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ArticleEuropean journal of medicinal chemistry2022

Discovery of novel SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease covalent inhibitors using deep learning-based screen.

Liying Wang, Zhongtian Yu, Shiwei Wang, Zheng Guo, Qi Sun, Luhua Lai

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Article in European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Recent Advances in Covalent Drug Discovery.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liying WangBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China.
Zhongtian YuBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China.
Shiwei WangBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China.
Zheng GuoBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China.
Qi SunBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China; Research Unit of Drug Design Method, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2021RU014), Beijing, 100871, PR China. Electronic address: qsun2015@pku.edu.cn.
Luhua LaiBNLMS, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China; Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, PR China; Research Unit of Drug Design Method, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2021RU014), Beijing, 100871, PR China. Electronic address: lhlai@pku.edu.cn.
Peking University · CNChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease is one of the key targets for drug development against COVID-19. Most known SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitors act by covalently binding to the active site cysteine. Yet, computational screens against this enzyme were mainly focused on non-covalent inhibitor discovery. Here, we developed a deep learning-based stepwise strategy for selective covalent inhibitor screen. We used a deep learning framework that integrated a directed message passing neural network with a feed-forward neural network to construct two different classifiers for either covalent or non-covalent inhibition activity prediction. These two classifiers were trained on the covalent and non-covalent 3CL protease inhibitors dataset, respectively, which achieved high prediction accuracy. We then successively applied the covalent inhibitor model and the non-covalent inhibitor model to screen a chemical library containing compounds with covalent warheads of cysteine. We experimentally tested the inhibition activity of 32 top-ranking compounds and 12 of them were active, among which 6 showed IC

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDeep LearningAntiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteineHumansProtease InhibitorsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteineProtease Inhibitors3C-like protease inhibitorsCovalent warheadsDeep learningSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36209629
PMCPMC9528019
OpenAlexW4300963584

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