arXiv:2605.15243cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

根据基因表达变化设计药物,让分子生成更贴近真实疗效。

Reading the Cell, Designing the Cure: Perturbation-Conditioned Molecular Diffusion for Function-Oriented Drug Design

论文配图:Reading the Cell, Designing the Cure: Perturbation-Conditioned Molecular Diffusion for Function-Oriented Drug Design
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  • 用多尺度扩散模型融合基因表达变化与化学结构
  • 在多个数据集上实现更高结构质量与功能一致性
  • 适合靶点未知或疾病表型复杂的药物发现场景

当可靠靶点结构无法大规模获取,或表型由通路失调引起时,转录组扰动可作为药物作用的系统级功能读出。本文将基于转录组的药物设计(TBDD)形式化为一个生成逆问题:根据期望的转录组状态转换设计药物分子。我们分析了该任务固有的病态性质,其复杂性源于生物学与化学之间的深层领域差异,以及转录组信号的稀疏性。为此,我们提出CellUreEngine( hemodel{}),一种多分辨率转录组引导的扩散框架。该模型包含专用的转录组扰动功能特征提取器(TFE),能够(1)从扰动前后的转录组状态中提炼功能导向的扰动嵌入;(2)将这些特征对齐至双重化学视图以弥合跨模态鸿沟;(3)进行异质性感知聚合,从噪声转录组数据中提取鲁棒的状态特异性信号。在标准基准和严格的分布外评估协议下, hemodel{}在结构质量和功能一致性方面均持续优于强基线。此外,通过零样本基因抑制剂设计任务验证了其实际应用价值,突显了表型驱动生成发现的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

When reliable target structures are unavailable at scale or phenotypes arise from dysregulated pathways, transcriptomic perturbations provide a system-level functional readout for drug action. In this work, we formalize \emph{Transcriptome-based Drug Design (TBDD)} as a generative inverse problem: designing drug molecules conditioned on desired transcriptomic state transitions. We analyze the inherently ill-posed nature of this task, which is further complicated by the profound domain gap between biology and chemistry and by the sparsity of transcriptomic signals. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{\themodel{}} (A \textbf{C}ell\textbf{U}lar \textbf{R}esponse \textbf{E}ngine), a multi-resolution transcriptome-guided diffusion framework. \themodel{} features a specialized \textbf{Transcriptome Perturbation Functional Feature Extractor (TFE)} that (1) distills function-oriented perturbation embeddings from pre/post states, (2) aligns these signatures to dual chemical views to bridge the cross-modal gap, and (3) performs heterogeneity-aware aggregation to extract robust state-specific signals from noisy transcriptomic data. Extensive evaluations on both standard benchmarks and rigorous out-of-distribution protocols demonstrate that \themodel{} consistently outperforms strong baselines in structural quality and functional consistency. Furthermore, we validate its practical utility via a zero-shot gene-inhibitor design task, highlighting the potential of phenotype-driven generative discovery.

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