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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2025

PPI-Graphomer: enhanced protein-protein affinity prediction using pretrained and graph transformer models.

Jun Xie, Youli Zhang, Ziyang Wang, Xiaocheng Jin, Xiaoli Lu, Shengxiang Ge, Xiaoping Min

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Jun XieInstitute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatic, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China.
Youli ZhangNational Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China.
Ziyang WangInstitute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatic, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China.
Xiaocheng JinNational Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China.
Xiaoli LuInformation and Networking Center, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China.
Shengxiang GeNational Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China. sxge@xmu.edu.cn.
Xiaoping MinInstitute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatic, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Rd, Xiamen, 361005, China. mxp@xmu.edu.cn.

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Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 20720220006Major Science and Technology Project of Fujian Provincial Health Commission 2021ZD01006National Natural Science Foundation of China 62272399Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project 2023ZD0501001
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Abstract

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) refer to the phenomenon of protein binding through various types of bonds to execute biological functions. These interactions are critical for understanding biological mechanisms and drug research. Among these, the protein binding interface is a critical region involved in protein-protein interactions, particularly the hotspot residues on it that play a key role in protein interactions. Current deep learning methods trained on large-scale data can characterize proteins to a certain extent, but they often struggle to adequately capture information about protein binding interfaces. To address this limitation, we propose the PPI-Graphomer module, which integrates pretrained features from large-scale language models and inverse folding models. This approach enhances the characterization of protein binding interfaces by defining edge relationships and interface masks on the basis of molecular interaction information. Our model outperforms existing methods across multiple benchmark datasets and demonstrates strong generalization capabilities.

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Protein Interaction MappingProteinsSoftwareAmino Acid SequenceDatasets as TopicLarge Language ModelsProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProtein Interaction MapsProteinsBind affinity predictionESMGraph transformer

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PMID40301762
PMCPMC12042501

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