PCANN Program for Structure-Based Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Affinity: Comparison With Other Neural-Network Predictors.

ABSTRACT: In this communication, we introduce a new structure-based affinity predictor for protein-protein complexes. This predictor, dubbed PCANN (Protein Complex Affinity by Neural Network), uses the ESM-2 language model to encode the information about protein binding interfaces and graph attention network (GAT) to parlay this information into Kd predictions. In the tests employing two previously unused literature-extracted datasets, PCANN performed better than the best of the publicly available predictors, BindPPI, with mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.3 versus 1.4 kcal/mol. Further progress in the development of Kd predictors using deep learning models is faced with two problems: (i) the amount of experimental data available to train and test new predictors is limited and (ii) the available Kd dat

SUBMITTER: Lebedenko OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12314579 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature