Yongtao Qian

Mr. Yongtao Qian


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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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16 February 2023 in Pharmaceutics
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YQYongtao Qian
Yongtao Qian
WNWanxing Ni
Wanxing Ni
XXXingxing Xianyu
Xingxing Xianyu
LTLiang Tao
Liang Tao
QWQin Wang
Qin Wang
Drug–targeted therapies are promising approaches to treating tumors, and research on receptor–ligand interactions for discovering high-affinity targeted drugs has been accelerating drug development. This study presents a mechanism-driven deep learning-based computational model to learn double drug sequences, protein sequences, and drug graphs to project drug–target affinities (DTAs), which was termed the DoubleSG-DTA. We deployed lightweight graph isomorphism networks to aggregate drug graph representations and discriminate between molecular structures, and stacked multilayer squeeze-and-excitation networks to selectively enhance spatial features of drug and protein sequences. What is more, cross-multi-head attentions were constructed to further model the non-covalent molecular docking behavior. The multiple cross-validation experimental evaluations on various datasets indicated that DoubleSG-DTA consistently outperformed all previously reported works. To showcase the value of DoubleSG-DTA, we applied it to generate promising hit compounds of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer harboring EGFRT790M mutation from natural products, which were consistent with reported laboratory studies. Afterward, we further investigated the interpretability of the graph-based “black box” model and highlighted the active structures that contributed the most. DoubleSG-DTA thus provides a powerful and interpretable framework that extrapolates for potential chemicals to modulate the systemic response to disease.