pLDDT-Predictor: High-speed Protein Screening Using Transformer and ESM2

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21283v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:19:44 GMT
• Title: pLDDT-Predictor: High-speed Protein Screening Using Transformer and ESM2
• Authors: Joongwon Chae, Zhenyu Wang, Peiwu Qin,
• Abstract summary: We introduce pLDDT-Predictor, a high-speed protein screening tool that bridges the gap by leveraging pre-trained ESM2 protein embeddings and a Transformer architecture. Our experimental results, conducted on a diverse dataset of 1.5 million protein sequences, demonstrate that pLDDT-Predictor can classify more than 90 percent of proteins with a pLDDT score above 70.
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• Abstract: Recent advancements in protein structure prediction, particularly AlphaFold2, have revolutionized structural biology by achieving near-experimental accuracy. However, the computational intensity of these models limits their application in high-throughput protein screening. Concurrently, large language models like ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modeling) have demonstrated the potential to extract rich structural information directly from protein sequences. Despite these advances, a significant gap remains in rapidly assessing protein structure quality for large-scale analyses. We introduce pLDDT-Predictor, a high-speed protein screening tool that bridges this gap by leveraging pre-trained ESM2 protein embeddings and a Transformer architecture to accurately predict AlphaFold2`s pLDDT (predicted Local Distance Difference Test) scores. Our model addresses the critical need for fast, accurate protein structure quality assessment without the computational burden of full structure prediction. By combining the evolutionary information captured in ESM2 embeddings with the sequence-wide context modeling of Transformers, pLDDT-Predictor achieves a balance between structural insight and computational efficiency. Our experimental results, conducted on a diverse dataset of 1.5 million protein sequences, demonstrate that pLDDT-Predictor can classify more than 90 percent of proteins with a pLDDT score above 70, closely matching AlphaFold2`s confidence level.

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