用自然语言指令设计能结合特定分子的蛋白质,突破数据瓶颈。
InstructPro: Natural Language Guided Ligand-Binding Protein Design
- 用自然语言描述和分子式指导蛋白质生成,实现功能定制化设计。
- 在已见分子上达0.918的ipTM和-8.764亲和力,零样本仍保持0.869和-6.713。
- 生成蛋白具有高结合自由能(-25.8 kcal/mol)和5.82个氢键,适合药物研发。
从头设计具备特定功能的配体结合蛋白对生物技术和分子医学至关重要,但现有AI方法受限于蛋白-配体复合物数据稀缺。为突破这一数据瓶颈,我们利用大量描述蛋白-配体相互作用的自然语言文本。本文提出InstructPro,一类基于自然语言指令和配体分子式生成蛋白质序列的生成模型。为支持训练与评估,我们构建了包含960万条(功能描述, 配体, 蛋白质)三元组的InstructProBench数据集。训练得到两个模型变体——InstructPro-1B和InstructPro-3B,显著优于强基线。InstructPro-1B在已见配体上达到AlphaFold3 ipTM 0.918、结合亲和力-8.764,零样本设置下仍保持0.869和-6.713,新颖性得分分别为70.1%和68.8%,表明其泛化能力。此外,模型生成的结合自由能达-20.9 kcal/mol,平均含5.82个分子间氢键,验证其高亲和力设计能力。扩大至InstructPro-3B后,零样本ipTM提升至0.882,亲和力达-6.797,结合自由能增至-25.8 kcal/mol,体现模型容量增长带来的性能提升。结果表明,自然语言引导的生成模型可有效缓解传统结构方法的数据瓶颈,极大拓展从头蛋白设计的应用范围。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The de novo design of ligand-binding proteins with tailored functions is essential for advancing biotechnology and molecular medicine, yet existing AI approaches are limited by scarce protein-ligand complex data. To circumvent this data bottleneck, we leverage the abundant natural language descriptions characterizing protein-ligand interactions. Here, we introduce InstructPro, a family of generative models that design proteins following the guidance of natural language instructions and ligand formulas. InstructPro produces protein sequences consistent with specified function descriptions and ligand targets. To enable training and evaluation, we develop InstructProBench, a large-scale dataset of 9.6 million (function description, ligand, protein) triples. We train two model variants -- InstructPro-1B and InstructPro-3B -- that substantially outperform strong baselines. InstructPro-1B achieves an AlphaFold3 ipTM of 0.918 and a binding affinity of -8.764 on seen ligands, while maintaining robust performance in a zero-shot setting with scores of 0.869 and -6.713, respectively. These results are accompanied by novelty scores of 70.1% and 68.8%, underscoring the model's ability to generalize beyond the training set. Furthermore, the model yields a superior binding free energy of -20.9 kcal/mol and an average of 5.82 intermolecular hydrogen bonds, validating its proficiency in designing high-affinity ligand-binding proteins. Notably, scaling to InstructPro-3B further improves the zero-shot ipTM to 0.882, binding affinity to -6.797, and binding free energy to -25.8 kcal/mol, demonstrating clear performance gains associated with increased model capacity. These findings highlight the power of natural language-guided generative models to mitigate the data bottlenecks in traditional structure-based methods, significantly broadening the scope of de novo protein design.
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