arXiv:2605.31296q-bio.BMcs.LG2026-05被引 2

一次生成优化mRNA序列,提升蛋白表达与稳定性。

mRNAutilus: Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Generation of mRNA with Optimized Therapeutic Properties

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  • 用扩散模型联合优化编码区与非翻译区序列。
  • 零样本设计使荧光蛋白表达超野生型400倍。
  • 适合疫苗、基因治疗等需要高效mRNA的应用。

治疗性mRNA设计需协调全长转录本中多个相互关联的序列特征,包括密码子使用、非翻译区(UTRs)及其耦合关系,共同决定稳定性、翻译效率和蛋白表达量。本文提出mRNAutilus框架,通过解卷积轨迹与引导潜在空间更新,直接从序列生成兼具多目标优化的mRNA。该方法结合基于百万级全长mRNA训练的掩码离散扩散模型与蒙特卡洛树引导策略,利用轻量回归器预测半衰期、翻译效率和蛋白丰度。与以往分步设计编码区与UTR或依赖后处理组装筛选的方法不同,mRNAutilus在单一过程中生成完整转录本,并在多个功能目标间实现帕累托最优。在多种靶标上,零样本生成的P. pyralis荧光素酶mRNA表达量超过野生型400倍,优于商业及机器学习设计基线,包括零样本生成方法;零样本SARS-CoV-2 Spike mRNA超越临床使用与商业构建体,达到甚至超过实验室优化设计的性能并具备更好持久性。进一步验证其在治疗场景中的通用性,如先导编辑(PEMax)与可编程蛋白组调控,mRNAutilus设计的构建体显著提升肽引导E3连接酶(uAbs)对β-catenin的降解表达。结果表明,该方法为多样化生物应用提供了一种基于序列的多目标mRNA生成范式。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Therapeutic mRNA design requires coordinating multiple interacting sequence features across the full transcript, where codon usage, untranslated regions (UTRs), and their coupling jointly determine stability, translation efficiency, and protein expression. Here, we present mRNA generation via unrolled trajectories and informed latent updates (mRNAutilus), a framework for simultaneous codon optimization and de novo UTR design directly from sequence. mRNAutilus combines a masked discrete diffusion model trained on millions of full-length mRNAs with Monte Carlo Tree Guidance to generate Pareto-efficient sequences under multiple functional objectives, using lightweight regressors over model embeddings to predict half-life, translation efficiency, and protein abundance. Unlike recent methods that design coding sequences and UTRs separately or rely on post hoc assembly and screening, mRNAutilus generates complete transcripts in a single process optimized across properties. Across diverse targets, zero-shot mRNAs encoding P. pyralis luciferase achieve over 400-fold higher expression than wild-type and outperform commercial and machine learning-designed baselines, including zero-shot generative approaches. Zero-shot SARS-CoV-2 Spike mRNAs exceed clinically used and commercial constructs and match or surpass lab-optimized designs with improved durability. We further demonstrate generality in therapeutic settings, including prime editing (PEMax) and programmable proteome modulation, where mRNAutilus-designed constructs enhance expression of peptide-guided E3 ligases (uAbs) for beta-catenin degradation. These results establish a sequence-based, multi-objective framework for generating functional mRNAs tailored to diverse biological applications.

mRNA设计生成模型多目标优化生物合成

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