Prediction of human O-linked glycosylation sites using stacked generalization and embeddings from pre-trained protein language model

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Pakhrin, Subash C.
Chauhan, Neha
Khan, Salman
Upadhyaya, Jamie
Beck, Moriah R.
Blanco, Eduardo
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2024-10-24
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Subash Chandra Pakhrin, Neha Chauhan, Salman Khan, Jamie Upadhyaya, Moriah Rene Beck, Eduardo Blanco, Prediction of human O-linked glycosylation sites using stacked generalization and embeddings from pre-trained protein language model, Bioinformatics, Volume 40, Issue 11, November 2024, btae643, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae643
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Motivation: O-linked glycosylation, an essential post-translational modification process in Homo sapiens, involves attaching sugar moieties to the oxygen atoms of serine and/or threonine residues. It influences various biological and cellular functions. While threonine or serine residues within protein sequences are potential sites for O-linked glycosylation, not all serine and/or threonine residues undergo this modification, underscoring the importance of characterizing its occurrence. This study presents a novel approach for predicting intracellular and extracellular O-linked glycosylation events on proteins, which are crucial for comprehending cellular processes. Two base multi-layer perceptron models were trained by leveraging a stacked generalization framework. These base models respectively use ProtT5 and Ankh O-linked glycosylation site-specific embeddings whose combined predictions are used to train the meta-multi-layer perceptron model. Trained on extensive O-linked glycosylation datasets, the stacked-generalization model demonstrated high predictive performance on independent test datasets. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the distinction between nucleocytoplasmic and extracellular O-linked glycosylation, offering insights into their functional implications that were overlooked in previous studies. By integrating the protein language model’s embedding with stacked generalization techniques, this approach enhances predictive accuracy of O-linked glycosylation events and illuminates the intricate roles of O-linked glycosylation in proteomics, potentially accelerating the discovery of novel glycosylation sites. Results: Stack-OglyPred-PLM produces Sensitivity, Specificity, Matthews Correlation Coefficient, and Accuracy of 90.50%, 89.60%, 0.464, and 89.70%, respectively on a benchmark NetOGlyc-4.0 independent test dataset. These results demonstrate that Stack-OglyPred-PLM is a robust computational tool to predict O-linked glycosylation sites in proteins. Availability and implementation: The developed tool, programs, training, and test dataset are available at https://github.com/PakhrinLab/ Stack-OglyPred-PLM. © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Oxford University Press
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Bioinformatics
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13674803
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