arXiv:2602.05479cs.AI2026-02中稿 · BIBM 2025

用基团层次建模药物-蛋白互作,提升预测准确率与可解释性。

Phi-Former: A Pairwise Hierarchical Approach for Compound-Protein Interactions Prediction

  • 分原子、基团、原子-基团三层次建模互作关系
  • 在多个数据集上优于现有方法,关键基团识别准确率更高
  • 结果可解释,适合指导新药设计与精准医疗

药物发现耗时长、成本高,需多年投入。预测化合物-蛋白相互作用(CPI)是关键环节,有助于识别候选药物与靶蛋白的分子互作。当前深度学习方法虽在原子层面建模取得进展,但未充分反映化学现实:分子片段(基团或功能基团)通常是生物识别与结合的基本单位。本文提出Phi-Former,一种基于配对层级的交互表示学习方法,通过分层次表征化合物与蛋白质,并采用配对预训练框架,在原子-原子、基团-基团、原子-基团三个层级系统建模互作,更贴合生物系统的识别机制。设计了层内与层间学习管道,使不同层级互为补充。实验表明,Phi-Former在多项CPI任务中表现优异;案例分析显示,模型能准确识别激活的关键原子或基团,提供可解释性推断,为理性药物设计和精准医疗提供支持。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Drug discovery remains time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive, often requiring years and substantial investment per drug candidate. Predicting compound-protein interactions (CPIs) is a critical component in this process, enabling the identification of molecular interactions between drug candidates and target proteins. Recent deep learning methods have successfully modeled CPIs at the atomic level, achieving improved efficiency and accuracy over traditional energy-based approaches. However, these models do not always align with chemical realities, as molecular fragments (motifs or functional groups) typically serve as the primary units of biological recognition and binding. In this paper, we propose Phi-former, a pairwise hierarchical interaction representation learning method that addresses this gap by incorporating the biological role of motifs in CPIs. Phi-former represents compounds and proteins hierarchically and employs a pairwise pre-training framework to model interactions systematically across atom-atom, motif-motif, and atom-motif levels, reflecting how biological systems recognize molecular partners. We design intra-level and inter-level learning pipelines that make different interaction levels mutually beneficial. Experimental results demonstrate that Phi-former achieves superior performance on CPI-related tasks. A case study shows that our method accurately identifies specific atoms or motifs activated in CPIs, providing interpretable model explanations. These insights may guide rational drug design and support precision medicine applications.

药物发现互作预测可解释性基团建模

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