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GeoGAD: geometry-aware antibody design framework for complementarity-determining region precision engineering.

Songjian Wei¹, Jinxiong Zhang^1,2, Yan Chen^1,2

¹School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China.

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GeoGAD enhances antibody design by accurately modeling geometric constraints in complementarity-determining regions (CDRs). This geometry-aware framework improves antibody sequence-structure co-modeling and affinity optimization for therapeutic applications.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Immunoinformatics
Protein engineering

Background:

Antibodies are crucial for immune response, neutralizing pathogens via antigen binding through complementarity-determining regions (CDRs).
Current CDR design methods struggle with geometric constraints, multi-scale spatial relationships, and conformational representation, limiting prediction accuracy.
Precise antibody design is vital for developing effective diagnostics and therapeutics.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce GeoGAD, a novel geometry-aware antibody design framework.
To address limitations in existing antibody design methods, particularly in modeling geometric and conformational aspects of CDRs.
To enhance the accuracy and efficiency of computational antibody design for therapeutic purposes.

Main Methods:

Developed GeoGAD, incorporating rotational positional encoding for geometric sensitivity.
Integrated a geometry-aware module using dynamic message passing and adaptive edge refinement.
Employed a Gaussian attention mechanism with an edge-type-sensitive spatial Gaussian kernel for long-range sequence dependency modeling.
Utilized multi-edge-type coordinate optimization for precise spatial feature integration.

Main Results:

GeoGAD demonstrated superior or comparable performance against state-of-the-art models in antibody sequence-structure co-modeling, CDR design, and affinity optimization.
Achieved high amino acid recovery rates (AAR) and excellent structural accuracy (RMSD, TM-score).
The framework effectively models long-range sequence dependencies while focusing on critical local residues.

Conclusions:

GeoGAD provides a geometrically consistent framework for advanced antibody design.
The enhanced modeling of CDR geometry significantly improves antibody design precision.
This framework holds promise for the computational design of next-generation therapeutic antibodies.