Generative design and validation of therapeutic peptides for glioblastoma based on a potential target ATP5A

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02030v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:17:17 GMT
• Title: Generative design and validation of therapeutic peptides for glioblastoma based on a potential target ATP5A
• Authors: Hao Qian, Pu You, Lin Zeng, Jingyuan Zhou, Dengdeng Huang, Kaicheng Li, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu,
• Abstract summary: We present a framework combining generative modeling and experimental validation to optimize peptides targeting ATP5A.<n>As the first lead peptide-conditioned flow matching model, POTFlow holds strong potential as a generalizable framework for therapeutic peptide design.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Glioblastoma (GBM) remains the most aggressive tumor, urgently requiring novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we present a dry-to-wet framework combining generative modeling and experimental validation to optimize peptides targeting ATP5A, a potential peptide-binding protein for GBM. Our framework introduces the first lead-conditioned generative model, which focuses exploration on geometrically relevant regions around lead peptides and mitigates the combinatorial complexity of de novo methods. Specifically, we propose POTFlow, a \underline{P}rior and \underline{O}ptimal \underline{T}ransport-based \underline{Flow}-matching model for peptide optimization. POTFlow employs secondary structure information (e.g., helix, sheet, loop) as geometric constraints, which are further refined by optimal transport to produce shorter flow paths. With this design, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with five popular approaches. When applied to GBM, our method generates peptides that selectively inhibit cell viability and significantly prolong survival in a patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model. As the first lead peptide-conditioned flow matching model, POTFlow holds strong potential as a generalizable framework for therapeutic peptide design.

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