The designs are scaffolds of the experimentally validated binder N237 (https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.20.695652). N237 shows low-nanomolar affinity measured by BLI, sub-nanomolar EC50 in ELISA, and in vitro (ELISA-based) competition against both human EphrinB2 and a neutralizing antibody. Validation with infectious Nipah virus was performed in a BSL-4 laboratory, where N237 exhibited weak neutralization compared to the highly potent monoclonal antibody HENV-117.
Based on interface residues of N237 and N101 scaffolds were designed using RFdiffusion1 with ProteinMPNN for sequence generation. Interface residues were excluded from sequence design. In silico validation was performed with Boltz-2 using 50 different seeds. Final submission is composed of designs with average ipSAE over all 50 Boltz-2 predictions <= 0.8.
id: young-ram-cloud

Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G
Strong
4.2e-8 M
True
13.3 kDa
119
id: azure-lion-willow

Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G
Strong
5.8e-8 M
True
9.6 kDa
87
id: radiant-gecko-ruby

Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G
Medium
1.3e-7 M
True
11.1 kDa
99
id: vast-owl-moss

Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G
None
75.28
True
13.7 kDa
124
id: quiet-cobra-granite

Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G
0.84
82.11
--
13.4 kDa
122