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ArticleNature methods2026

eSIG-Net: an interaction language model that decodes the protein code of single mutations.

Xingxin Pan, Aditya Shrawat, Sidharth Raghavan, Chuanpeng Dong, Yuntao Yang, Zhao Li, W Jim Zheng, S Gail Eckhardt, Erxi Wu, Juan I Fuxman Bass and 7 more

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Xingxin Pan *Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA. xingxin.pan@bswhealth.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4429-4878
Aditya Shrawat *Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sidharth Raghavan *Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6891-5627
Chuanpeng DongDepartment of Genetics, and Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Yuntao YangMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Zhao LiMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-9879
W Jim ZhengMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7411-6047
S Gail EckhardtDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Erxi WuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1680-3639
Juan I Fuxman BassDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9457-1207
Daniel F JaroszDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, and Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3497-5888
Sidi ChenDepartment of Genetics, and Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3819-5005
Daniel J McGrailCenter for Immunotherapy and Precision Immuno-Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6669-6069
Gloria M SheynkmanDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-9947
Jason H HuangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA. jason.huang@bswhealth.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4426-0168
Nidhi SahniDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor Research Institute and Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA. nidhi.sahni.2025@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-5882
S Stephen YiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA. song.yi@bcm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0047-8103

Funding

Tumor BiologyP30CA125123 · NCI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI DAVID R ROWLEY · 2007 to 2026
$73.9M
Linking genome variation to transcriptional network dynamics in human B cellsU01HG012041 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Jishnu Das, HARINDER SINGH · 2021 to 2026
$6.1M
Engagement and outreach to achieve a FAIR data ecosystem for the BICANU24MH130988 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HUA XU, Guo-Qiang ZHANG · 2022 to 2026
$4.6M
Structure and Function of Immune Gene Regulatory NetworksR35GM128625 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Juan Ignacio Fuxman Bass · 2018 to 2026
$4.0M
Network-based Framework to Decode Novel Gain-of-Function Mutations and their Mechanistic Roles in General Human DiseasesR35GM133658 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI S. Stephen Yi · 2019 to 2026
$2.6M
Deciphering Functional Consequences of Specific and Combinatorial Mutations in Protein Interaction NetworksR35GM137836 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI SAHNI, NIDHI · 2020 to 2023
$1.8M
Mechanisms of Action of Natural Genetic VariationR01HG012366 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Daniel Jarosz · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
IMAT-ITCR Collaboration: A Cytoscape Toolkit to Model Proteoform-Resolved Cancer NetworksR33CA281919 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Gloria Sheynkman · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
Determining the Immunological Consequences of DNA Replication Stress Response Defects in Renal Cells Carcinoma to Improve Immunotherapy OutcomesR00CA240689 · NCI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI MCGRAIL, DANIEL JAMES · 2022 to 2024
$747k
Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Lloyd Old STAR Award (CRI 4964)NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128625U.S. Department of Defense (United States Department of Defense) W81XWH-22-1-0164U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) P30CA125123U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R00CA240689U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R33CA281919U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R01HG012366U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) U01HG012041U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM128625U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM133658U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM137836U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) U24MH130988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most proteins act through interactions with other molecules, yet predicting how single mutations perturb these interactions-defined as 'protein codes'-remains a central challenge in computational biology. Here we introduce eSIG-Net, the edgetic mutation sequence-based interaction grammar network, a language model that integrates protein sequence embeddings with syntax-aware and evolution-aware mutation encoding and contrastive learning to predict mutation-driven interaction changes. eSIG-Net outperforms state-of-the-art sequence-based and structure-based methods, nominates causal variants and provides mechanistic insights. Together, eSIG-Net is a mutation-centric interaction language model that accurately predicts interaction-specific network rewiring from sequence information alone and generalizes across biological contexts.

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