Phosphorylation of specific substrates by protein kinases is a key control mechanism for vital cell-fate decisions and other cellular processes. However, discovering specific kinase-substrate relationships is time-consuming and often rather serendipitous. Computational predictions alleviate these challenges, but the current approaches suffer from limitations like restricted kinome coverage and inaccuracy. They also typically utilise only local features without reflecting broader interaction context. To address these limitations, we have developed an alternative predictive model. It uses statistical relational learning on top of phosphorylation networks interpreted as knowledge graphs, a simple yet robust model for representing networked knowledge. Compared to a representative selection of six existing systems, our model has the highest kinome coverage and produces biologically valid high-confidence predictions not possible with the other tools. Specifically, we have experimentally validated predictions of previously unknown phosphorylations by the LATS1, AKT1, PKA and MST2 kinases in human. Thus, our tool is useful for focusing phosphoproteomic experiments, and facilitates the discovery of new phosphorylation reactions. Our model can be accessed publicly via an easy-to-use web interface (LinkPhinder).

Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland

Data Science Institute National University of Ireland Galway Ireland

Department of Oncology Universidad de Navarra Pamplona Spain

Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Fujitsu Ireland Ltd Co Dublin Ireland

School of Medicine University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland

Systems Biology Ireland University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland

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