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ArticleJournal of proteome research2022

PPI-Affinity: A Web Tool for the Prediction and Optimization of Protein-Peptide and Protein-Protein Binding Affinity.

Sandra Romero-Molina, Yasser B Ruiz-Blanco, Joel Mieres-Perez, Mirja Harms, Jan Münch, Michael Ehrmann, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sandra Romero-MolinaComputational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany.
Yasser B Ruiz-BlancoComputational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany.
Joel Mieres-PerezComputational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany.
Mirja HarmsInstitute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm 89081, Germany.
Jan MünchInstitute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm 89081, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7316-7141
Michael EhrmannFaculty of Biology, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1927-260X
Elsa Sanchez-GarciaComputational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9211-5803
University of Duisburg-Essen · DEUniversität Ulm · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virtual screening of protein-protein and protein-peptide interactions is a challenging task that directly impacts the processes of hit identification and hit-to-lead optimization in drug design projects involving peptide-based pharmaceuticals. Although several screening tools designed to predict the binding affinity of protein-protein complexes have been proposed, methods specifically developed to predict protein-peptide binding affinity are comparatively scarce. Frequently, predictors trained to score the affinity of small molecules are used for peptides indistinctively, despite the larger complexity and heterogeneity of interactions rendered by peptide binders. To address this issue, we introduce PPI-Affinity, a tool that leverages support vector machine (SVM) predictors of binding affinity to screen datasets of protein-protein and protein-peptide complexes, as well as to generate and rank mutants of a given structure. The performance of the SVM models was assessed on four benchmark datasets, which include protein-protein and protein-peptide binding affinity data. In addition, we evaluated our model on a set of mutants of EPI-X4, an endogenous peptide inhibitor of the chemokine receptor CXCR4, and on complexes of the serine proteases HTRA1 and HTRA3 with peptides. PPI-Affinity is freely accessible at https://protdcal.zmb.uni-due.de/PPIAffinity.

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PeptidesProteinsDrug DesignProtein BindingSupport Vector MachinePeptidesProteinsbinding free energydissociation constantmachine learningmutationpeptide designprotein−protein interaction

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PMID35654412
PMCPMC9361347
OpenAlexW4281742422

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