The structure-preserving spectral graph neural network for dual kinase inhibitors and synergy scoring in gastric cancer
The therapeutic targeting of kinase signaling pathways represents a pivotal strategy in gastric cancer, yet the rational design of single agents capable of dual-kinase inhibition remains a challenge in precision oncology. Here, we develop the DuoKinaseNet, a dual-task spectral graph neural network that integrates global topological information from a heterogeneous biomedical graph to enable structure-preserving prediction of drug-kinase interactions. The core innovation of our model is the Structure-Preserving Spectral Expansion (SPSE) module, which injects global graph topology from a biomedical knowledge graph into the learning process via spectral coordinates and diffusion-distance biased attention. Evaluated on a comprehensive dataset curated from DrugBank, DuoKinaseNet achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly on the challenging "unseen protein" benchmark, with an AUC-ROC of 0.903 for HER2 and 0.895 for FGFR2b. It significantly outperforms a wide range of baseline models, including 3D-aware methods and single-task variants, empirically validating the synergistic benefits of the dual-task learning and SPSE frameworks.
Authors
- Longgang Wang
- Yujia Chen
- Yang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4201-3702)
- C. Z. Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6507-0496)
- Yuanlin Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-1730)
- Yanpeng Xing
Institutions
- ITMO University (RU)
- Jilin University (CN)
- Shandong Tumor Hospital (CN)
- First Hospital of Jilin University (CN)
- Shandong First Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Digital Medicine
- Published
- 2025-12-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-02240-7
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.01
Funders
- People's Government of Jilin Province
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
- Education Department of Jilin Province