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ArticleProceedings of machine learning research2025

Sidechain conditioning and modeling for full-atom protein sequence design with FAMPNN.

Talal Widatalla, Richard W Shuai, Brian L Hie, Po-Ssu Huang

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  3. ProteinDJ: A high-performance and modular protein design pipeline.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  5. Ensemble-conditioned protein sequence design with Caliby.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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Talal WidatallaDepartment of Biophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Richard W ShuaiDepartment of Biophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Brian L HieArc Insitute, Palo Alto, CA.
Po-Ssu HuangDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Funding

Generative neural networks for structure-based antibody designR01GM147893 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Possu Huang · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM147893
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leading deep learning-based methods for fixed-backbone protein sequence design do not model protein sidechain conformation during sequence generation despite the large role the three-dimensional arrangement of sidechain atoms play in protein conformation, stability, and overall protein function. Instead, these models implicitly reason about crucial sidechain interactions based on backbone geometry and known amino acid sequence labels. To address this, we present FAMPNN (Full-Atom MPNN), a sequence design method that explicitly models both sequence identity and sidechain conformation for each residue, where the per-token distribution of a residue's discrete amino acid identity and its continuous sidechain conformation are learned with a combined categorical cross-entropy and diffusion loss objective. We demonstrate that learning these distributions jointly is a highly synergistic task that both improves sequence recovery while achieving state-of-the-art sidechain packing. Furthermore, benefits from full-atom modeling generalize from sequence recovery to practical protein design applications, such as zero-shot prediction of experimental binding and stability measurements.

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PMCPMC12646570

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