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EquiPNAS: improved protein-nucleic acid binding site prediction using protein-language-model-informed equivariant
Rahmatullah Roche1, Bernard Moussad1, Md Hossain Shuvo1
1Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States of America.
Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology
|September 25, 2023
Summary
EquiPNAS, a novel framework, enhances protein-nucleic acid binding site prediction by integrating protein language models (pLMs) with E(3) equivariant deep graph neural networks. This approach significantly improves accuracy and reduces reliance on evolutionary data.
Area of Science:
- Computational biology
- Bioinformatics
- Structural biology
Background:
- Predicting protein-nucleic acid binding sites is crucial for understanding molecular interactions.
- Existing methods often struggle with scalability and generalizability.
- Protein language models (pLMs) show promise but haven't been fully utilized for this task.
Approach:
- Introduced EquiPNAS, a framework combining pLM embeddings with E(3) equivariant deep graph neural networks.
- Leveraged symmetry-aware graph learning for robust predictions.
- Evaluated performance on diverse datasets for protein-DNA and protein-RNA binding site prediction.
Key Points:
- EquiPNAS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in protein-nucleic acid binding site prediction.
- pLM embeddings reduce the need for evolutionary information without sacrificing accuracy.
- The E(3) equivariant graph architecture ensures robustness and performance resilience.
Conclusions:
- EquiPNAS offers a significant advancement in predicting protein-nucleic acid binding sites.
- The framework demonstrates the power of combining pLMs with advanced graph neural networks.
- EquiPNAS is available open-source, facilitating further research and application.
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