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Identifying endogenous peptide receptors bycombining structure and transmembrane topologyprediction

Teufel, F.; Refsgaard, J. C.; Kasimova, M. A.; Madsen, C. T.; Stahlhut, C.; Gronborg, M.; Winther, O.; Madsen, D.

2022-10-31 bioinformatics
10.1101/2022.10.28.514036 bioRxiv
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Many secreted endogenous peptides rely on signalling pathways to exert their function in the body. While peptides can be discovered through high throughput technologies, their cognate receptors typically cannot, hindering the understanding of their mode of action. We investigate the use of AlphaFold-Multimer for identifying the cognate receptors of secreted endogenous peptides in human receptor libraries without any prior knowledge about likely candidates. We find that AlphaFolds predicted confidence metrics have strong performance for prioritizing true peptide-receptor interactions. By applying transmembrane topology prediction using DeepTMHMM, we further improve performance by detecting and filtering biologically implausible predicted interactions. In a library of 1112 human receptors, the method ranks true receptors in the top percentile on average for 11 benchmark peptide-receptor pairs.

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