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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

PON-Sol2: Prediction of Effects of Variants on Protein Solubility.

Yang Yang, Lianjie Zeng, Mauno Vihinen

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Insight into Protein Engineering: FromCurrent pharmaceutical design · 2025
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  6. A review on computational models for predicting protein solubility.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2025
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  10. PON-Fold: Prediction of Substitutions Affecting Protein Folding Rate.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  15. SoluProtMutComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022
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3 authors.

Yang YangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
Lianjie ZengSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
Mauno VihinenDepartment of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, BMC B13, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9614-7976

Funding

Cancerfonden CAN 2017/699 and CAN 20 1350Key project of the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China 20KJA520010Vetenskapsrådet 2019-01403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic variations have a multitude of effects on proteins. A substantial number of variations affect protein-solvent interactions, either aggregation or solubility. Aggregation is often related to structural alterations, whereas solubilizable proteins in the solid phase can be made again soluble by dilution. Solubility is a central protein property and when reduced can lead to diseases. We developed a prediction method, PON-Sol2, to identify amino acid substitutions that increase, decrease, or have no effect on the protein solubility. The method is a machine learning tool utilizing gradient boosting algorithm and was trained on a large dataset of variants with different outcomes after the selection of features among a large number of tested properties. The method is fast and has high performance. The normalized correct prediction rate for three states is 0.656, and the normalized GC2 score is 0.312 in 10-fold cross-validation. The corresponding numbers in the blind test were 0.545 and 0.157. The performance was superior in comparison to previous methods. The PON-Sol2 predictor is freely available. It can be used to predict the solubility effects of variants for any organism, even in large-scale projects.

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Amino Acid SubstitutionSequence Analysis, ProteinSoftwarePredictive Value of TestsRecombinant ProteinsSolubilityRecombinant Proteinsartificial intelligencemachine learningmutationPON-Sol2predictionprotein solubility predictionvariationvariation interpretation

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PMID34360790
PMCPMC8348231

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