unZipro：以极少筛选简化计算机模拟蛋白质进化
Simplifying in silico protein evolution with minimal screening by unZipro
用人工智能设计蛋白质时，现有方法往往需要反复做实验验证，成功率有限、改进幅度不大，或计算成本很高，用于改造植物蛋白更是少有探索。作者提出 unZipro，一个零样本、纯计算的蛋白质进化框架，把一个小型预训练逆折叠模型与元学习结合，推导出特定蛋白家族的适应度图谱。在九种不同蛋白上，该框架只需约十个候选变体就能直接找出高活性变体，平均成功率 61%，其中 T5E-CasΦ2 融合变体的基因编辑活性最高提升 28 倍。借助它，研究者还开发出性能领先的植物基因编辑核酸酶、更优的萤火虫荧光素酶变体、增强的水稻转录因子以及活性更高的大麦来源抗病毒蛋白。作者称这为低成本、易推广的蛋白质工程提供了新范式。
为什么推荐给您：零样本蛋白设计新框架，少量候选即获高活性，具转化前景但尚属体外验证。
不需要生物学背景，多打比方
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摘要Abstract
Despite the significant progress made in recent years, current AI-driven protein engineering methods often suffer from iterative experimental validation, limited success rates, modest improvements, and/or high computational costs. Moreover, their utility for evolving plant proteins remains unexplored. Here we present unZipro, an efficient, scalable, and generalizable framework for zero-shot, in silico protein evolution. unZipro integrates a compact, pre-trained inverse folding model with meta-learning to derive family-specific fitness landscapes. We demonstrate unZipro's ability to directly identify high-activity variants from minimal libraries (∼10 candidates) with an average success rate of 61% across nine diverse proteins, achieving up to a 28-fold increase in the gene-editing activity of T5E-CasΦ2 fusion variants. Leveraging unZipro, we developed state-of-the-art plant gene-editing nucleases, superior firefly luciferase variants, enhanced rice transcription factors, and barley-derived antiviral proteins with elevated potency. Overall, unZipro represents a new paradigm for cost-effective, widely accessible, and transformative protein engineering in biology, biotechnology, and agriculture.