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ArticleNature communications2025

DTIAM: a unified framework for predicting drug-target interactions, binding affinities and drug mechanisms.

Zhangli Lu, Guoqiang Song, Huimin Zhu, Chuqi Lei, Xinliang Sun, Kaili Wang, Libo Qin, Yafei Chen, Jing Tang, Min Li

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Zhangli Lu *School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Guoqiang Song *School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China.
Huimin ZhuSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Chuqi LeiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Xinliang SunSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Kaili WangSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Libo QinSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China.
Yafei ChenSchool of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China.
Jing TangResearch Program in Systems Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00290, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-7710
Min LiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China. limin@mail.csu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0188-1394

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62225209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and robust prediction of drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays a vital role in drug discovery but remains challenging due to limited labeled data, cold start problems, and insufficient understanding of mechanisms of action (MoA). Distinguishing activation and inhibition mechanisms is particularly critical in clinical applications. Here, we propose DTIAM, a unified framework for predicting interactions, binding affinities, and activation/inhibition mechanisms between drugs and targets. DTIAM learns drug and target representations from large amounts of label-free data through self-supervised pre-training, which accurately extracts their substructure and contextual information, and thus benefits the downstream prediction based on these representations. DTIAM achieves substantial performance improvement over other state-of-the-art methods in all tasks, particularly in the cold start scenario. Moreover, independent validation demonstrates the strong generalization ability of DTIAM. All these results suggest that DTIAM can provide a practically useful tool for predicting novel DTIs and further distinguishing the MoA of candidate drugs.

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