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ArticleNature methods2022

ScanNet: an interpretable geometric deep learning model for structure-based protein binding site prediction.

Jérôme Tubiana, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Haim J Wolfson

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Article in Nature methods, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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131 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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3 authors.

Jérôme TubianaBlavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. jertubiana@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8878-5620
Dina Schneidman-DuhovnySchool of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. dina.schneidman@mail.huji.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0480-0438
Haim J WolfsonBlavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. wolfson@tau.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7600-2702

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predicting the functional sites of a protein from its structure, such as the binding sites of small molecules, other proteins or antibodies, sheds light on its function in vivo. Currently, two classes of methods prevail: machine learning models built on top of handcrafted features and comparative modeling. They are, respectively, limited by the expressivity of the handcrafted features and the availability of similar proteins. Here, we introduce ScanNet, an end-to-end, interpretable geometric deep learning model that learns features directly from 3D structures. ScanNet builds representations of atoms and amino acids based on the spatio-chemical arrangement of their neighbors. We train ScanNet for detecting protein-protein and protein-antibody binding sites, demonstrate its accuracy-including for unseen protein folds-and interpret the filters learned. Finally, we predict epitopes of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, validating known antigenic regions and predicting previously uncharacterized ones. Overall, ScanNet is a versatile, powerful and interpretable model suitable for functional site prediction tasks. A webserver for ScanNet is available from http://bioinfo3d.cs.tau.ac.il/ScanNet/ .

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COVID-19Deep LearningBinding SitesHumansProtein BindingProteinsSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusProteinsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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