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Deep flanking sequence engineering for efficient promoter design using DeepSEED

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  • Pengcheng Zhang

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Haochen Wang

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Hanwen Xu

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Lei Wei

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Liyang Liu

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Zhirui Hu

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Xiaowo Wang

    (Tsinghua University)

Abstract

Designing promoters with desirable properties is essential in synthetic biology. Human experts are skilled at identifying strong explicit patterns in small samples, while deep learning models excel at detecting implicit weak patterns in large datasets. Biologists have described the sequence patterns of promoters via transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). However, the flanking sequences of cis-regulatory elements, have long been overlooked and often arbitrarily decided in promoter design. To address this limitation, we introduce DeepSEED, an AI-aided framework that efficiently designs synthetic promoters by combining expert knowledge with deep learning techniques. DeepSEED has demonstrated success in improving the properties of Escherichia coli constitutive, IPTG-inducible, and mammalian cell doxycycline (Dox)-inducible promoters. Furthermore, our results show that DeepSEED captures the implicit features in flanking sequences, such as k-mer frequencies and DNA shape features, which are crucial for determining promoter properties.

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  • Pengcheng Zhang & Haochen Wang & Hanwen Xu & Lei Wei & Liyang Liu & Zhirui Hu & Xiaowo Wang, 2023. "Deep flanking sequence engineering for efficient promoter design using DeepSEED," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-14, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-41899-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41899-y
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