AbFlow : End-to-end Paratope-Centric Antibody Design by Interaction Enhanced Flow Matching

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Wenda, Zhang, Yang, Wei, Zhewei, Huang, Wenbing
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author Wang, Wenda
Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Huang, Wenbing
author_facet Wang, Wenda
Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Huang, Wenbing
contents Antigen-antibody binding is a critical process in the immune response. Although recent progress has advanced antibody design, current methods lack a generative framework for end-to-end modeling of full-atom antibody structures and struggle to fully exploit antigen-specific geometric information for optimizing local binding interfaces and global structures. To overcome these limitations, we introduce AbFlow, a flow-matching framework that leverages optimal transport to design full-atom antibodies end-to-end. AbFlow incorporates an extended velocity field network featuring an equivariant Surface Multi-channel Encoder, which uses surface-level antigen interaction data to refine the antibody structure, particularly the CDR-H3 region. Extensive experiments in paratoep-centric antibody design, multi-CDRs and full-atom antibody design, binding affinity optimization, and complex structure prediction show that AbFlow produces superior antigen-antibody complexes, especially at the contact interface, and markedly improves the binding affinity of generated antibodies.
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spellingShingle AbFlow : End-to-end Paratope-Centric Antibody Design by Interaction Enhanced Flow Matching
Wang, Wenda
Zhang, Yang
Wei, Zhewei
Huang, Wenbing
Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Antigen-antibody binding is a critical process in the immune response. Although recent progress has advanced antibody design, current methods lack a generative framework for end-to-end modeling of full-atom antibody structures and struggle to fully exploit antigen-specific geometric information for optimizing local binding interfaces and global structures. To overcome these limitations, we introduce AbFlow, a flow-matching framework that leverages optimal transport to design full-atom antibodies end-to-end. AbFlow incorporates an extended velocity field network featuring an equivariant Surface Multi-channel Encoder, which uses surface-level antigen interaction data to refine the antibody structure, particularly the CDR-H3 region. Extensive experiments in paratoep-centric antibody design, multi-CDRs and full-atom antibody design, binding affinity optimization, and complex structure prediction show that AbFlow produces superior antigen-antibody complexes, especially at the contact interface, and markedly improves the binding affinity of generated antibodies.
title AbFlow : End-to-end Paratope-Centric Antibody Design by Interaction Enhanced Flow Matching
topic Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07084