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LSA-DDI: learning stereochemistry-aware drug interactions via 3D feature fusion and contrastive cross-attention

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Wang, Shanshan, Yang, Chen, Chen, Lirong·2025·International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Accurate prediction of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is essential for ensuring medication safety and optimizing combination-therapy strategies. However, existing DDI models face limitations in handling interactions related to stereochemistry and precisely locating drug interaction sites. These limitations reduce the prediction accuracy for conformation-dependent interactions and the interpretability of molecular mechanisms, potentially posing risks to clinical safety. To address these challenges, we introduce LSA-DDI, a Spatial-Contrastive-Attention-Based Drug-Drug Interaction framework. Our 3D feature extraction method captures the spatial structure of molecules through three features-coordinates, distances, and angles-and fuses them to enhance the model of molecular spatial structures. Concurrently, we design and implement a Dynamic Feature Exchange (DFE) mechanism that dynamically regulates the flow of information across modalities via an attention mechanism, achieving bidirectional enhancement and semantic alignment of 2D topological and 3D spatial structure features. Additionally, we incorporate a dynamic temperature-regulated multiscale contrastive learning framework that effectively aligns multiscale features and enhances the model's generalizability. Experiments conducted on public drug databases under both warm-start and cold-start scenarios demonstrated that LSA-DDI achieved competitive performance, with consistent improvements over existing methods.

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Authors
Wang, S., Yang, C., & Chen, L.
Affiliations
  • Yan'an University (CN)
  • College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
  • Inner Mongolia University (CN)
Corresponding author
Chen, Lirong
Venue
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2025-07-16
Volume
26
Issue
14
Pages
6799
ISSN
1422-0067 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4412725958
Cited by
65
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 61 · 2025: 4
FWCI
33.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation Project “Research on Cross-border E-commerce Product ‘Localization’ Promotion Based on Large Language Models” (2025MS07016, YAU202507636)
  • the research project “Social Network Public Ideology Mining and Prediction Research” (2025MS07016, YAU202507636)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Keywords
drug-drug interactions, stereochemistry, 3D molecular structure, cross-attention, contrastive learning, interaction site prediction, 2D-3D feature fusion, drug safety
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Drug Interactions, Humans, Stereoisomerism

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