Learning Protein Structure-Function Relationships through Knowledge-guided Representation Decomposition
Proteins encode diverse functions within complex three-dimensional structures, yet most deep learning representations remain highly entangled, obscuring the biophysical signals that underlie function. Here we introduce ProtDiS, a knowledge-guided framework that decomposes pretrained protein micro-environment embeddings into biologically grounded and task-relevant dimensions. Inspired by the information bottleneck principle, ProtDiS learns representations that balance informativeness and compression, yielding structural features that are more specific, independent, and information-efficient, and achieving consistent improvements across twelve downstream tasks, with the largest gains under structure-based splits. Protein- and residue-level analyses further show that ProtDiS differentiates proteins with similar folds but divergent functions and captures fine-grained biophysical signals critical. These findings suggest that knowledge-guided decomposition provides a general and interpretable approach for structuring latent spaces in protein structural modeling. The source code and implementation details are publicly available at https://github.com/AI-HPC-Research-Team/ProtDiS.
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