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Main Authors: Li, Xinze, Wang, Penglei, Fu, Tianfan, Gao, Wenhao, Li, Chengtao, Shi, Leilei, Liu, Junhong
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02003
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author Li, Xinze
Wang, Penglei
Fu, Tianfan
Gao, Wenhao
Li, Chengtao
Shi, Leilei
Liu, Junhong
author_facet Li, Xinze
Wang, Penglei
Fu, Tianfan
Gao, Wenhao
Li, Chengtao
Shi, Leilei
Liu, Junhong
contents Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate molecules that can bind tightly to the target protein, is an essential problem in drug discovery, and previous approaches have achieved initial success. However, most existing methods still suffer from invalid local structure or unrealistic conformation issues, which are mainly due to the poor leaning of bond angles or torsional angles. To alleviate these problems, we propose AUTODIFF, a diffusion-based fragment-wise autoregressive generation model. Specifically, we design a novel molecule assembly strategy named conformal motif that preserves the conformation of local structures of molecules first, then we encode the interaction of the protein-ligand complex with an SE(3)-equivariant convolutional network and generate molecules motif-by-motif with diffusion modeling. In addition, we also improve the evaluation framework of SBDD by constraining the molecular weights of the generated molecules in the same range, together with some new metrics, which make the evaluation more fair and practical. Extensive experiments on CrossDocked2020 demonstrate that our approach outperforms the existing models in generating realistic molecules with valid structures and conformations while maintaining high binding affinity.
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spellingShingle AUTODIFF: Autoregressive Diffusion Modeling for Structure-based Drug Design
Li, Xinze
Wang, Penglei
Fu, Tianfan
Gao, Wenhao
Li, Chengtao
Shi, Leilei
Liu, Junhong
Machine Learning
Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate molecules that can bind tightly to the target protein, is an essential problem in drug discovery, and previous approaches have achieved initial success. However, most existing methods still suffer from invalid local structure or unrealistic conformation issues, which are mainly due to the poor leaning of bond angles or torsional angles. To alleviate these problems, we propose AUTODIFF, a diffusion-based fragment-wise autoregressive generation model. Specifically, we design a novel molecule assembly strategy named conformal motif that preserves the conformation of local structures of molecules first, then we encode the interaction of the protein-ligand complex with an SE(3)-equivariant convolutional network and generate molecules motif-by-motif with diffusion modeling. In addition, we also improve the evaluation framework of SBDD by constraining the molecular weights of the generated molecules in the same range, together with some new metrics, which make the evaluation more fair and practical. Extensive experiments on CrossDocked2020 demonstrate that our approach outperforms the existing models in generating realistic molecules with valid structures and conformations while maintaining high binding affinity.
title AUTODIFF: Autoregressive Diffusion Modeling for Structure-based Drug Design
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02003