Boltzmann-Aligned Inverse Folding Model as a Predictor of Mutational Effects on Protein-Protein Interactions

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Main Authors: Jiao, Xiaoran, Mao, Weian, Jin, Wengong, Yang, Peiyuan, Chen, Hao, Shen, Chunhua
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author Jiao, Xiaoran
Mao, Weian
Jin, Wengong
Yang, Peiyuan
Chen, Hao
Shen, Chunhua
author_facet Jiao, Xiaoran
Mao, Weian
Jin, Wengong
Yang, Peiyuan
Chen, Hao
Shen, Chunhua
contents Predicting the change in binding free energy ($ΔΔG$) is crucial for understanding and modulating protein-protein interactions, which are critical in drug design. Due to the scarcity of experimental $ΔΔG$ data, existing methods focus on pre-training, while neglecting the importance of alignment. In this work, we propose the Boltzmann Alignment technique to transfer knowledge from pre-trained inverse folding models to $ΔΔG$ prediction. We begin by analyzing the thermodynamic definition of $ΔΔG$ and introducing the Boltzmann distribution to connect energy with protein conformational distribution. However, the protein conformational distribution is intractable; therefore, we employ Bayes' theorem to circumvent direct estimation and instead utilize the log-likelihood provided by protein inverse folding models for $ΔΔG$ estimation. Compared to previous inverse folding-based methods, our method explicitly accounts for the unbound state of protein complex in the $ΔΔG$ thermodynamic cycle, introducing a physical inductive bias and achieving both supervised and unsupervised state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance. Experimental results on SKEMPI v2 indicate that our method achieves Spearman coefficients of 0.3201 (unsupervised) and 0.5134 (supervised), significantly surpassing the previously reported SoTA values of 0.2632 and 0.4324, respectively. Futhermore, we demonstrate the capability of our method on binding energy prediction, protein-protein docking and antibody optimization tasks.
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spellingShingle Boltzmann-Aligned Inverse Folding Model as a Predictor of Mutational Effects on Protein-Protein Interactions
Jiao, Xiaoran
Mao, Weian
Jin, Wengong
Yang, Peiyuan
Chen, Hao
Shen, Chunhua
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
Predicting the change in binding free energy ($ΔΔG$) is crucial for understanding and modulating protein-protein interactions, which are critical in drug design. Due to the scarcity of experimental $ΔΔG$ data, existing methods focus on pre-training, while neglecting the importance of alignment. In this work, we propose the Boltzmann Alignment technique to transfer knowledge from pre-trained inverse folding models to $ΔΔG$ prediction. We begin by analyzing the thermodynamic definition of $ΔΔG$ and introducing the Boltzmann distribution to connect energy with protein conformational distribution. However, the protein conformational distribution is intractable; therefore, we employ Bayes' theorem to circumvent direct estimation and instead utilize the log-likelihood provided by protein inverse folding models for $ΔΔG$ estimation. Compared to previous inverse folding-based methods, our method explicitly accounts for the unbound state of protein complex in the $ΔΔG$ thermodynamic cycle, introducing a physical inductive bias and achieving both supervised and unsupervised state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance. Experimental results on SKEMPI v2 indicate that our method achieves Spearman coefficients of 0.3201 (unsupervised) and 0.5134 (supervised), significantly surpassing the previously reported SoTA values of 0.2632 and 0.4324, respectively. Futhermore, we demonstrate the capability of our method on binding energy prediction, protein-protein docking and antibody optimization tasks.
title Boltzmann-Aligned Inverse Folding Model as a Predictor of Mutational Effects on Protein-Protein Interactions
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09543