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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2025

INAB: identify nucleic acid binding domain via cross-modal protein language models and multiscale computation.

Jun Zhang, Hao Zeng, Junjie Chen, Zexuan Zhu

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 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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Jun ZhangSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0484-0966
Hao ZengSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
Junjie ChenSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518060, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0483-303X
Zexuan ZhuSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8479-6904

Funding

Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2024A1515011681Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2025A1515010185Internal Fund of National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology SZU-BDSC-IF2024-01National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFF1202104National Natural Science Foundation of China 62302311National Natural Science Foundation of China 62471310Shenzhen Colleges and Universities Stable Support Program GXWD20220811170504001Shenzhen Research Initiation Program for High-Caliber Critical Talent 827-000932Shenzhen Science and Technology Program JCYJ20230807094318038
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Abstract

Protein-nucleic acid interactions play a crucial role in biological processes, including gene regulation and editing. Accurately identifying nucleic acid-binding domains in proteins is essential to unravel these interactions, yet traditional experimental methods like X-ray crystallography remain costly and time-intensive. Computational approaches have thus emerged as indispensable tools to complement wet-lab techniques. Here, we introduce a framework for nucleic acid-binding domain prediction by integrating cross-modal protein language models with a multiscale computational architecture. The proposed method leverages a structurally annotated benchmark dataset, which quantifies binding likelihood through hierarchical, proximity-based labels derived from experimental complexes. Evaluations demonstrate that the approach achieves state-of-the-art performance, providing a new insight into the design of multimodal learning systems in protein-nucleic acid interaction analysis and an open resource to accelerate discoveries in functional genomics and drug design.

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Computational BiologyDNA-Binding ProteinsNucleic AcidsSoftwareBinding SitesHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein DomainsDNA-Binding ProteinsNucleic Acidsmultiscale computationnucleic acid binding domainprotein language model

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