Back

Repurposing PeTriBERT for Protein Protein Interaction Prediction with Sequence Structure Fusion

Wavreille, A.; Krouk, G.; Dumortier, B.

2026-09-30 bioinformatics
10.64898/2026.09.29.755338 bioRxiv
Show abstract

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled models to capture protein sequence and structural features. We present PeTriPPI2, a hybrid framework for protein--protein interaction (PPI) prediction that combines sequence embeddings from ESM-2 with structural representations from PeTriBERT, an encoder originally designed for inverse folding. We evaluate this sequence--structure approach on the Pinder dataset. On a test set of 2,342 protein pairs, the selected checkpoint achieves 0.898 accuracy, 0.917 precision, 0.876 recall, and 0.896 F1 score for the interacting class (AUROC 0.963). Compared with SpatialPPIv2 on the same test data, PeTriPPI2 has higher precision (0.917 versus 0.886) but lower recall (0.876 versus 0.942) and F1 score (0.896 versus 0.913). Component ablations indicate that both the sequence and structural pathways contribute to this configuration.

Matching journals

The top 5 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.