Summary of Multi-level Interaction Modeling For Protein Mutational Effect Prediction, by Yuanle Mo et al.
Multi-level Interaction Modeling for Protein Mutational Effect Prediction
by Yuanle Mo, Xin Hong, Bowen Gao, Yinjun Jia, Yanyan Lan
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Protein-protein interactions are crucial in biological processes, requiring accurate predictions of mutation effects to guide modulation and therapeutic development. Existing methods focus on sidechain-level modeling, leading to suboptimal results. This work proposes ProMIM, a self-supervised multi-level pre-training framework that captures all three levels of interaction (sidechain, backbone conformation, binding affinity) with well-designed objectives. Experiments show ProMIM outperforms baselines on standard benchmarks and produces leading results in zero-shot evaluations for SARS-CoV-2 mutational effect prediction and antibody optimization, highlighting its potential as a powerful tool for developing novel therapeutic approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Scientists are trying to understand how changes to proteins affect their interactions. This is important because it can help us develop new treatments for diseases. Right now, computers aren’t very good at predicting these effects. The authors of this paper developed a new way to train computers to do this job better. They called it ProMIM. It works by looking at different levels of interaction between proteins, including the shape and structure of the proteins themselves. This approach was successful in predicting how mutations affect protein interactions, which could lead to breakthroughs in medicine. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Self supervised » Zero shot
