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# MeMDLM: De Novo Membrane Protein Design with Masked Diffusion Language Models

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/65bbea9a26c639b000501321/uWW6xnJZwQFWDS1QZNQTm.png)

Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs), introduced by Sahoo et al (arxiv.org/pdf/2406.07524), provide strong generative capabilities to BERT-style models. In this work, we pre-train and fine-tune ESM-2-150M on the MDLM objective to scaffold functional motifs while unconditionally generating realistic, high-quality membrane protein sequences.

## Model Usage

The MDLM model leverages an internal backbone model, which is a fine-tune of ESM2 (150M). This backbone model can be used through this repo:

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMaskedLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ChatterjeeLab/MeMDLM")
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("ChatterjeeLab/MeMDLM")

input_sequence = "QMMALTFITYIGCGLSSIFLSVTLVILIQLCAALLLLNLIFLLDSWIALYnTRGFCIAVAVFLHYFLLVSFTWMGLEAFHMYLKFCIVGWGIPAVVVSIVLTISPDNYGidFCWINSNVVFYITVVGYFCVIFLLNVSMFIVVLVQLCRIKKKKQLGDL"

inputs = tokenizer(input_sequence, return_tensors="pt")
output = model(**inputs)

filled_protein_seq = tokenizer.decode(output.squeeze()) # contains the output protein sequence with filled mask tokens
```

This backbone model can be integrated with the [MDLM formulation](https://github.com/kuleshov-group/mdlm) by setting the model backbone type to "hf_dit" and setting the HuggingFace Model ID to "ChatterjeeLab/MeMDLM"