Abstract

Predicting the thermodynamic stability of proteins is a common and widely used step in protein engineering, and when elucidating the molecular mechanisms behind evolution and disease. Here, we present RaSP, a method for making rapid and accurate predictions of changes in protein stability by leveraging deep learning representations. RaSP performs on-par with biophysics-based methods and enables saturation mutagenesis stability predictions in less than a second per residue. We use RaSP to calculate ∼ 300 million stability changes for nearly all single amino acid changes in the human proteome, and examine variants observed in the human population. We find that variants that are common in the population are substantially depleted for severe destabilization, and that there are substantial differences between benign and pathogenic variants, highlighting the role of protein stability in genetic diseases. RaSP is freely available-including via a Web interface-and enables large-scale analyses of stability in experimental and predicted protein structures.

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Scripts and data to repeat our analyses are available via: https://github.com/KULL-Centre/_2022_ML-ddG-Blaabjerg/

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  1. Lasse M Blaabjerg

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  2. Maher M Kassem

    Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  3. Lydia L Good

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  4. Nicolas Jonsson

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  5. Matteo Cagiada

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  6. Kristoffer E Johansson

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  7. Wouter Boomsma

    Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  8. Amelie Stein

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  9. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Funding

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF18OC0033950)

  • Amelie Stein
  • Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF20OC0062606)

  • Wouter Boomsma

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF18OC0052719)

  • Wouter Boomsma

Lundbeckfonden (R272-2017-4528)

  • Amelie Stein

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2023, Blaabjerg et al.

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  1. Lasse M Blaabjerg
  2. Maher M Kassem
  3. Lydia L Good
  4. Nicolas Jonsson
  5. Matteo Cagiada
  6. Kristoffer E Johansson
  7. Wouter Boomsma
  8. Amelie Stein
  9. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
(2023)
Rapid protein stability prediction using deep learning representations
eLife 12:e82593.
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