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FlowDesign: Improved Design of Antibody CDRs Through Flow Matching and Better Prior Distributions
Preprint — published as 10.1016/j.cels.2025.101270 · Paper page
Abstract
Designing antibodies with desired binding specificity and affinity is essential for pharmaceutical research. While diffusion-based models have advanced the co-design of the Complementarity-Determining Regions (CDRs) sequences and structures, challenges remain, including non-informative prior distribution, incompatibility with discrete amino acid types, and impractical computational cost in large-scale sampling. To address these, we proposed FlowDesign, a sequence-structure co-design approach based on Flow Matching, offering: (1) Flexible selection of prior distributions; (2) Direct matching of discrete distributions; (3) Enhanced computational efficiency for large-scale sampling. By leveraging various priors, data-driven structural models proved the most informative. FlowDesign outperformed baselines in Amino Acid Recovery (AAR), RMSD, and Rosetta energy. We also applied FlowDesign to design antibodies targeting the HIV-1 receptor CD4. FlowDesign yielded antibodies with improved binding affinity and neutralizing potency compared to the antibody Ibalizumab across multiple HIV mutants, validated by Biolayer Interferometry (BLI) and pseudovirus neutralization. This highlights FlowDesign's potential in antibody and protein design.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wu, J., Kong, X., Sun, N., Wei, J., Shan, S., Feng, F., Wu, F., Peng, J., Zhang, L., Liu, Y., & Ma, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Yang
- Ma, Jianzhu
- Venue
- Cell Systems
- Publisher
- openRxiv
- Published
- 2024-11-08
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 101270-101270
- ISSN
- 2405-4712 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4409921893
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11
- FWCI
- 6.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cell Systems (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Key Research and Development Program of China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China Stem Cell and Translational Research (2022YFF1203100)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Keywords
- antibody design, hypervariable region, flow matching, prior distributions, neutralizing antibodies, ibalizumab, pseudovirus neutralization, biolayer interferometry, protein design
- MeSH terms
- Antibodies, Humans, HIV Antibodies, HIV-1, Complementarity Determining Regions, Antibodies, Neutralizing
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