Pre-Training Protein Bi-level Representation Through Span Mask Strategy On 3D Protein Chains

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Jiale, Zhuang, Wanru, Song, Jia, Li, Yaqi, Lu, Shuqi
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author Zhao, Jiale
Zhuang, Wanru
Song, Jia
Li, Yaqi
Lu, Shuqi
author_facet Zhao, Jiale
Zhuang, Wanru
Song, Jia
Li, Yaqi
Lu, Shuqi
contents In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing structure-based pre-trained models primarily focus on the residue level, i.e., alpha carbon atoms, while ignoring other atoms like side chain atoms. We argue that modeling proteins at both residue and atom levels is important since the side chain atoms can also be crucial for numerous downstream tasks, for example, molecular docking. Nevertheless, we find that naively combining residue and atom information during pre-training typically fails. We identify a key reason is the information leakage caused by the inclusion of atom structure in the input, which renders residue-level pre-training tasks trivial and results in insufficiently expressive residue representations. To address this issue, we introduce a span mask pre-training strategy on 3D protein chains to learn meaningful representations of both residues and atoms. This leads to a simple yet effective approach to learning protein representation suitable for diverse downstream tasks. Extensive experimental results on binding site prediction and function prediction tasks demonstrate our proposed pre-training approach significantly outperforms other methods. Our code will be made public.
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spellingShingle Pre-Training Protein Bi-level Representation Through Span Mask Strategy On 3D Protein Chains
Zhao, Jiale
Zhuang, Wanru
Song, Jia
Li, Yaqi
Lu, Shuqi
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing structure-based pre-trained models primarily focus on the residue level, i.e., alpha carbon atoms, while ignoring other atoms like side chain atoms. We argue that modeling proteins at both residue and atom levels is important since the side chain atoms can also be crucial for numerous downstream tasks, for example, molecular docking. Nevertheless, we find that naively combining residue and atom information during pre-training typically fails. We identify a key reason is the information leakage caused by the inclusion of atom structure in the input, which renders residue-level pre-training tasks trivial and results in insufficiently expressive residue representations. To address this issue, we introduce a span mask pre-training strategy on 3D protein chains to learn meaningful representations of both residues and atoms. This leads to a simple yet effective approach to learning protein representation suitable for diverse downstream tasks. Extensive experimental results on binding site prediction and function prediction tasks demonstrate our proposed pre-training approach significantly outperforms other methods. Our code will be made public.
title Pre-Training Protein Bi-level Representation Through Span Mask Strategy On 3D Protein Chains
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01481