Unsupervisedly Prompting AlphaFold2 for Few-Shot Learning of Accurate Folding Landscape and Protein Structure Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09652v2
• Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 11:29:51 GMT
• Title: Unsupervisedly Prompting AlphaFold2 for Few-Shot Learning of Accurate Folding Landscape and Protein Structure Prediction
• Authors: Jun Zhang, Sirui Liu, Mengyun Chen, Haotian Chu, Min Wang, Zidong Wang, Jialiang Yu, Ningxi Ni, Fan Yu, Diqing Chen, Yi Isaac Yang, Boxin Xue, Lijiang Yang, Yuan Liu and Yi Qin Gao
• Abstract summary: We present EvoGen, a meta generative model, to remedy the underperformance of AlphaFold2 for poor MSA targets. By prompting the model with calibrated or virtually generated homologue sequences, EvoGen helps AlphaFold2 fold accurately in low-data regime.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Data-driven predictive methods which can efficiently and accurately transform protein sequences into biologically active structures are highly valuable for scientific research and medical development. Determining accurate folding landscape using co-evolutionary information is fundamental to the success of modern protein structure prediction methods. As the state of the art, AlphaFold2 has dramatically raised the accuracy without performing explicit co-evolutionary analysis. Nevertheless, its performance still shows strong dependence on available sequence homologs. Based on the interrogation on the cause of such dependence, we presented EvoGen, a meta generative model, to remedy the underperformance of AlphaFold2 for poor MSA targets. By prompting the model with calibrated or virtually generated homologue sequences, EvoGen helps AlphaFold2 fold accurately in low-data regime and even achieve encouraging performance with single-sequence predictions. Being able to make accurate predictions with few-shot MSA not only generalizes AlphaFold2 better for orphan sequences, but also democratizes its use for high-throughput applications. Besides, EvoGen combined with AlphaFold2 yields a probabilistic structure generation method which could explore alternative conformations of protein sequences, and the task-aware differentiable algorithm for sequence generation will benefit other related tasks including protein design.

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