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Deep-learning-enabled protein–protein interaction analysis for prediction of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and variant evolution

Nature medicine(2023)

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Abstract
Host–pathogen interactions and pathogen evolution are underpinned by protein–protein interactions between viral and host proteins. An understanding of how viral variants affect protein–protein binding is important for predicting viral–host interactions, such as the emergence of new pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 variants. Here we propose an artificial intelligence-based framework called UniBind, in which proteins are represented as a graph at the residue and atom levels. UniBind integrates protein three-dimensional structure and binding affinity and is capable of multi-task learning for heterogeneous biological data integration. In systematic tests on benchmark datasets and further experimental validation, UniBind effectively and scalably predicted the effects of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants on their binding affinities to the human ACE2 receptor, as well as to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore, in a cross-species analysis, UniBind could be applied to predict host susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 variants and to predict future viral variant evolutionary trends. This in silico approach has the potential to serve as an early warning system for problematic emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as to facilitate research on protein–protein interactions in general.
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Protein function predictions,Viral infection,Biomedicine,general,Cancer Research,Metabolic Diseases,Infectious Diseases,Molecular Medicine,Neurosciences
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