新框架动态设计抗体,兼顾结合与特异性
Relation-Aware Equivariant Graph Networks for Epitope-Unknown Antibody Design and Specificity Optimization
- 引入关系感知图网络,融合节点、边和关系特征建模复杂抗体结构
- 在多种抗体类型和长度上实现更优的序列生成与结构优化
- 提出新评估指标和增强约束,提升抗体结合特异性
抗体是呈Y形的蛋白质,通过结合特定抗原保护机体,其结合主要由抗体中的互补决定区(CDRs)决定。尽管在CDR设计方面已取得进展,现有计算方法仍面临三大挑战:1)长序列复杂CDRs建模能力不足,缺乏充分上下文信息;2)依赖预设抗原表位及其与目标抗体的静态相互作用;3)优化过程中忽视特异性,导致产生非特异性抗体。本文考虑多种节点特征、边特征及边间关系,引入更多上下文与几何信息。提出新型关系感知抗体设计框架RAAD,可动态建模抗原-抗体相互作用,协同设计抗原特异性CDRs的序列与结构。此外,设计新评估指标以更准确衡量抗体特异性,并提出对比特异性增强约束,优化抗体特异性。大量实验表明,RAAD在不同CDR类型、序列长度、预训练策略和输入场景下均展现出卓越的抗体建模、生成与优化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins that protect the host by binding to specific antigens, and their binding is mainly determined by the Complementary Determining Regions (CDRs) in the antibody. Despite the great progress made in CDR design, existing computational methods still encounter several challenges: 1) poor capability of modeling complex CDRs with long sequences due to insufficient contextual information; 2) conditioned on pre-given antigenic epitopes and their static interaction with the target antibody; 3) neglect of specificity during antibody optimization leads to non-specific antibodies. In this paper, we take into account a variety of node features, edge features, and edge relations to include more contextual and geometric information. We propose a novel Relation-Aware Antibody Design (RAAD) framework, which dynamically models antigen-antibody interactions for co-designing the sequences and structures of antigen-specific CDRs. Furthermore, we propose a new evaluation metric to better measure antibody specificity and develop a contrasting specificity-enhancing constraint to optimize the specificity of antibodies. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the superior capability of RAAD in terms of antibody modeling, generation, and optimization across different CDR types, sequence lengths, pre-training strategies, and input contexts.
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