Efflux protein plays a key role in pumping xenobiotics out of the cells.
The prediction of efflux family proteins involved in transport process of compounds is crucial for understanding family structures,
functions and energy dependencies. Many methods have been proposed to classify efflux pump transporters without considerations of any pump-specific
of efflux protein families. In other words, efflux proteins protect cells from extrusion of foreign chemicals.
Moreover, almost all efflux proteins families have the same structure based on the analysis of significant motifs.
The motif sequences consisting of the same amount of residues will have high degrees of residue similarity and thus will affect the classification process.
Consequently, it is challenging but vital to recognize the structures and determine energy dependencies of efflux protein families.
In order to efficiently identify efflux protein families with considering about pump-specific, we developed a two-dimensional Convolutional
Neural Network (2D CNN) model called DeepEfflux. DeepEfflux tried to capture the motifs of sequences around hidden target residues to use as hidden
features of families. In addition, the 2D CNN model uses a Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) as an input. Three different data sets, each for one
family of efflux protein was fed into DeepEfflux,
and then a five-fold cross validation approach was used to evaluate the training performance.