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用谐波扩散建模蛋白-配体柔性对接,提升构象预测精度。

Harmonic Torsional Diffusion for Protein-Ligand Flexible Docking

论文配图:Harmonic Torsional Diffusion for Protein-Ligand Flexible Docking
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  • 将扭转角的得分场建模为圆上的谐波势能导数,显式捕捉周期性。
  • 在PDBBind上提升配体构象准确率,比现有方法更高。
  • 适合需要高精度柔性对接的药物设计场景。

分子对接需同时推理配体构象与蛋白柔性。现有基于扩散模型的方法使用通用欧氏头预测扭转更新,忽略了角度变量的周期几何特性,尤其在柔性对接中限制明显,因配体构象与口袋侧链需协同适应形成结合复合物。本文提出Harmony,一种用于柔性蛋白-配体对接的谐波扭转扩散框架。Harmony将配体和侧链扭转得分场参数化为圆上学习到的谐波势能的导数,其噪声依赖关系通过环面变方差扩散的热半群解析给出。该构造显式建模周期性,赋予模型对旋转运动的频率感知归纳偏置。在PDBBind基准上,Harmony在配体构象准确率和口袋全原子重构上均优于近期柔性对接方法;在PoseBusters上,生成复合物的物理有效性也得到提升。对EBNA1(极性位点)和KRAS G12D(浅凹槽位点)的案例研究展示了该方法在不同结合环境下的行为。结果表明,将得分参数化与扩散过程几何对齐是提升柔性对接性能的简单有效策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Molecular docking requires reasoning jointly about ligand pose and protein flexibility. Most diffusion-based docking models predict torsional updates with generic Euclidean heads that ignore the periodic geometry of angular variables. This mismatch is especially limiting in flexible docking, where ligand conformations and pocket side chains co-adapt to form the bound complex. Here, we introduce Harmony, a harmonic torsional diffusion framework for flexible protein-ligand docking. Harmony parameterizes ligand and side-chain torsional score fields as derivatives of learned harmonic potentials on the circle, whose noise-level dependence is supplied analytically by the heat semigroup of variance-exploding diffusion on the torus. This construction makes periodicity explicit and gives the model a frequency-aware inductive bias over rotameric motion. On the PDBBind benchmark, Harmony improves ligand pose accuracy and pocket all-atom reconstruction over recent flexible docking methods. On PoseBusters, it improves the physical validity of generated complexes. Case studies on EBNA1 and KRAS G12D illustrate the method's behavior on a polar and a shallow binding site, respectively. Together, these results indicate that aligning the score parameterization with the geometry of the diffusion process is a simple and effective lever for improving flexible docking.

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