GraphBind: Protein structural context embedded rules learned by hierarchical graph neural networks for recognizing nucleic-acid-binding residues

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Abstract

Knowledge of the interactions between proteins and nucleic acids is the basis of understanding various biological activities and designing new drugs. How to accurately identify the nucleic-acid-binding residues remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an accurate predictor, GraphBind, for identifying nucleic-acid-binding residues on proteins based on an end-to-end graph neural network. Considering that binding sites often behave in highly conservative patterns on local tertiary structures, we first construct graphs based on the structural contexts of target residues and their spatial neighborhood. Then, hierarchical graph neural networks (HGNNs) are used to embed the latent local patterns of structural and bio-physicochemical characteristics for binding residue recognition. We comprehensively evaluate GraphBind on DNA/RNA benchmark datasets. The results demonstrate the superior performance of GraphBind than state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, GraphBind is extended to other ligand-binding residue prediction to verify its generalization capability. Web server of GraphBind is freely available at http://www.csbio.sjtu.edu.cn/bioinf/GraphBind/.

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Xia, Y., Xia, C. Q., Pan, X., & Shen, H. B. (2021). GraphBind: Protein structural context embedded rules learned by hierarchical graph neural networks for recognizing nucleic-acid-binding residues. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(9), E51. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab044

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