用物理梯度引导生成高亲和力的罕见病靶点抑制剂。
KinetiDiff: Docking-Guided Diffusion for De Novo ACVR1 Inhibitor Design in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

- 在扩散去噪过程中注入分子对接梯度,指导分子生成。
- 最优候选物亲和力提升19.2%,100个优选分子均优于参考值。
- 生成分子兼具可合成性与多样性,适合罕见病药物研发。
我们提出KinetiDiff,一种基于结构的从头设计激酶抑制剂的框架,结合几何完整扩散模型与实时AutoDock Vina梯度引导。通过将基于物理的对接梯度注入扩散去噪循环,该框架引导分子生成趋向于ACVR1(ALK2)的高亲和力构象,这是进行性骨化纤维发育不良症的致病激酶。从10,000个扩散样本中生成了9,997个有效分子。最佳候选物达到-11.05 kcal/mol(pKd = 8.10),较晶体结构参考值提升19.2%。前100名候选物全部超过参考值,且100%符合Lipinski规则,平均合成可及性为2.67,内部多样性达0.790。对四种引导策略——Vina-Direct(物理)、HNN-Denovo(神经代理)、多目标优化与无引导——的系统消融分析表明,实时对接引导在所有指标上表现最优。评估HNN-Denovo作为计算高效的替代方案(每步提速60倍),发现其存在领域不匹配问题(与Vina相关性r=0.224),解释了其性能较差。这些结果确立了梯度引导的几何扩散是针对罕见病激酶靶点生成强效、可合成抑制剂的可行方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present KinetiDiff, a structure-based framework for de novo kinase inhibitor design that integrates a Geometry-Complete Diffusion Model with real-time AutoDock Vina gradient guidance. By injecting physics-based docking gradients into the diffusion denoising loop, KinetiDiff steers molecule generation toward high-affinity conformations for ACVR1 (ALK2), the causative kinase in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. From 10,000 diffusion samples, the framework produced 9,997 valid molecules. The best candidate achieved $-11.05$ kcal/mol (pKd = 8.10), a 19.2% improvement over the crystallographic reference. The top 100 candidates all exceed the reference, with 100% Lipinski compliance, median synthetic accessibility of 2.67, and internal diversity of 0.790. Systematic ablation across four guidance strategies--Vina-Direct (physics), HNN-Denovo (neural proxy), multi-objective, and unguided--demonstrates that real-time docking guidance dominates on all metrics. We evaluate HNN-Denovo as a computationally efficient alternative (60-fold speedup per step), revealing a domain-mismatch limitation (r = 0.224 correlation with Vina) that explains its inferior performance. These results establish gradient-guided geometric diffusion as a practical approach for generating potent, synthetically accessible inhibitors against rare-disease kinase targets.
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