Metal3D: a general deep learning framework for accurate metal ion location prediction in proteins

Simon L. Dürr, Andrea Levy and Ursula Rothlisberger ()
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Simon L. Dürr: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Andrea Levy: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Ursula Rothlisberger: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Abstract Metal ions are essential cofactors for many proteins and play a crucial role in many applications such as enzyme design or design of protein-protein interactions because they are biologically abundant, tether to the protein using strong interactions, and have favorable catalytic properties. Computational design of metalloproteins is however hampered by the complex electronic structure of many biologically relevant metals such as zinc . In this work, we develop two tools - Metal3D (based on 3D convolutional neural networks) and Metal1D (solely based on geometric criteria) to improve the location prediction of zinc ions in protein structures. Comparison with other currently available tools shows that Metal3D is the most accurate zinc ion location predictor to date with predictions within 0.70 ± 0.64 Å of experimental locations. Metal3D outputs a confidence metric for each predicted site and works on proteins with few homologes in the protein data bank. Metal3D predicts a global zinc density that can be used for annotation of computationally predicted structures and a per residue zinc density that can be used in protein design workflows. Currently trained on zinc, the framework of Metal3D is readily extensible to other metals by modifying the training data.

Date: 2023
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