用多阶段优化生成更稳定多样的环肽结构,提升虚拟筛选效率。
MuCO: Generative Peptide Cyclization Empowered by Multi-stage Conformation Optimization
- 分三步生成环肽:骨架设计、侧链填充、原子级优化,逐步细化结构。
- 在大型数据集上显著优于现有方法,兼顾稳定性与构象多样性。
- 适合药物研发中环肽分子设计,尤其关注结构多样性与计算速度。
环肽的构象建模对虚拟筛选具有理想物化与药学性质的候选肽至关重要。由于环肽常呈现多种环状构象,传统基于线性肽折叠的确定性预测模型难以准确捕捉。本文提出MuCO(多阶段构象优化)方法,通过条件生成环肽构象分布,将环化任务分解为拓扑感知骨架设计、生成式侧链填充和物理感知全原子优化三个阶段,实现从粗到精的构象生成与优化。该框架支持高效并行采样,快速探索多样且低能的构象。在大规模CPSea数据集上的实验表明,MuCO在物理稳定性、结构多样性、二级结构恢复率和计算效率方面均显著优于当前先进方法,展现出作为环肽探索与设计工具的潜力。演示代码见https://github.com/mianqiu00/MuCO。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modeling peptide cyclization is critical for the virtual screening of candidate peptides with desirable physical and pharmaceutical properties. This task is challenging because a cyclic peptide often exhibits diverse, ring-shaped conformations, which cannot be well captured by deterministic prediction models derived from linear peptide folding. In this study, we propose MuCO (Multi-stage Conformation Optimization), a generative peptide cyclization method that models the distribution of cyclic peptide conformations conditioned on the corresponding linear peptide. In principle, MuCO decouples the peptide cyclization task into three stages: topology-aware backbone design, generative side-chain packing, and physics-aware all-atom optimization, thereby generating and optimizing conformations of cyclic peptides in a coarse-to-fine manner. This multi-stage framework enables an efficient parallel sampling strategy for conformation generation and allows for rapid exploration of diverse, low-energy conformations. Experiments on the large-scale CPSea dataset demonstrate that MuCO significantly and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in physical stability, structural diversity, secondary structure recovery, and computational efficiency, making it a promising computational tool for exploring and designing cyclic peptides. The demo of the proposed method can be found at https://github.com/mianqiu00/MuCO.
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