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Record W4412423989 · doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08452-7

Prediction of pathogenic mutations in human transmembrane proteins and their associated diseases via utilizing pre-trained Bio-LLMs

2025· article· en· W4412423989 on OpenAlexaff
Lexin Cao, Lijun Quan, Qiufeng Chen, B. X. Zhang, Zhijun Zhang, Junkai Wang, Yelu Jiang, Liangpeng Nie, Geng Li, Tingfang Wu, Qiang Lyu

Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Canadian institutionsNovelis (Canada)
FundersPriority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education InstitutionsGovernment of Jiangsu ProvinceNatural Science Foundation of Jiangsu ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsMissense mutationTransmembrane proteinComputational biologyMembrane proteinMutationContext (archaeology)DiseaseBiologyTransmembrane domainPathogenicityMachine learningArtificial intelligenceBioinformaticsGeneticsComputer scienceGeneMedicineMembrane

Abstract

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Missense mutations can disrupt the structure and function of membrane proteins, potentially impairing key biological processes and leading to various human diseases. However, existing computational methods primarily focus on binary pathogenicity classification for general proteins, with limited approaches specifically designed for membrane proteins, and even fewer methods capable of fine-grained, multi-label classification for specific disease categories. To address this gap, we proposed MutDPAL, a deep learning method specifically designed to identify pathogenic mutations in membrane proteins and further classify such pathogenic mutations into potential diseases categories. MutDPAL utilizes two pre-trained biological large language models (Bio-LLMs), one for raw sequence features and the other for encoding transmembrane environment features. By employing a cross-attention-based disease-protein association learning approach in the context of membrane proteins, MutDPAL captures the intricate relationships between mutations and diseases, enabling accurate pathogenicity prediction and classification into 15 distinct disease categories. Experimental results demonstrate that MutDPAL outperforms existing methods in predicting membrane protein mutation pathogenicity and excels in multi-label disease classification tasks, achieving high predictive accuracy across all 15 disease categories. MutDPAL is the first to combine transmembrane environment with disease encoding features for fine-grained disease classification, offering valuable insights into the pathogenicity of missense mutations in membrane protein.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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