arXiv:2510.03326q-bio.BMcs.AI2025-10被引 1

首个支持非标准氨基酸的肽段从头设计框架,提升药物亲和力与可设计性。

NS-Pep: De novo Peptide Design with Non-Standard Amino Acids

  • 通过频率感知校准缓解稀有氨基酸过惩罚问题
  • 序列恢复率与结合亲和力分别提升6.23%和5.12%
  • 适合需要非标准氨基酸的药物设计研究者

含非标准氨基酸(NSAAs)的肽类药物具有更高的结合亲和力和更好的药理特性。然而,现有肽段设计方法仅限于标准氨基酸,对NSAA-aware设计探索不足。本文提出NS-Pep,一个统一框架,实现含NSAAs的肽段序列与结构联合设计。主要挑战在于NSAAs极度稀少——即使最常见者SEP占比也低于0.4%,导致严重长尾分布。为此,我们提出残基频率引导修正(RFGM),通过频率感知的logit校准缓解过惩罚,兼具理论与实证支持。此外,发现侧链建模不足限制了NSAAs的几何表达,提出渐进式侧链感知(PSP)实现粗粒度到细粒度的二面角与位置预测,并引入交互感知加权(IAW)增强口袋邻近残基权重。同时,NS-Pep自然扩展至含NSAAs的肽折叠任务,克服当前工具的重大局限。实验表明,该方法在序列恢复率与结合亲和力上分别提升6.23%和5.12%,在肽折叠成功率上优于AlphaFold3达17.76%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Peptide drugs incorporating non-standard amino acids (NSAAs) offer improved binding affinity and improved pharmacological properties. However, existing peptide design methods are limited to standard amino acids, leaving NSAA-aware design largely unexplored. We introduce NS-Pep, a unified framework for co-designing peptide sequences and structures with NSAAs. The main challenge is that NSAAs are extremely underrepresented-even the most frequent one, SEP, accounts for less than 0.4% of residues-resulting in a severe long-tailed distribution. To improve generalization to rare amino acids, we propose Residue Frequency-Guided Modification (RFGM), which mitigates over-penalization through frequency-aware logit calibration, supported by both theoretical and empirical analysis. Furthermore, we identify that insufficient side-chain modeling limits geometric representation of NSAAs. To address this, we introduce Progressive Side-chain Perception (PSP) for coarse-to-fine torsion and location prediction, and Interaction-Aware Weighting (IAW) to emphasize pocket-proximal residues. Moreover, NS-Pep generalizes naturally to the peptide folding task with NSAAs, addressing a major limitation of current tools. Experiments show that NS-Pep improves sequence recovery rate and binding affinity by 6.23% and 5.12%, respectively, and outperforms AlphaFold3 by 17.76% in peptide folding success rate.

肽段设计非标准氨基酸深度学习药物发现

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