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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

Deep geometric representations for modeling effects of mutations on protein-protein binding affinity.

Xianggen Liu, Yunan Luo, Pengyong Li, Sen Song, Jian Peng

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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72citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 134 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Recent progress and future challenges in structure-based protein-protein interaction prediction.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xianggen LiuLaboratory for Brain and Intelligence and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6368-2043
Yunan LuoDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-7728-6412
Pengyong LiLaboratory for Brain and Intelligence and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5971-046X
Sen SongLaboratory for Brain and Intelligence and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jian PengDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-1736-2978
Tsinghua University · CNUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USSouthwest Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modeling the impact of amino acid mutations on protein-protein interaction plays a crucial role in protein engineering and drug design. In this study, we develop GeoPPI, a novel structure-based deep-learning framework to predict the change of binding affinity upon mutations. Based on the three-dimensional structure of a protein, GeoPPI first learns a geometric representation that encodes topology features of the protein structure via a self-supervised learning scheme. These representations are then used as features for training gradient-boosting trees to predict the changes of protein-protein binding affinity upon mutations. We find that GeoPPI is able to learn meaningful features that characterize interactions between atoms in protein structures. In addition, through extensive experiments, we show that GeoPPI achieves new state-of-the-art performance in predicting the binding affinity changes upon both single- and multi-point mutations on six benchmark datasets. Moreover, we show that GeoPPI can accurately estimate the difference of binding affinities between a few recently identified SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the S protein. These results demonstrate the potential of GeoPPI as a powerful and useful computational tool in protein design and engineering. Our code and datasets are available at: https://github.com/Liuxg16/GeoPPI.

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Amino Acid SubstitutionModels, ChemicalPoint MutationProtein BindingProteinsProteins

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PMID34347784
PMCPMC8366979
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