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DyneTrion: A Spatio-temporally Coherent Generative Emulator for Protein Dynamics Across Timescales

Quantitative Methods 2026-07-15 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Proteins function through coordinated motion across multiple spatial and temporal scales, underpinning processes such as ligand binding, allostery, and catalysis. However, accessing long-timescale conformational change through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations remains prohibitively expensive for systematic exploration across diverse systems. Here, we present DyneTrion, a generative protein dynamics emulator that jointly enforces geometric symmetry, structural consistency and temporal coherence within a single framework. DyneTrion uses a tri-attention architecture that integrates invariant point attention (IPA) for SE(3)-robust geometric updates, spatial attention anchored to a reference conformation to preserve structural integrity, and temporal attention to model correlated evolution across time frames. Across 100-ns MD trajectory simulation benchmarks, DyneTrion reproduces MD-derived flexibility, ensemble distributions and interaction observables while maintaining stereochemical validity during extrapolation. To evaluate long time-scale generalization, we introduce dynamicPDB, a dataset of over 10,000 proteins with up to 1-μ\mus all-atom trajectories at 10-ps resolution and accompanying physical annotations. On microsecond trajectories, DyneTrion preserves free-energy landscapes and metastable-state populations, and it supports large conformational propagation in apo-to-holo transitions and fast folders. Together, DyneTrion provides a scalable path from static structure prediction toward time-resolved, ensemble-faithful protein modeling. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/fudan-generative-vision/DyneTrion

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@article{arxiv.2607.15309,
  title  = {DyneTrion: A Spatio-temporally Coherent Generative Emulator for Protein Dynamics Across Timescales},
  author = {Kaihui Cheng and Zhiqiang Cai and Peng Tu and Yisong Yao and Limei Han and Libo Wu and Siyu Zhu and Tzuhsiung Yang and Yuan Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15309},
  year   = {2026}
}