A Hybrid Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Model for Plant Ubiquitination Sites Prediction
摘要
Protein ubiquitination is a critical post-translational modification involved in numerous biological processes, playing a vital role in regulating both physiological and pathological mechanisms. Despite existing tools for predicting ubiquitination sites, variations in ubiquitination patterns among species remain inadequately understood. This study presents LBiPlantUbi, a novel hybrid deep learning model that incorporates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM) networks combined with natural language processing (NLP) techniques for predicting ubiquitination sites in plants. Our model uniquely learns features directly from raw protein sequences using word embedding and integrates feature extraction and prediction within a single architecture. LBiPlantUbi achieved superior performance with an accuracy of 84%, sensitivity of 88.9%, F1-score of 0.844, MCC of 0.675, and AUC of 0.902 on independent testing sets, outperforming existing methods. This advanced model opens new avenues for studying ubiquitination in plants and other species. The implementation is publicly accessible on GitHub at https://github.com/nuinvtnu/LBiPlantUbi .