AntibodyFlow: Normalizing Flow Model for Designing Antibody Complementarity-Determining Regions

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العنوان: AntibodyFlow: Normalizing Flow Model for Designing Antibody Complementarity-Determining Regions
المؤلفون: Xu, Bohao, Wang, Yanbo, Chen, Wenyu, Shan, Shimin
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods
الوصف: Therapeutic antibodies have been extensively studied in drug discovery and development in the past decades. Antibodies are specialized protective proteins that bind to antigens in a lock-to-key manner. The binding strength/affinity between an antibody and a specific antigen is heavily determined by the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) on the antibodies. Existing machine learning methods cast in silico development of CDRs as either sequence or 3D graph (with a single chain) generation tasks and have achieved initial success. However, with CDR loops having specific geometry shapes, learning the 3D geometric structures of CDRs remains a challenge. To address this issue, we propose AntibodyFlow, a 3D flow model to design antibody CDR loops. Specifically, AntibodyFlow first constructs the distance matrix, then predicts amino acids conditioned on the distance matrix. Also, AntibodyFlow conducts constraint learning and constrained generation to ensure valid 3D structures. Experimental results indicate that AntibodyFlow outperforms the best baseline consistently with up to 16.0% relative improvement in validity rate and 24.3% relative reduction in geometric graph level error (root mean square deviation, RMSD).
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13162
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.13162
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv