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All-Atom GPCR-Ligand Simulation via Residual Isometric Latent Flow

Quantitative Methods 2026-02-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), primary targets for over one-third of approved therapeutics, rely on intricate conformational transitions to transduce signals. While Molecular Dynamics (MD) is essential for elucidating this transduction process, particularly within ligand-bound complexes, conventional all-atom MD simulation is computationally prohibitive. In this paper, we introduce GPCRLMD, a deep generative framework for efficient all-atom GPCR-ligand simulation.GPCRLMD employs a Harmonic-Prior Variational Autoencoder (HP-VAE) to first map the complex into a regularized isometric latent space, preserving geometric topology via physics-informed constraints. Within this latent space, a Residual Latent Flow samples evolution trajectories, which are subsequently decoded back to atomic coordinates. By capturing temporal dynamics via relative displacements anchored to the initial structure, this residual mechanism effectively decouples static topology from dynamic fluctuations. Experimental results demonstrate that GPCRLMD achieves state-of-the-art performance in GPCR-ligand dynamics simulation, faithfully reproducing thermodynamic observables and critical ligand-receptor interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2602.03902,
  title  = {All-Atom GPCR-Ligand Simulation via Residual Isometric Latent Flow},
  author = {Jiying Zhang and Shuhao Zhang and Pierre Vandergheynst and Patrick Barth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03902},
  year   = {2026}
}

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36 pages

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