(SAVs)的功能影响是理解遗传病和设计治疗蛋白的核心。尽管语言模型和结构方法表现优异,但普遍忽略蛋白质动态特性——残基柔韧性、相关运动和别构耦合是结构生物学中公认的突变耐受决定因素,却未被纳入监督型变异效应预测器。我们提出TriFit,一种多模态框架,通过四专家混合专家(MoE)融合模块和三模态交叉对比学习,整合序列、结构与动态信息。序列嵌入由掩码边缘评分(ESM-2, 650M)提取;结构嵌入来自AlphaFold2预测的Cα几何;动态嵌入则基于高斯网络模型(GNM)的B因子、模态形状及残基-残基交叉相关性。MoE路由机制根据输入自适应加权模态组合,实现无需固定假设的蛋白特异性融合。在包含217个DMS检测、696,000个SAVs的ProteinGym基准上,TriFit达到0.897 ± 0.0002的AUROC,超越所有监督基线(如Kermut: 0.864,ProteinNPT: 0.844),以及最佳零样本模型ESM3(0.769)。消融实验证明,动态信息对性能提升贡献最大;且模型输出概率校准良好(ECE = 0.044),无需后处理校正。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Predicting the functional impact of single amino acid substitutions (SAVs) is central to understanding genetic disease and engineering therapeutic proteins. While protein language models and structure-based methods have achieved strong performance on this task, they systematically neglect protein dynamics; residue flexibility, correlated motions, and allosteric coupling are well-established determinants of mutational tolerance in structural biology, yet have not been incorporated into supervised variant effect predictors. We present TriFit, a multimodal framework that integrates sequence, structure, and protein dynamics through a four-expert Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) fusion module with trimodal cross-modal contrastive learning. Sequence embeddings are extracted via masked marginal scoring with ESM-2 (650M); structural embeddings from AlphaFold2-predicted C-alpha geometries; and dynamics embeddings from Gaussian Network Model (GNM) B-factors, mode shapes, and residue-residue cross-correlations. The MoE router adaptively weights modality combinations conditioned on the input, enabling protein-specific fusion without fixed modality assumptions. On the ProteinGym substitution benchmark (217 DMS assays, 696k SAVs), TriFit achieves AUROC 0.897 +/- 0.0002, outperforming all supervised baselines including Kermut (0.864) and ProteinNPT (0.844), and the best zero-shot model ESM3 (0.769). Ablation studies confirm that dynamics provides the largest marginal contribution over pairwise modality combinations, and TriFit achieves well-calibrated probabilistic outputs (ECE = 0.044) without post-hoc correction.
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