AlloPool: a graph neural network framework that infers protein allostery from molecular dynamics simulations
The study presents AlloPool, a graph neural network framework that combines temporal attention with iterative edge pooling to learn minimal, time-evolving residue interaction networks from equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics trajectories, reconstructing trajectories at sub-angstrom RMSD across Pin1, the GAIN mechanosensor domain, dopamine D2 and beta-1 adrenergic receptors, the SdrG adhesin, PDZ3, and the Engrailed homeodomain, and using those networks to map allosteric pathways, predict ligand pharmacology, mechanical loading states, and mutation effects.