The structure-preserving spectral graph neural network for dual kinase inhibitors and synergy scoring in gastric cancer.
Yang Zhang, Chunhong Yuan, Longgang Wang, Yujia Chen, Yanpeng Xing, Yuanlin Sun
Abstract
Open AccessThe 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.