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In this work, we presented DeepGNHV, an end-to-end framework that integrated a pretrained protein language model with structural features derived from AlphaFold2 and leveraged graph attention networks to predict human-virus PPIs. In comparison to other state-of-the-art approaches, DeepGNHV exhibited superior predictive performance, especially when applied to viral proteins absent from the training process, indicating its strong generalization capability for detecting newly emerging virus-related PPIs. We further demonstrated DeepGNHV\u2019s robustness across diverse perturbations and its practical application under high-confidence thresholds. Additionally, we conducted extensive predictions of human-HPV PPIs, which were supported by multiple lines of evidence and identified several host factors that specifically interact with high-risk HPV. To further explore the biological significance of DeepGNHV, we provided a case study to pinpoint specific residues that play critical roles in facilitating the corresponding PPIs. 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