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ArticleNature communications2024

Pretrainable geometric graph neural network for antibody affinity maturation.

Huiyu Cai, Zuobai Zhang, Mingkai Wang, Bozitao Zhong, Quanxiao Li, Yuxuan Zhong, Yanling Wu, Tianlei Ying, Jian Tang

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Huiyu Cai *BioGeometry, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8506-537X
Zuobai Zhang *Mila-Québec AI Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Mingkai Wang *Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Synthetic Immunology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5761-3578
Bozitao Zhong *Mila-Québec AI Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9363-6099
Quanxiao LiShanghai Engineering Research Center for Synthetic Immunology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yuxuan ZhongShanghai Engineering Research Center for Synthetic Immunology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yanling WuShanghai Engineering Research Center for Synthetic Immunology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. yanlingwu@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-8780-8640
Tianlei YingShanghai Engineering Research Center for Synthetic Immunology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. tlying@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-9597-2843
Jian TangBioGeometry, Beijing, China. tangjian@biogeom.com.ORCID 0009-0002-8083-340X

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2019YFA0904400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing the binding affinity of an antibody to its target antigen is a crucial task in antibody therapeutics development. This paper presents a pretrainable geometric graph neural network, GearBind, and explores its potential in in silico affinity maturation. Leveraging multi-relational graph construction, multi-level geometric message passing and contrastive pretraining on mass-scale, unlabeled protein structural data, GearBind outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches on SKEMPI and an independent test set. A powerful ensemble model based on GearBind is then derived and used to successfully enhance the binding of two antibodies with distinct formats and target antigens. ELISA EC

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Antibody AffinityNeural Networks, ComputerAntibodiesAntigensComputer SimulationDeep LearningEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingAntibodiesAntigens

Identifiers

PMID39242604
PMCPMC11379722

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