Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function

D Listov, CA Goverde, BE Correia… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The field of protein design has made remarkable progress over the past decade. Historically,
the low reliability of purely structure-based design methods limited their application, but …

Sparks of function by de novo protein design

AE Chu, T Lu, PS Huang - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Information in proteins flows from sequence to structure to function, with each step
causally driven by the preceding one. Protein design is founded on inverting this process …

Improved motif-scaffolding with SE (3) flow matching

J Yim, A Campbell, E Mathieu, AYK Foong… - ArXiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein design often begins with the knowledge of a desired function from a motif which motif-
scaffolding aims to construct a functional protein around. Recently, generative models have …

Generative flows on discrete state-spaces: Enabling multimodal flows with applications to protein co-design

A Campbell, J Yim, R Barzilay, T Rainforth… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Combining discrete and continuous data is an important capability for generative models.
We present Discrete Flow Models (DFMs), a new flow-based model of discrete data that …

[HTML][HTML] Atomically accurate de novo design of single-domain antibodies

NR Bennett, JL Watson, RJ Ragotte, AJ Borst, DL See… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite the central role that antibodies play in modern medicine, there is currently no way to
rationally design novel antibodies to bind a specific epitope on a target. Instead, antibody …

Direct conformational sampling from peptide energy landscapes through hypernetwork-conditioned diffusion

O Abdin, PM Kim - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning approaches have spurred substantial advances in the single-state prediction
of biomolecular structures. The function of biomolecules is, however, dependent on the …

Efficient 3d molecular generation with flow matching and scale optimal transport

R Irwin, A Tibo, JP Janet, S Olsson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07266, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative models for 3D drug design have gained prominence recently for their potential to
design ligands directly within protein pockets. Current approaches, however, often suffer …

Enzymeflow: Generating reaction-specific enzyme catalytic pockets through flow matching and co-evolutionary dynamics

C Hua, Y Liu, D Zhang, O Zhang, S Luan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Enzyme design is a critical area in biotechnology, with applications ranging from drug
development to synthetic biology. Traditional methods for enzyme function prediction or …

Generalized protein pocket generation with prior-informed flow matching

Z Zhang, M Zitnik, Q Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19520, 2024 - arxiv.org
Designing ligand-binding proteins, such as enzymes and biosensors, is essential in
bioengineering and protein biology. One critical step in this process involves designing …

Protein conformation generation via force-guided se (3) diffusion models

Y Wang, L Wang, Y Shen, Y Wang, H Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The conformational landscape of proteins is crucial to understanding their functionality in
complex biological processes. Traditional physics-based computational methods, such as …