将蛋白互作网络与通路层级结合,精准预测癌症分子特征并揭示疾病机制。
PPI-Net connects molecular protein interactions to functional processes in disease
- 构建分层图神经网络,融合蛋白互作与通路层级信息。
- 在十种癌症中平衡准确率超90%,通路层次提升12.3%性能。
- 可解释性强,发现TP53-AKT等关键致癌模块。
理解分子改变如何在生物系统中传播并驱动疾病仍是核心挑战。尽管高通量分析能全面表征肿瘤状态,但多数模型忽略结构化生物关系或缺乏跨尺度可解释性。本文提出PPI-Net,一种分层图神经网络,将蛋白-蛋白相互作用(PPI)网络与通路级表示相结合,从分子互作建模到功能过程。患者特异性分子谱被嵌入来自STRING的共享互作网络,并通过多层Reactome层级进行图注意力传播,实现基因信号向更高阶生物程序的聚合。在来自癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)的十种癌症的RNA-seq数据中,PPI-Net表现出稳健的预测性能,多个队列的平衡准确率超过90%。乳腺癌数据的对比分析显示,引入Reactome层级使平衡准确率相对仅使用PPI的模型提升6.7%;而分层多级监督相比单一顶层预测头进一步提升12.3%。结合RNA-seq与甲基化数据的多组学方法增强了模型可解释性,恢复了经典致癌模块(如TP53-AKT信号通路和应激反应通路),并揭示其汇聚于离子信号传导与细胞刺激响应等一致程序。结果表明,整合互作网络与通路层级,既能实现高精度预测,又能提供癌症生物学的机制洞察。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding how molecular alterations propagate across biological systems to drive disease remains a central challenge. Although high-throughput profiling enables comprehensive characterization of tumor states, most models neglect structured biological relationships or lack interpretability across scales. Here we present PPI-Net, a hierarchical graph neural network that integrates protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks with pathway-level representations to model disease from molecular interactions to functional processes. Patient-specific molecular profiles are embedded within a shared interaction network from STRING and propagated through a multi-layer Reactome hierarchy using graph attention, enabling aggregation of gene-level signals into higher-order biological programs. Across RNA-seq data from ten cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas, PPI-Net achieves robust predictive performance, with balanced accuracy exceeding 90% in multiple cohorts. Comparative analysis on RNA-Seq data from breast cancer demonstrated that PPI-Net's integration of the Reactome hierarchy improved balanced accuracy by 6.7% relative to a PPI-only model, while hierarchical multi-level supervision improved balanced accuracy by 12.3% relative to using only a single top-level prediction head. Applying a multi-omics approach using RNA-seq and methylation data improves model interpretation, recovering canonical oncogenic modules, including TP53-AKT signaling and stress response pathways, while revealing convergence onto coherent programs such as ion signaling and cellular responses to stimuli. These results demonstrate that integrating interaction networks with pathway hierarchies enables accurate prediction while providing mechanistic insight into cancer biology.
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