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ArticleNature communications2026

Bridging sequence-structure motifs and genetic variants for genome-wide dynamic RNA-protein interaction profiling.

Yubo Wang, Haoran Zhu, Gaoyang Hao, Yanchi Su, Zhuohan Yu, Yuning Yang, Fuzhou Wang, Xingjian Chen, Ka-Chun Wong, Xiangtao Li

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10 authors.

Yubo WangSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Haoran ZhuSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-2696
Gaoyang HaoSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-1652-9899
Yanchi SuInformation Science and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Zhuohan YuSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Yuning YangInformation Science and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Fuzhou WangDivision of Genome Analysis Platform Development, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9028-5382
Xingjian ChenCutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-1584
Ka-Chun WongDepartment of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6062-733X
Xiangtao LiSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China. lixt314@jlu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8716-9823

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62472195
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) often recognize complex RNA secondary structure motifs, and these interactions can vary between cell lines. However, no current computational model can explain the dynamic behavior of RNA sequence-structure motifs across multiple cell lines and link these dynamics to the functional impact of genetic variation. Here we show BRIDGE, an end-to-end unified model that bridges sequence-structure motifs with the functional effects of noncoding genetic variants, thereby enabling genome-wide analysis of dynamic RNA-protein interaction profiles. Our evaluations demonstrate that BRIDGE outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in static single cell line predictions. Without any retraining, the framework transfers to unseen cellular contexts, thereby revealing a conserved yet adaptable grammar of RNA recognition. Attention-guided interpretation identified 3,571 integrative motifs, including motifs associated with splicing regulation. Moreover, genome-wide in-silico perturbation provides an interpretable view of RBP-binding disruption across variant classes, including splice-region and pathogenic alleles.

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Genetic VariationRNARNA-Binding ProteinsComputational BiologyHumansNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotide MotifsProtein BindingRNARNA-Binding Proteins

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