A variational expectation-maximization framework for balanced multi-scale learning of protein and drug interactions
File version
Version of Record (VoR)
Author(s)
Xie, J
Yuan, Q
Liu, D
Wang, Z
Lu, Y
Zheng, S
Yang, Y
Griffith University Author(s)
Primary Supervisor
Other Supervisors
Editor(s)
Date
Size
File type(s)
Location
Abstract
Protein functions are characterized by interactions with proteins, drugs, and other biomolecules. Understanding these interactions is essential for deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying biological processes and developing new therapeutic strategies. Current computational methods mostly predict interactions based on either molecular network or structural information, without integrating them within a unified multi-scale framework. While a few multi-view learning methods are devoted to fusing the multi-scale information, these methods tend to rely intensively on a single scale and under-fitting the others, likely attributed to the imbalanced nature and inherent greediness of multi-scale learning. To alleviate the optimization imbalance, we present MUSE, a multi-scale representation learning framework based on a variant expectation maximization to optimize different scales in an alternating procedure over multiple iterations. This strategy efficiently fuses multi-scale information between atomic structure and molecular network scale through mutual supervision and iterative optimization. MUSE outperforms the current state-of-the-art models not only in molecular interaction (protein-protein, drug-protein, and drug-drug) tasks but also in protein interface prediction at the atomic structure scale. More importantly, the multi-scale learning framework shows potential for extension to other scales of computational drug discovery.
Journal Title
Nature Communications
Conference Title
Book Title
Edition
Volume
15
Issue
Thesis Type
Degree Program
School
Publisher link
Patent number
Funder(s)
Grant identifier(s)
Rights Statement
Rights Statement
© The Author(s) 2024. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Item Access Status
Note
Access the data
Related item(s)
Subject
Proteomics and metabolomics
Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
Persistent link to this record
Citation
Rao, J; Xie, J; Yuan, Q; Liu, D; Wang, Z; Lu, Y; Zheng, S; Yang, Y, A variational expectation-maximization framework for balanced multi-scale learning of protein and drug interactions, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, pp. 4476