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ArticleBioinformatics advances2026

The power and limits of predicting inter-protein exon-exon interactions using protein 3D structures.

Jeanine Liebold, Aylin Del Moral-Morales, Karen Manalastas-Cantos, Olga Tsoy, Stefan Kurtz, Jan Baumbach, Khalique Newaz

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Jeanine LieboldInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0797-1806
Aylin Del Moral-MoralesInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-628X
Karen Manalastas-CantosInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5483-9616
Olga TsoyInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-2080
Stefan KurtzCenter for Bioinformatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5783-0054
Jan BaumbachInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0282-0462
Khalique NewazInstitute for Computational Systems Biomedicine, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1192-8360

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Abstract

Motivation: Alternative splicing (AS) effects on cellular functions can be captured by studying changes in the underlying protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Because AS results in the gain or loss of exons, existing methods for predicting AS-related PPI changes utilize known inter-protein exon-exon interactions (EEIs), which cover <0.5% of known human PPIs. Hence, there is a need to extend the limited EEI knowledge to advance the functional understanding of AS. Here, we explore whether existing 3-dimensional (3D) protein structure-based computational PPI interface prediction (PPIIP) methods, originally designed to predict inter-protein residue-residue interactions (RRIs), can be utilized to predict EEIs. Results: We evaluate the PPIIP methods for the RRI- and EEI-prediction tasks using all known experimentally determined 3D structures of human protein heterodimers from the Protein Data Bank available at the time of data collection. From these heterodimers, we determined Availability and implementation: Data and source code are available at https://github.com/lieboldj/EEIpred.

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