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ArticleMachine learning: science and technology2025

Topological machine learning for protein-nucleic acid binding affinity changes upon mutation.

Xiang Liu, Junjie Wee, Guo-Wei Wei

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3 authors.

Xiang LiuDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America.
Junjie WeeDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8444-3252
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8132-5998

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Discovery-Driven Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence for Biosciences and Drug DiscoveryR35GM148196 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Guowei Wei · 2023 to 2026
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NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how protein mutations affect protein-nucleic acid binding is critical for unraveling disease mechanisms and advancing therapies. Current experimental approaches are laborious, and computational methods remain limited in accuracy. To address this challenge, we propose a novel topological machine learning model (TopoML) combining persistent Laplacian (from topological data analysis) with multi-perspective features: physicochemical properties, topological structures, and protein Transformer-derived sequence embeddings. This integrative framework captures robust representations of protein-nucleic acid binding interactions. To validate the proposed method, we employ two datasets, a protein-DNA dataset with 596 single-point amino acid mutations, and a protein-RNA dataset with 710 single-point amino acid mutations. We show that the proposed TopoML model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting mutation-induced binding affinity changes for protein-DNA and protein-RNA complexes.

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binding affinity changes upon mutationpersistent Laplaciansprotein–DNAprotein–RNAtopological machine learning

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PMID42666980
PMCPMC13523844

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