FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction

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Main Authors: Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao, Yuan, Ke, Ounis, Iadh
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author Meng, Zhaohan
Meng, Zaiqiao
Yuan, Ke
Ounis, Iadh
author_facet Meng, Zhaohan
Meng, Zaiqiao
Yuan, Ke
Ounis, Iadh
contents Predicting drug-target interaction (DTI) is critical in the drug discovery process. Despite remarkable advances in recent DTI models through the integration of representations from diverse drug and target encoders, such models often struggle to capture the fine-grained interactions between drugs and protein, i.e. the binding of specific drug atoms (or substructures) and key amino acids of proteins, which is crucial for understanding the binding mechanisms and optimising drug design. To address this issue, this paper introduces a novel model, called FusionDTI, which uses a token-level Fusion module to effectively learn fine-grained information for Drug-Target Interaction. In particular, our FusionDTI model uses the SELFIES representation of drugs to mitigate sequence fragment invalidation and incorporates the structure-aware (SA) vocabulary of target proteins to address the limitation of amino acid sequences in structural information, additionally leveraging pre-trained language models extensively trained on large-scale biomedical datasets as encoders to capture the complex information of drugs and targets. Experiments on three well-known benchmark datasets show that our proposed FusionDTI model achieves the best performance in DTI prediction compared with seven existing state-of-the-art baselines. Furthermore, our case study indicates that FusionDTI could highlight the potential binding sites, enhancing the explainability of the DTI prediction.
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spellingShingle FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction
Meng, Zhaohan
Meng, Zaiqiao
Yuan, Ke
Ounis, Iadh
Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Biomolecules
Predicting drug-target interaction (DTI) is critical in the drug discovery process. Despite remarkable advances in recent DTI models through the integration of representations from diverse drug and target encoders, such models often struggle to capture the fine-grained interactions between drugs and protein, i.e. the binding of specific drug atoms (or substructures) and key amino acids of proteins, which is crucial for understanding the binding mechanisms and optimising drug design. To address this issue, this paper introduces a novel model, called FusionDTI, which uses a token-level Fusion module to effectively learn fine-grained information for Drug-Target Interaction. In particular, our FusionDTI model uses the SELFIES representation of drugs to mitigate sequence fragment invalidation and incorporates the structure-aware (SA) vocabulary of target proteins to address the limitation of amino acid sequences in structural information, additionally leveraging pre-trained language models extensively trained on large-scale biomedical datasets as encoders to capture the complex information of drugs and targets. Experiments on three well-known benchmark datasets show that our proposed FusionDTI model achieves the best performance in DTI prediction compared with seven existing state-of-the-art baselines. Furthermore, our case study indicates that FusionDTI could highlight the potential binding sites, enhancing the explainability of the DTI prediction.
title FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction
topic Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01651