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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2021

PUResNet: prediction of protein-ligand binding sites using deep residual neural network.

Jeevan Kandel, Hilal Tayara, Kil To Chong

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeevan KandelGraduate School of Integrated Energy-AI, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea.
Hilal TayaraSchool of International Engineering and Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea. hilaltayara@jbnu.ac.kr.
Kil To ChongDepartment of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea. kitchong@jbnu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1952-0001
Jeonju National University of Education · KRJeonbuk National University · KR

Funding

Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning 20204010600470National Research Foundation of Korea 2020R1A2C2005612National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2017M3C7A1044816
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPredicting protein-ligand binding sites is a fundamental step in understanding the functional characteristics of proteins, which plays a vital role in elucidating different biological functions and is a crucial step in drug discovery. A protein exhibits its true nature after binding to its interacting molecule known as a ligand that binds only in the favorable binding site of the protein structure. Different computational methods exploiting the features of proteins have been developed to identify the binding sites in the protein structure, but none seems to provide promising results, and therefore, further investigation is required.

resultsIn this study, we present a deep learning model PUResNet and a novel data cleaning process based on structural similarity for predicting protein-ligand binding sites. From the whole scPDB (an annotated database of druggable binding sites extracted from the Protein DataBank) database, 5020 protein structures were selected to address this problem, which were used to train PUResNet. With this, we achieved better and justifiable performance than the existing methods while evaluating two independent sets using distance, volume and proportion metrics.

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Binding site predictionConvolutional neural networkData cleaningDeep residual networkLigand binding sites

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PMID34496970
PMCPMC8424938
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