Alignment-free metal ion-binding site prediction from protein sequence through pretrained language model and multi-task learning

Q Yuan, S Chen, Y Wang, H Zhao… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
More than one-third of the proteins contain metal ions in the Protein Data Bank. Correct
identification of metal ion-binding residues is important for understanding protein functions …

A comprehensive review of protein-centric predictors for biomolecular interactions: from proteins to nucleic acids and beyond

P Jia, F Zhang, C Wu, M Li - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Proteins interact with diverse ligands to perform a large number of biological functions, such
as gene expression and signal transduction. Accurate identification of these protein–ligand …

An ensemble 3D deep-learning model to predict protein metal-binding site

A Mohamadi, T Cheng, L **, J Wang, H Sun… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Predicting metal-binding sites in proteins is critical for understanding the protein's biological
function. Here, we develop an ensemble deep convolutional neural network (CNN) method …

M-Ionic: prediction of metal-ion-binding sites from sequence using residue embeddings

A Shenoy, Y Kalakoti, D Sundar, A Elofsson - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Understanding metal–protein interaction can provide structural and functional
insights into cellular processes. As the number of protein sequences increases, develo** …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the location of coordinated metal ion-ligand binding sites using geometry-aware graph neural networks

C Essien, N Wang, Y Yu, S Alqarghuli, Y Qin… - Computational and …, 2025 - Elsevier
More than 50% of proteins bind to metal ions. Interactions between metal ions and proteins,
especially coordinated interactions, are essential for biological functions, such as …

BioBrigit, A Hybrid Deep Learning and Knowledge-based Approach to Model Metal Pathways in Proteins: Application to a Di-Copper Tyrosinase

JD Marechal, M Sodupe, JE Sanchez… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The interaction of metallic species with proteins has been fundamental in evolution and key
in many physiological processes. How metals bind to proteins also holds promise in many …