LMNglyPred: prediction of human N-linked glycosylation sites using embeddings from a pre-trained protein language model

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Article

Publication Date

4-17-2023

Department

Department of Computer Science; Department of Chemistry

Abstract

Protein N-linked glycosylation is an important post-translational mechanism in Homo sapiens, playing essential roles in many vital biological processes. It occurs at the N-X-[S/T] sequon in amino acid sequences, where X can be any amino acid except proline. However, not all N-X-[S/T] sequons are glycosylated, thus the N-X-[S/T] sequon is a necessary but not sufficient determinant for protein glycosylation. In that regard, computational prediction of N-linked glycosylation sites confined to N-X-[S/T] sequons is an important problem which has not been extensively addressed by the existing methods especially in regard to the creation of negative sets and leveraging the distilled information from protein language models. Here, we developed LMNglyPred, a deep learning-based approach to predict N-linked glycosylated sites in human proteins using embeddings from a pre-trained protein language model (pLM). LMNglyPred produces sensitivity, specificity, Matthews Correlation Coefficient, precision, and accuracy of 76.50 percent, 75.36 percent, 0.49, 60.99 percent, and 75.74 percent, respectively on a benchmark independent test set. These results demonstrate that LMNglyPred is a robust computational tool to predict N-linked glycosylation sites confined to the N-X-[S/T] sequon.

Publication Title

Glycobiology

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