arXiv:2511.10244cs.AI2025-11被引 2

用图注意力网络融合序列与结构信息,提升肽类预测的准确性和可解释性。

PepTriX: A Framework for Explainable Peptide Analysis through Protein Language Models

  • 结合1D序列与3D结构特征,通过对比学习和跨模态注意力增强模型
  • 在多个肽分类任务中表现优异,且预测结果可解释
  • 适合生物医学研究者用于理解肽的结构-功能关系

肽分类任务(如毒性预测、HIV抑制)是生物信息学与药物发现的基础。传统方法依赖手工设计的一维肽序列编码,泛化能力有限。近期蛋白质语言模型(PLMs)如ESM-2和ESMFold表现出强大预测性能,但存在两大挑战:微调计算成本高,复杂隐表示难以解释;且多数框架针对特定任务设计,缺乏通用性。这些限制阻碍了模型预测与生物相关基序及结构特性之间的关联。为此,我们提出PepTriX,一种新型框架,通过图注意力网络融合一维序列嵌入与三维结构特征,并引入对比学习和跨模态共注意力机制。PepTriX能自动适应多种数据集,生成任务特异的肽向量,同时保持生物学合理性。经领域专家评估,PepTriX在多个肽分类任务中表现卓越,并揭示驱动预测的关键结构与生物物理基序。因此,PepTriX兼具预测鲁棒性与可解释验证,弥合了高性能肽级模型与肽研究领域理解之间的鸿沟。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Peptide classification tasks, such as predicting toxicity and HIV inhibition, are fundamental to bioinformatics and drug discovery. Traditional approaches rely heavily on handcrafted encodings of one-dimensional (1D) peptide sequences, which can limit generalizability across tasks and datasets. Recently, protein language models (PLMs), such as ESM-2 and ESMFold, have demonstrated strong predictive performance. However, they face two critical challenges. First, fine-tuning is computationally costly. Second, their complex latent representations hinder interpretability for domain experts. Additionally, many frameworks have been developed for specific types of peptide classification, lacking generalization. These limitations restrict the ability to connect model predictions to biologically relevant motifs and structural properties. To address these limitations, we present PepTriX, a novel framework that integrates one dimensional (1D) sequence embeddings and three-dimensional (3D) structural features via a graph attention network enhanced with contrastive training and cross-modal co-attention. PepTriX automatically adapts to diverse datasets, producing task-specific peptide vectors while retaining biological plausibility. After evaluation by domain experts, we found that PepTriX performs remarkably well across multiple peptide classification tasks and provides interpretable insights into the structural and biophysical motifs that drive predictions. Thus, PepTriX offers both predictive robustness and interpretable validation, bridging the gap between performance-driven peptide-level models (PLMs) and domain-level understanding in peptide research.

肽分析可解释性语言模型结构预测

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