arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Transferring Peptide-Target Interaction Patterns to Small Molecules by Joint Guidance for Diffusion and Flow Matching

The paper introduces PIFT, a framework that transfers peptide‑target interaction patterns to small molecules by jointly guiding masked discrete diffusion and continuous flow matching. PIFT maps peptide‑target and small‑molecule‑target interfaces into a shared, target‑conditioned interaction space, enabling peptide‑derived references to steer both building‑block logits and 3D coordinates toward peptide‑compatible molecules while maintaining a strong molecular prior. Experiments on diverse protein‑protein interaction targets demonstrate that this cross‑modal representation improves interface recovery, docking performance, and molecular properties.

By Jian Lee, Changyun Cho, Sun Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

FuseDiff: Symmetry-Preserving Joint Diffusion for Dual-Target Structure-Based Drug Design

FuseDiff is an end‑to‑end diffusion model designed for dual‑target structure‑based drug design, jointly generating a ligand graph and two pocket‑specific binding poses conditioned on both target pockets. It employs a message‑passing backbone with Dual‑target Local Context Fusion (DLCF) to fuse ligand atom contexts from both pockets, preserving symmetry while enabling expressive joint modeling. The model enforces topological consistency across the two poses and allows target‑specific geometric adaptation, achieving state‑of‑the‑art docking performance and enabling systematic assessment of dual‑target pose quality before docking‑based pose search.

By Jianliang Wu, Anjie Qiao, Zhen Wang, Zhewei Wei, Sheng Chen