High-accuracy structure modeling for antibody-antigen complexes
Suhui WangiD, Jian ZhuangiD, Xinyue CuiiD, Zexin Lv, Dongliang Hou, Guijun ZhangiD
Abstract
Accurate modeling of antibody-antigen complexes is crucial for advancing therapeutics and diagnostics, yet predicting their binding interface remains a formidable challenge. To address this, we introduce DeepAAAssembly, a protocol that enhances static structural information from AlphaFold3 by integrating dynamic interaction patterns to guide complex assembly. Our approach leverages predicted inter-chain residue distances to construct a flexibility-aware energy function, which drives a two-stage conformational sampling process for global exploration and local exploitation. On a benchmark set of 67 representative antibody-antigen complexes, by incorporating a built-in confidence selection mechanism, DeepAAAssembly outperforms AlphaFold3, achieving not only a 12.9% higher average DockQ score and more medium- and high-quality models, but also reliably elevating the most challenging cases from incorrect to acceptable accuracy. These results demonstrate that DeepAAAssembly effectively captures conserved interaction motifs and conformational flexibility, offering a robust framework for high-accuracy antibody-antigen modeling.
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