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ArticleNature communications2025

LABind: identifying protein binding ligand-aware sites via learning interactions between ligand and protein.

Zhijun Zhang, Lijun Quan, Junkai Wang, Liangchen Peng, Qiufeng Chen, Bei Zhang, Lexin Cao, Yelu Jiang, Geng Li, Liangpeng Nie and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Zhijun Zhang *School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Lijun Quan *School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. ljquan@suda.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-4198
Junkai WangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Liangchen PengSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Qiufeng ChenSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Bei ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Lexin CaoSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Yelu JiangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Geng LiSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Liangpeng NieSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Tingfang WuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. tfwu@suda.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-2436
Qiang LyuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. qiang@suda.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-835X

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62272335
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-ligand interactions are crucial for understanding various biological processes and drug discovery and design. However, experimental methods are costly; single-ligand-oriented methods are tailored to specific ligands; multi-ligand-oriented methods are constrained by the lack of ligand encoding. In this study, we propose a structure-based method called LABind, designed to predict binding sites for small molecules and ions in a ligand-aware manner. LABind utilizes a graph transformer to capture binding patterns within the local spatial context of proteins, and incorporates a cross-attention mechanism to learn the distinct binding characteristics between proteins and ligands. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate both the effectiveness of LABind and its ability to generalize to unseen ligands. Further analysis validates that LABind can effectively integrate ligand information to predict binding sites. Additionally, the application of LABind is extended to binding site center localization, sequence-based methods, and molecular docking tasks.

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ProteinsAlgorithmsBinding SitesDatabases, ProteinHumansLigandsMolecular Docking SimulationProtein BindingLigandsProteins

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PMID40830361
PMCPMC12365077

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