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Publications | Digital Biology Lab - University of Missouri

1. Jingxuan Zhu, Juexin Wang, Weiwei Han, and Dong Xu Neural relational inference to learn long-range allosteric interactions in proteins from molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Communications, 13:, .

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  • Protein allostery is a biological process facilitated by spatially long-range intra-protein communication, whereby ligand binding or amino acid change at a distant site affects the active site remotely. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a powerful computational approach to probe the allosteric effect. However, current MD simulations cannot reach the time scales of whole allosteric processes. The advent of deep learning made it possible to evaluate both spatially short and long-range communications for understanding allostery. For this purpose, we applied a neural relational inference model based on a graph neural network, which adopts an encoder-decoder architecture to simultaneously infer latent interactions for probing protein allosteric processes as dynamic networks of interacting residues. From the MD trajectories, this model successfully learned the long-range interactions and pathways that can mediate the allosteric communications between distant sites in the Pin1, SOD1, and MEK1 systems. Furthermore, the model can discover allostery-related interactions earlier in the MD simulation trajectories and predict relative free energy changes upon mutations more accurately than other methods.

3. Shuai Zeng, Ziting Mao, Yijie Ren, Duolin Wang, Dong Xu, Trupti Joshi. G2PDeep: a web-based deep-learning framework for quantitative phenotype prediction and discovery of genomic markers. Nucleic Acids Research, 49:W228-W236, .

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  • G2PDeep is an open-access web server, which provides a deep-learning framework for quantitative phenotype prediction and discovery of genomics markers. It uses zygosity or single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) information from plants and animals as the input to predict quantitative phenotype of interest and genomic markers associated with phenotype. It provides a one-stop-shop platform for researchers to create deep-learning models through an interactive web interface and train these models with uploaded data, using high-performance computing resources plugged at the backend. G2PDeep also provides a series of informative interfaces to monitor the training process and compare the performance among the trained models. The trained models can then be deployed automatically. The quantitative phenotype and genomic markers are predicted using a user-selected trained model and the results are visualized. Our state-of-the-art model has been benchmarked and demonstrated competitive performance in quantitative phenotype predictions by other researchers. In addition, the server integrates the soybean nested association mapping (SoyNAM) dataset with five phenotypes, including grain yield, height, moisture, oil, and protein. A publicly available dataset for seed protein and oil content has also been integrated into the server. The G2PDeep server is publicly available at http://g2pdeep.org. The Python-based deep-learning model is available at https://github.com/shuaizengMU/G2PDeep_model.

4. Duolin Wang, Zhaoyue Zhang, Yuexu Jiang, Ziting Mao, Dong Wang, Hao Lin, Dong Xu. DM3Loc: Multi-label mRNA Subcellular Localization Prediction and Analysis Based on Multi-head Self-attention Mechanism. Nucleic Acids Research. 49: e46, https://doi.org/10./nar/gkab016, .

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  • Subcellular localization of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), as a prevalent mechanism, gives precise and efficient control for the translation process. There is mounting evidence for the important roles of this process in a variety of cellular events. Computational methods for mRNA subcellular localization prediction provide a useful approach for studying mRNA functions. However, few computational methods were designed for mRNA subcellular localization prediction and their performance have room for improvement. Especially, there is still no available tool to predict for mRNAs that have multiple localization annotations. In this paper, we propose a multi-head self-attention method, DM3Loc, for multi-label mRNA subcellular localization prediction. Evaluation results show that DM3Loc outperforms existing methods and tools in general. Furthermore, DM3Loc has the interpretation ability to analyze RNA-binding protein motifs and key signals on mRNAs for subcellular localization. Our analyses found hundreds of instances of mRNA isoform-specific subcellular localizations and many significantly enriched gene functions for mRNAs in different subcellular localizations.