{"id":{"repo_id":"uiuc","oai_identifier":"oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/115600"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/uiuc/oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/115600","repository":{"repo_id":"uiuc","name":"University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign","base_url":"https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh"},"display":{"title":"Inferring protein conformational ensemble using deep learning and evolutionary couplings","abstract":"Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01","abstract_html":"Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Xue, Zhengyuan"],"institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","degree_name":"M.S.","degree_level":"Thesis","degree_discipline":"Biophysics & Quant Biology","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Shukla, Diwakar"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2022,"date_issued":"2022-05","date_published":"2022-05","updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:54Z","subjects":["Protein Conformational Dynamics","Deep Learning"],"languages":["en","eng"],"rights":["Copyright 2022 Zhengyuan Xue"],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115600","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Shukla, Diwakar"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Xue, Zhengyuan"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2022-05","2022-05-02"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["text","Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Biophysics & Quant Biology"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["M.S."]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["Protein Conformational Dynamics","Deep Learning"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["en","eng"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["Copyright 2022 Zhengyuan Xue"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115600"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01","The student, Zhengyuan Xue, accepted the attached license on 2022-04-29 at 14:52.","The student, Zhengyuan Xue, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-04-29 at 16:41.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-05-02 at 11:05.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17906 on 2022-11-11 at 12:11:54","Protein conformational dynamics is crucial for understanding protein structure-function relationship, but hard to sample and analyze due to their high-dimensional nature. Evolutionary couplings (ECs) have been proven to contain information about the structure and function of proteins, thus can be used for predicting residue contact or functional effect of mutations. We here show that ECs can also be used to infer protein dynamics. We present dynamicEC, a deep learning model based on ResNet that takes multiple kinds of features to predict dynamic contact residue pairs. After being trained on a dataset of over 220000 experimental protein structures, our model achieved over 95\\% in overall accuracy, and can achieve over 0.89 on the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) on the test set. By using the inter-residue distance between the predicted residue pairs to construct Markov State Models and computing GMRQ score, we further prove that the predicted residue pairs of our model can be used as reaction coordinates for efficient sampling of protein conformational landscape and analysis of molecular dynamics simulation. Our work has proven that the evolutional correlation between residues can provide not only information on static structures, but also dynamical insights of proteins. It can be used as a cheap and fast way to guide enhanced sampling with little prior knowledge required (just sequence information). The predicted residue pairs can serve as reaction coordinates and be used for MD data analysis such as dimensionality reduction and understanding the slow motions of proteins. Overall, our work provides a data-driven method for characterizing the conformational ensemble of protein from sequential data using deep learning."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Inferring protein conformational ensemble using deep learning and evolutionary couplings"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Shukla, Diwakar"],"dc:creator":["Xue, Zhengyuan"],"dc:date":["2022-05","2022-05-02"],"dc:description":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01","The student, Zhengyuan Xue, accepted the attached license on 2022-04-29 at 14:52.","The student, Zhengyuan Xue, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-04-29 at 16:41.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-05-02 at 11:05.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17906 on 2022-11-11 at 12:11:54","Protein conformational dynamics is crucial for understanding protein structure-function relationship, but hard to sample and analyze due to their high-dimensional nature. Evolutionary couplings (ECs) have been proven to contain information about the structure and function of proteins, thus can be used for predicting residue contact or functional effect of mutations. We here show that ECs can also be used to infer protein dynamics. We present dynamicEC, a deep learning model based on ResNet that takes multiple kinds of features to predict dynamic contact residue pairs. After being trained on a dataset of over 220000 experimental protein structures, our model achieved over 95\\% in overall accuracy, and can achieve over 0.89 on the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) on the test set. By using the inter-residue distance between the predicted residue pairs to construct Markov State Models and computing GMRQ score, we further prove that the predicted residue pairs of our model can be used as reaction coordinates for efficient sampling of protein conformational landscape and analysis of molecular dynamics simulation. Our work has proven that the evolutional correlation between residues can provide not only information on static structures, but also dynamical insights of proteins. It can be used as a cheap and fast way to guide enhanced sampling with little prior knowledge required (just sequence information). The predicted residue pairs can serve as reaction coordinates and be used for MD data analysis such as dimensionality reduction and understanding the slow motions of proteins. Overall, our work provides a data-driven method for characterizing the conformational ensemble of protein from sequential data using deep learning."],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115600"],"dc:language":["en","eng"],"dc:rights":["Copyright 2022 Zhengyuan Xue"],"dc:subject":["Protein Conformational Dynamics","Deep Learning"],"dc:title":["Inferring protein conformational ensemble using deep learning and evolutionary couplings"],"dc:type":["text","Thesis"],"thesis:degree_discipline":["Biophysics & Quant Biology"],"thesis:degree_level":["Thesis"],"thesis:degree_name":["M.S."],"thesis:institution_name":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:54Z"}