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ArticleACS central science2024

HelixDiff, a Score-Based Diffusion Model for Generating All-Atom α-Helical Structures.

Xuezhi Xie, Pedro A Valiente, Jisun Kim, Philip M Kim

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Article in ACS central science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  4. AI-Driven De Novo Design of Ultra Long-Acting GLP-1 Receptor Agonists.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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Xuezhi XieDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.
Pedro A ValienteDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-6017
Jisun KimDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.
Philip M KimDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3683-152X

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Abstract

Here, we present HelixDiff, a score-based diffusion model for generating all-atom helical structures. We developed a hot spot-specific generation algorithm for the conditional design of α-helices targeting critical hotspot residues in bioactive peptides. HelixDiff generates α-helices with near-native geometries for most test scenarios with root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) less than 1 Å. Significantly, HelixDiff outperformed our prior GAN-based model with regard to sequence recovery and Rosetta scores for unconditional and conditional generations. As a proof of principle, we employed HelixDiff to design an acetylated GLP-1 D-peptide agonist that activated the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) cAMP accumulation without stimulating the glucagon-like peptide-2 receptor (GLP-2R). We predicted that this D-peptide agonist has a similar orientation to GLP-1 and is substantially more stable in MD simulations than our earlier D-GLP-1 retro-inverse design. This D-peptide analogue is highly resistant to protease degradation and induces similar levels of AKT phosphorylation in HEK293 cells expressing GLP-1R compared to the native GLP-1. We then discovered that matching crucial hotspots for the GLP-1 function is more important than the sequence orientation of the generated D-peptides when constructing D-GLP-1 agonists.

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