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ArticleCommunications biology2022

Differences in ligand-induced protein dynamics extracted from an unsupervised deep learning approach correlate with protein-ligand binding affinities.

Ikki Yasuda, Katsuhiro Endo, Eiji Yamamoto, Yoshinori Hirano, Kenji Yasuoka

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Ikki YasudaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Katsuhiro EndoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Eiji YamamotoDepartment of System Design Engineering, Keio Univsity, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-5297
Yoshinori HiranoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Kenji YasuokaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. yasuoka@mech.keio.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4579-0195

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Abstract

Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is a major goal in drug discovery. Generally, free energy gap is calculated between two states (e.g., ligand binding and unbinding). The energy gap implicitly includes the effects of changes in protein dynamics induced by ligand binding. However, the relationship between protein dynamics and binding affinity remains unclear. Here, we propose a method that represents ligand-binding-induced protein behavioral change with a simple feature that can be used to predict protein-ligand affinity. From unbiased molecular simulation data, an unsupervised deep learning method measures the differences in protein dynamics at a ligand-binding site depending on the bound ligands. A dimension reduction method extracts a dynamic feature that strongly correlates to the binding affinities. Moreover, the residues that play important roles in protein-ligand interactions are specified based on their contribution to the differences. These results indicate the potential for binding dynamics-based drug discovery.

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PMCPMC9120437

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