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Sun, J., Qu, J., Zhao, C. et al. Precise prediction of phase-separation key residues by machine learning. Nature Communications 15, 2662 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46901-9 (IF: 16.6)
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PSPHunter, a machine learning method designed to predict phase-separating proteins and their corresponding driving residues. Using only the amino acid sequence information of a protein, we can determine its probability of phase separation, identify the driving residues, and assess the impact of various mutations on phase separation. With the application of PSPHunter, we have demonstrated that truncating just 6 driving residues in SOX2 and GATA3 significantly disrupts their phase separation properties.
Furthermore, we successfully predicted the driving residues of the core pluripotency factor OCT4 (truncated 3 residues, Cell Stem Cell, 2021) and the PcG family protein RYBP (truncated 21 residues, Cell Research, 2022).