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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2025

Predicting the location of coordinated metal ion-ligand binding sites using geometry-aware graph neural networks.

Clement Essien, Ning Wang, Yang Yu, Salhuldin Alqarghuli, Yongfang Qin, Negin Manshour, Fei He, Dong Xu

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Clement EssienDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Ning WangSchool of Information Science and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Yang YuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Salhuldin AlqarghuliDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Yongfang QinDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Negin ManshourDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Fei HeDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Dong XuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.

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Abstract

More than 50 % of proteins bind to metal ions. Interactions between metal ions and proteins, especially coordinated interactions, are essential for biological functions, such as maintaining protein structure and signal transport. Physiological metal-ion binding prediction is pivotal for both elucidating the biological functions of proteins and for the design of new drugs. However, accurately predicting these interactions remains challenging. In this study, we proposed GPred, a novel structure-based method that transforms the 3-dimensional structure of a protein into a point cloud representation and then designs a geometry-aware graph neural network to learn the local structural properties of each amino acid residue under specific ligand-binding supervision. We trained our model to predict the location of coordinated binding sites for five essential metal ions: Zn

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Binding sitesGraph neural networkMetal ionsPoint cloudProtein structures

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PMID39840139
PMCPMC11750443

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