Publications by authors named "Muhammad Shahid Malik"

Adenosine triphosphate plays a vital role in providing energy and enabling key cellular processes through interactions with binding proteins. The increasing amount of protein sequence data necessitates computational methods for identifying binding sites. However, experimental identification of adenosine triphosphate-binding residues remains challenging.

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Secondary active transporters play a crucial role in cellular physiology by facilitating the movement of molecules across cell membranes. Identifying the functional classes of these transporters, particularly amino acid and peptide transporters, is essential for understanding their involvement in various physiological processes and disease pathways, including cancer. This study aims to develop a robust computational framework that integrates pre-trained protein language models and deep learning techniques to classify amino acid and peptide transporters within the secondary active transporter (SAT) family and predict their functional association with solute carrier (SLC) proteins.

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  • * The study introduces vesiMCNN, a new computational approach that combines pre-trained protein language models with a multi-window scanning CNN to identify vesicular transport proteins accurately.
  • * The model shows impressive results with an MCC of 0.558 and an AUC-ROC of 0.933, surpassing previous methods, and a new benchmark dataset has been created to support future research in this area.
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Mitochondrial carriers (MCs) are essential proteins that transport metabolites across mitochondrial membranes and play a critical role in cellular metabolism. ADP/ATP (adenosine diphosphate/adenosine triphosphate) is one of the most important carriers as it contributes to cellular energy production and is susceptible to the powerful toxin bongkrekic acid. This toxin has claimed several lives; for example, a recent foodborne outbreak in Taipei, Taiwan, has caused four deaths and sickened 30 people.

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This study delves into the prediction of protein-peptide interactions using advanced machine learning techniques, comparing models such as sequence-based, standard CNNs, and traditional classifiers. Leveraging pre-trained language models and multi-view window scanning CNNs, our approach yields significant improvements, with ProtTrans standing out based on 2.1 billion protein sequences and 393 billion amino acids.

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Accurate classification of membrane proteins like ion channels and transporters is critical for elucidating cellular processes and drug development. We present DeepPLM_mCNN, a novel framework combining Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and multi-window convolutional neural networks (mCNNs) for effective classification of membrane proteins into ion channels and ion transporters. Our approach extracts informative features from protein sequences by utilizing various PLMs, including TAPE, ProtT5_XL_U50, ESM-1b, ESM-2_480, and ESM-2_1280.

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  • Secondary active transporters are crucial for ion and molecule transport in cells and are linked to diseases like cancer, but studying them through traditional biochemical methods is difficult.
  • We developed a computational method using pre-trained language models and deep learning to identify these transporters from membrane protein sequences, leveraging a dataset of 290 secondary active transporters and over 5,000 other proteins.
  • Our model, which combines ProtTrans language embeddings with a multi-window convolutional neural network, achieved high accuracy metrics (86% sensitivity, 99% specificity, 98% overall accuracy), showing that this approach surpasses traditional machine learning techniques and enhances membrane protein research.
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