arXiv:2606.14159cs.LGq-bio.BM2026-06

用曲率建模蛋白-配体结合,提升亲和力预测精度与可解释性。

Curvature-Guided Geometric Representation for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

论文配图:Curvature-Guided Geometric Representation for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
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  • 基于里奇曲率构建分层几何表示,捕捉局部相互作用紧密度。
  • 通过最优传输对齐异构域分子簇,实现全局一致的交互匹配。
  • 在多个基准测试中表现更优,适合药物发现中的亲和力预测任务。

蛋白-配体结合亲和力(PLA)预测在药物发现中至关重要。尽管机器学习方法取得显著进展,现有方法仍难以同时刻画局部几何结构与跨分子的全局协调相互作用,限制了对复杂结合机制的建模能力。本文提出RicciBind,一种融合曲率引导的分层结构学习与基于最优传输(OT)的跨域对齐的几何表示框架。具体而言,RicciBind利用里奇曲率捕捉分子结构内的局部相互作用紧密度,增强结构感知,并将原子相互作用组织为曲率感知的分层表示。基于最优传输的聚类匹配机制在几何约束下对齐蛋白质与配体聚类,实现跨异构域的一致对应关系,揭示超越局部邻域的高阶相互作用模式。通过耦合曲率引导的结构编码与OT驱动的跨域对齐,RicciBind有效建模复杂交互语义,在多个PLA基准测试与虚拟筛选任务中显著提升预测精度与泛化能力。消融实验进一步验证了里奇曲率在增强分子相互作用表征中的关键作用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) prediction is critical in drug discovery. Despite the notable advancements in machine learning-based approaches, existing methods struggle to jointly characterize local geometric organization and globally coordinated cross-molecular interactions, limiting their ability to model complex binding mechanisms. Here, we propose RicciBind, a geometric representation framework that integrates curvature-guided hierarchical structure learning with optimal transport (OT)-based cross-domain alignment to model molecular interactions. Specifically, RicciBind leverages Ricci curvature to capture local interaction tightness within molecular structures, enhancing structural awareness and organizing atomic interactions into curvature-aware hierarchical representations. An OT-based cluster matching mechanism then aligns protein and ligand clusters across heterogeneous domains under geometric constraints, enabling globally consistent correspondences and revealing higher-order interaction patterns beyond local neighborhoods. By coupling curvature-guided structure encoding with OT-driven cross-domain alignment, RicciBind effectively models complex interaction semantics and substantially improves both the accuracy and interpretability of binding affinity prediction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RicciBind achieved superior predictive performance and generalization across PLA benchmarks and virtual screening tasks. Ablation studies further confirmed the essential role of Ricci curvature in enhancing molecular interaction representations.

蛋白-配体几何表示最优传输亲和力预测

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