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DensePPI-2: a bio-inspired update for sequence-based PPI prediction leveraging mutation rates.

Tapas Chakraborty¹, Debarati Paul^1,2, Aanzil Akram Halsana¹

¹Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India.

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DensePPI-2, a novel deep learning model, accurately identifies interacting protein pairs by conserving evolutionary regions. This advancement improves predictions for drug design and understanding disease mechanisms.

Keywords:

BLOSUM PAM protein–protein interaction substitution matrix

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Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Molecular Biology

Background:

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to cellular processes and disease mechanisms.
Existing computational methods often simplify PPIs to binary interactions, neglecting evolutionary functional regions.
Accurate prediction of PPIs and interaction sites is vital for drug discovery and understanding diseases.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel computational model for identifying interacting protein pairs that considers evolutionary conserved regions.
To improve the accuracy of predicting protein-protein interactions and potential interaction sites.

Main Methods:

Developed DensePPI-2, a deep learning model utilizing bio-inspired substitution matrix-based sequence encoding.
Incorporated position-aware encoding to capture amino acid sequence order and protein folding patterns.
Evaluated model performance on S. cerevisiae and human benchmark datasets.

Main Results:

DensePPI-2 achieved an AUC of 97.13% on the S. cerevisiae dataset, surpassing existing methods by 1.4%.
The model demonstrated superior performance over recent sequence-based approaches on the human benchmark dataset.
Successfully applied DensePPI-2 to identify pathogen-host interactions and predict residue-level interactions without specific training.

Conclusions:

The bio-inspired sequence-to-image color encoding strategy using substitution matrices is effective for PPI prediction.
DensePPI-2 offers a significant advancement in accurately identifying interacting protein pairs and their functional regions.
The model's versatility extends to pathogen-host interaction identification and residue-level prediction, highlighting its potential in biological research and drug development.