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MEG-PPIS: a fast protein-protein interaction site prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and equivariant graph neural network.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Protein-protein interaction sites (PPIS) are crucial for deciphering protein action mechanisms and related medical research, which is the key issue in protein action research. Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks have achieved outstanding performance in predicting PPIS. However, these studies often neglect the modeling of information at different scales in the graph and the symmetry of protein molecules within three-dimensional space.

Results

In response to this gap, this article proposes the MEG-PPIS approach, a PPIS prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and E(n) equivariant graph neural network (EGNN). There are two channels in MEG-PPIS: the original graph and the subgraph obtained by graph pooling. The model can iteratively update the features of the original graph and subgraph through the weight-sharing EGNN. Subsequently, the max-pooling operation aggregates the updated features of the original graph and subgraph. Ultimately, the model feeds node features into the prediction layer to obtain prediction results. Comparative assessments against other methods on benchmark datasets reveal that MEG-PPIS achieves optimal performance across all evaluation metrics and gets the fastest runtime. Furthermore, specific case studies demonstrate that our method can predict more true positive and true negative sites than the current best method, proving that our model achieves better performance in the PPIS prediction task.

Availability and implementation

The data and code are available at https://github.com/dhz234/MEG-PPIS.git.

SUBMITTER: Ding H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11252844 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MEG-PPIS: a fast protein-protein interaction site prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and equivariant graph neural network.

Ding Hongzhen H Li Xue X Han Peifu P Tian Xu X Jing Fengrui F Wang Shuang S Song Tao T Fu Hanjiao H Kang Na N

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20240101 5

<h4>Motivation</h4>Protein-protein interaction sites (PPIS) are crucial for deciphering protein action mechanisms and related medical research, which is the key issue in protein action research. Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks have achieved outstanding performance in predicting PPIS. However, these studies often neglect the modeling of information at different scales in the graph and the symmetry of protein molecules within three-dimensional space.<h4>Results</h4>In response ...[more]

PMID: 38640481

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Dataset Information

MEG-PPIS: a fast protein-protein interaction site prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and equivariant graph neural network.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

Publications

MEG-PPIS: a fast protein-protein interaction site prediction method based on multi-scale graph information and equivariant graph neural network.

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