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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fu, Hongguang
• Liang, Yanbing
• Zhong, Xiuqin
• Pan, ZhiLing
• Huang, Lei
• Zhang, HaiLin
• Xu, Yang
• Zhou, Wei
• Liu, Zhong

Titel

Codon optimization with deep learning to enhance protein expression

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2020-10, Vol.10 (1), p.17617-17617, Article 17617

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Heterologous expression is the main approach for recombinant protein production ingenetic synthesis, for which codon optimization is necessary. The existing optimization methods are based on biological indexes. In this paper, we propose a novel codon optimization method based on deep learning. First, we introduce the concept of codon boxes, via which DNA sequences can be recoded into codon box sequences while ignoring the order of bases. Then, the problem of codon optimization can be converted to sequence annotation of corresponding amino acids with codon boxes. The codon optimization models for Escherichia Coli were trained by the Bidirectional Long-Short-Term Memory Conditional Random Field. Theoretically, deep learning is a good method to obtain the distribution characteristics of DNA. In addition to the comparison of the codon adaptation index, protein expression experiments for plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine and polymerase acidic protein were implemented for comparison with the original sequences and the optimized sequences from Genewiz and ThermoFisher. The results show that our method for enhancing protein expression is efficient and competitive.