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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2025

GTE-PPIS: a protein-protein interaction site predictor based on graph transformer and equivariant graph neural network.

Xun Wang, Tongyu Han, Runqiu Feng, Zhijun Xia, Hanyu Wang, Wenqian Yu, Huanhuan Dai, Haonan Song, Tao Song

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Xun WangShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2741-433X
Tongyu HanShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0006-7665-2541
Runqiu FengShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0007-8755-9083
Zhijun XiaShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0009-4257-5690
Hanyu WangShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0003-6610-8962
Wenqian YuShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0003-6028-6610
Huanhuan DaiShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.
Haonan SongShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0003-2183-2586
Tao SongShandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China.ORCID 0009-0004-1440-0790

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2021YFA1000103-3National Natural Science Foundation of China 61972416Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province ZR2022LZH009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a critical role in cellular functions, which are essential for maintaining the proper physiological state of organisms. Therefore, identifying PPI sites with high accuracy is crucial. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant progress in predicting PPI sites, but there is still potential for further enhancement. In this study, we introduce GTE-PPIS, an innovative PPI site predictor that utilizes two components: a graph transformer and an equivariant GNN, to collaboratively extract features. These extracted features are subsequently processed through a multilayer perceptron to generate the final predictions. Our experimental results show that GTE-PPIS consistently outperforms existing methods on multiple evaluation metrics across benchmark datasets, strongly supporting the effectiveness of our approach.

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Computational BiologyNeural Networks, ComputerProtein Interaction MappingProteinsAlgorithmsDatabases, ProteinGraph Neural NetworksHumansProtein Interaction MapsProteinsdeep learningdual-branch architecturegraph neural networkprotein–protein interaction site

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PMID40524427
PMCPMC12199915

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