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HEPOM: Using Graph Neural Networks for the Accelerated Predictions of Hydrolysis Free Energies in Different pH Conditions.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c02443
Rishabh D Guha, Santiago Vargas, Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith, Alexander Rizzolo Epstein, Maxwell Venetos, Ryan Kingsbury, Mingjian Wen, Samuel M Blau, Kristin A Persson

Hydrolysis is a fundamental family of chemical reactions where water facilitates the cleavage of bonds. The process is ubiquitous in biological and chemical systems, owing to water's remarkable versatility as a solvent. However, accurately predicting the feasibility of hydrolysis through computational techniques is a difficult task, as subtle changes in reactant structure like heteroatom substitutions or neighboring functional groups can influence the reaction outcome. Furthermore, hydrolysis is sensitive to the pH of the aqueous medium, and the same reaction can have different reaction properties at different pH conditions. In this work, we have combined reaction templates and high-throughput ab initio calculations to construct a diverse data set of hydrolysis free energies. The developed framework automatically identifies reaction centers, generates hydrolysis products, and utilizes a trained graph neural network (GNN) model to predict ΔG values for all potential hydrolysis reactions in a given molecule. The long-term goal of the work is to develop a data-driven, computational tool for high-throughput screening of pH-specific hydrolytic stability and the rapid prediction of reaction products, which can then be applied in a wide array of applications including chemical recycling of polymers and ion-conducting membranes for clean energy generation and storage.

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Application of Deep Learning to Predict the Persistence, Bioaccumulation, and Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c02293
Dominga Evangelista, Elliot Nelson, Rachael Skyner, Ben Tehan, Mattia Bernetti, Marinella Roberti, Maria Laura Bolognesi, Giovanni Bottegoni

This study investigates the application of a deep learning (DL) model, specifically a message-passing neural network (MPNN) implemented through Chemprop, to predict the persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity (PBT) characteristics of compounds, with a focus on pharmaceuticals. We employed a clustering strategy to provide a fair assessment of the model performances. By applying the generated model to a set of pharmaceutically relevant molecules, we aim to highlight potential PBT chemicals and extract PBT-relevant substructures. These substructures can serve as structural flags, alerting drug designers to potential environmental issues from the earliest stages of the drug discovery process. Incorporating these findings into pharmaceutical development workflows is expected to drive significant advancements in creating more environmentally friendly drug candidates while preserving their therapeutic efficacy.

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Interaction of Arginine and Tryptophan-Rich Short Antimicrobial Peptides with Membrane Models: A Combined Fluorescence, Simulations, and Theoretical Approach.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00139
Bogdan Zorila, George Necula, Lorant Janosi, Ioan Turcu, Mihaela Bacalum, Mihai Radu

The augmented increase in bacterial antimicrobial resistance necessitates the discovery of alternative antimicrobial molecules such as short antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with antimicrobial activity and low cytotoxicity. While many such peptides have been studied, their selective affinity for bacterial versus mammalian membranes remains unclear. Here, we propose a complementary approach using state-of-the-art fluorescence experiments, molecular dynamics simulations, and theoretical techniques. The main goal of this approach is to unravel the energetics and molecular interactions of AMPs with different membrane models at the lipid-water interface. We use short Trp- and Arg-rich AMPs, pure phosphatidylcholine (PC), and an 85:15 mixture of PC with phosphatidylglycerol (PG) lipids for the mammalian and bacterial model membranes, respectively. First, we found that the electrostatic interaction of PG headgroups with Arg enhances the peptide interaction with mixed bilayers by 25-30%, leading to increased hydrogen bonding and stronger membrane adhesion. Second, the obtained Gibbs free energies revealed significantly distinct partitioning of the AMP at the interface for the two bilayers, suggesting a qualitatively different insertion method of cationic AMPs into each of the two membrane models. These results highlight the potential of our approach to unravel the membrane selectivity of an AMP in the context of AMP-based rational design of antibiotics.

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Personalized Energy Adaptation through Reweighting Learning (PEARL) Force Field for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00140
Xiaoyue Ji, Junjie Zhu, Bozitao Zhong, Zhengxin Li, Taeyoung Choi, Xiaochen Cui, Ting Wei, Hai-Feng Chen

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) have garnered significant attention due to their critical roles in complex human diseases. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as a valuable approach for studying IDPs, whose accuracy heavily depends on the accuracy of force fields. Despite this, the high conformational flexibility of IDPs presents limitations for current force fields in precisely capturing their conformational features. Here, we developed a tool for generating force field parameters, consisting of two main components: the construction and training of a model named DihedralProbNet to predict protein dihedral probability distributions and the DeepReweighting algorithm to optimize force field parameters. This personalized energy adaptation through reweighting learning was termed the PEARL force field. To evaluate its performance, 8 IDPs and 5 folded protein systems were used. The results demonstrate that the PEARL force field more accurately reproduces the conformational ensembles of IDPs than ff19SB and stabilizes the conformations of folded proteins. Therefore, by enabling a more accurate sampling of IDP conformations, PEARL has the potential to advance our understanding of the role of IDPs in biological processes and their involvement in disease mechanisms.

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A Specialized and Enhanced Deep Generation Model for Active Molecular Design Targeting Kinases Guided by Affinity Prediction Models and Reinforcement Learning.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00074
Xiaomeng Liu, Qin Li, Xiao Yan, Lingling Wang, Jiayue Qiu, Xiaojun Yao, Huanxiang Liu

Kinases are critical regulators in numerous cellular processes, and their dysregulation is linked to various diseases, including cancer. Thus, protein kinases have emerged as major drug targets at present, with approximately a quarter to a third of global drug development efforts focusing on kinases. Additionally, deep learning-based molecular generation methods have shown obvious advantages in exploring large chemical space and improving the efficiency of drug discovery. However, many current molecular generation models face challenges in considering specific targets and generating molecules with desired properties, such as target-related activity. Here, we developed a specialized and enhanced deep learning-based molecular generation framework named KinGen, which is specially designed for the efficient generation of small molecule kinase inhibitors. By integrating reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and a specialized reward module, KinGen leverages a binding affinity prediction model as part of its reward function, which allows it to accurately guide the generation process toward biologically relevant molecules with high target activity. This approach not only ensures that the generated molecules have desirable binding properties but also improves the efficiency of molecular optimization. The results demonstrate that KinGen can generate structurally valid, unique, and diverse molecules. The generated molecules exhibit binding affinities to the target that are comparable to known inhibitors, achieving an average docking score of -9.5 kcal/mol, which highlights the model's ability to design compounds with enhanced activity. These results suggest that KinGen has the potential to serve as an effective tool for accelerating kinase-targeted drug discovery efforts.

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TCnet: A Novel Strategy to Predict Target Combination of Alzheimer's Disease via Network-Based Methods.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00172
Chengyuan Yue, Baiyu Chen, Fei Pan, Ze Wang, Hongbo Yu, Guixia Liu, Weihua Li, Rui Wang, Yun Tang

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with an unclear pathogenesis; the traditional ″single gene-single target-single drug″ strategy is insufficient for effective treatment. This study explores a novel strategy for the multitarget therapy of AD by integrating multiomics data and employing network analysis. Different from conventional single-target methods, TCnet adopts a mechanism-driven strategy, utilizing multiomics data to decompose disease mechanisms, construct potential target combinations, and prioritize the optimal combinations using a scoring function. TCnet not only advances our understanding of disease mechanisms but also facilitates large-scale drug screening. This approach was further employed to screen active compounds from Huang-Lian-Jie-Du-Tang (HLJDT), identifying quercetin as a candidate targeting GSK3β and ADAM17. Subsequent in vitro experiments confirmed the neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of quercetin. Overall, TCnet offers a promising approach for predicting target combinations and provides new insights and directions for drug discovery in AD.

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Can Deep Learning Blind Docking Methods be Used to Predict Allosteric Compounds?
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00331
Eric A Chen, Yingkai Zhang

Allosteric compounds offer an alternative mode of inhibition to orthosteric compounds with opportunities for selectivity and noncompetition. Structure-based drug design (SBDD) of allosteric compounds introduces complications compared to their orthosteric counterparts; multiple binding sites of interest are considered, and often allosteric binding is only observed in particular protein conformations. Blind docking methods show potential in virtual screening allosteric ligands, and deep learning methods, such as DiffDock, achieve state-of-the-art performance on protein-ligand complex prediction benchmarks compared to traditional docking methods such as Vina and Lin_F9. To this aim, we explore the utility of a data-driven platform called the minimum distance matrix representation (MDMR) to retrospectively predict recently discovered allosteric inhibitors complexed with Cyclin-Dependent Kinase (CDK) 2. In contrast to other protein complex representations, it uses the minimum residue-residue (or residue-ligand) distance as a feature that prioritizes the formation of interactions. Analysis of this representation highlights the variety of protein conformations and ligand binding modes, and we identify an intermediate protein conformation that other heuristic-based kinase conformation classification methods do not distinguish. Next, we design self- and cross-docking benchmarks to assess whether docking methods can predict both orthosteric and allosteric binding modes and if prospective success is conditional on the selection of the protein receptor conformation, respectively. We find that a combined method, DiffDock followed by Lin_F9 Local Re-Docking (DiffDock + LRD), can predict both orthosteric and allosteric binding modes, and the intermediate conformation must be selected to predict the allosteric pose. In summary, this work highlights the value of a data-driven method to explore protein conformations and ligand binding modes and outlines the challenges of SBDD of allosteric compounds.

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Constrained Structure Minimizations on Hyperspheres for Minimum Energy Path Following.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c02351
Jorge Alberto Sanchez Alvarez, Luis López-Sosa, Andreas M Köster, Patrizia Calaminici

In this work, a reliable and robust trust region method for restricted minimizations on hyperspheres is developed. The working equations of this new methodology are presented, together with their validation. The performance and characteristics of this new algorithm are discussed by a constrained minimization on a sphere using a two-dimensional Quapp model surface. The obtained results show that the proposed method for minimizations on hyperspheres guarantees convergence to constrained minima. Its enhanced numerical stability permits tight convergence criteria for constrained minimizations. The application of the new restricted minimizer in the framework of the hierarchical transition state finder and for the calculation of intrinsic reaction coordinates for 38 chemical reactions demonstrates its robustness and efficiency.

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Drug-Target Affinity Prediction Based on Topological Enhanced Graph Neural Networks.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c01335
Hengliang Guo, Congxiang Zhang, Jiandong Shang, Dujuan Zhang, Yang Guo, Kang Gao, Kecheng Yang, Xu Gao, Dezhong Yao, Wanting Chen, Mengfan Yan, Gang Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in drug-target affinity (DTA) analysis, reducing the cost of drug development. Unlike traditional one-dimensional (1D) sequence-based methods, GNNs leverage graph structures to capture richer protein and drug features, leading to improved DTA prediction performance. However, existing methods often neglect to incorporate valuable protein cavity information, a key aspect of protein physical chemistry. This study addresses this gap by proposing a novel topology-enhanced GNN for DTA prediction that integrates protein pocket data. Additionally, we optimize training and message-passing strategies to enhance the model's feature representation capabilities. Our model's effectiveness is validated on the Davis and KIBA data sets, demonstrating its ability to capture the intricate interplay between drugs and targets. The source code is publicly available on https://github.com/ZZDXgangwu/DTA.

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Estimation of Absolute Binding Free Energies for Drugs That Bind Multiple Proteins.
IF 5.6 2区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c01555
Erik Lindahl, Ran Friedman

The Gibbs energy of binding (absolute binding free energy, ABFE) of a drug to proteins in the body determines the drug's affinity to its molecular target and its selectivity. ABFE is challenging to measure, and experimental values are not available for many proteins together with potential drugs and other molecules that bind them. Accurate means of calculating such values are, therefore, highly in demand. Realizing that toxicity and side effects are closely related to off-target binding, here we calculate the ABFE of two drugs, each to multiple proteins, in order to examine whether it is possible to carry out such calculations and achieve the required accuracy. The methods that were used were free energy perturbation with replica exchange molecular dynamics (FEP/REMD) and density functional theory (DFT) with a cluster approach and a simplified model. DFT calculations were supplemented with energy decomposition analysis (EDA). The accuracy of each method is discussed, and suggestions are made for the approach toward better ABFE calculations.

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