EquiPocket: an E(3)-Equivariant Geometric Graph Neural Network for Ligand Binding Site Prediction

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yang, Wei, Zhewei, Yuan, Ye, Li, Chongxuan, Huang, Wenbing
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Publicado: 2023
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author Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Yuan, Ye
Li, Chongxuan
Huang, Wenbing
author_facet Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Yuan, Ye
Li, Chongxuan
Huang, Wenbing
contents Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery. Most existing deep-learning methods consider a protein as a 3D image by spatially clustering its atoms into voxels and then feed the voxelized protein into a 3D CNN for prediction. However, the CNN-based methods encounter several critical issues: 1) defective in representing irregular protein structures; 2) sensitive to rotations; 3) insufficient to characterize the protein surface; 4) unaware of protein size shift. To address the above issues, this work proposes EquiPocket, an E(3)-equivariant Graph Neural Network (GNN) for binding site prediction, which comprises three modules: the first one to extract local geometric information for each surface atom, the second one to model both the chemical and spatial structure of protein and the last one to capture the geometry of the surface via equivariant message passing over the surface atoms. We further propose a dense attention output layer to alleviate the effect incurred by variable protein size. Extensive experiments on several representative benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our framework to the state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle EquiPocket: an E(3)-Equivariant Geometric Graph Neural Network for Ligand Binding Site Prediction
Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Yuan, Ye
Li, Chongxuan
Huang, Wenbing
Biomolecules
Machine Learning
Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery. Most existing deep-learning methods consider a protein as a 3D image by spatially clustering its atoms into voxels and then feed the voxelized protein into a 3D CNN for prediction. However, the CNN-based methods encounter several critical issues: 1) defective in representing irregular protein structures; 2) sensitive to rotations; 3) insufficient to characterize the protein surface; 4) unaware of protein size shift. To address the above issues, this work proposes EquiPocket, an E(3)-equivariant Graph Neural Network (GNN) for binding site prediction, which comprises three modules: the first one to extract local geometric information for each surface atom, the second one to model both the chemical and spatial structure of protein and the last one to capture the geometry of the surface via equivariant message passing over the surface atoms. We further propose a dense attention output layer to alleviate the effect incurred by variable protein size. Extensive experiments on several representative benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our framework to the state-of-the-art methods.
title EquiPocket: an E(3)-Equivariant Geometric Graph Neural Network for Ligand Binding Site Prediction
topic Biomolecules
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12177