Sequence analysis TransFactor-prediction of pro-viral SARS-CoV-2 host factors using a protein language model
Yang An, Valter Bergant, Samuele Firmani, Corinna Gr€ Unke, Batiste Bonnal, Alexander Henrici, Andreas Pichlmair, Benjamin Schubert, Annalisa Marsico, Jianlin Cheng
Motivation: Recent pandemics have revealed significant gaps in our understanding of viral pathogenesis, exposing an urgent need for methods to identify and prioritize key host proteins (host factors) as potential targets for antiviral treatments. De novo generation of experimental datasets is limited by their heterogeneity, and for looming future pandemics, may not be feasible due to limitations of experimental approaches. Results: Here, we present TransFactor, a computational framework for predicting and prioritizing candidate host factors using only protein sequence data. It leverages the pre-trained ESM-2 protein language model, fine-tuned on a limited set of experimentally determined host factors aggregated from 33 independent SARS-CoV-2 studies. TransFactor outperforms machine and deep learning baselines and its predictions align with Gene Ontology enrichments of known host factors, but also provide interpretability through a computational alanine scan, enabling the identification of pro-viral protein domains such as COMM, PX, and RRM, that may be used to direct experimental investigations of virus biology and guide rational design of antiviral therapies. Our findings demonstrate the potential of transformer-based models to advance host factor prediction, providing a framework extendable to orthogonal input modalities and other infectious diseases, enhancing our preparedness for current and future viral threats.
Author contributions Yang An (Conceptualization [equal]
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