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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Turning high-throughput structural biology into predictive inhibitor design.

Kadi L Saar, William McCorkindale, Daren Fearon, Melissa Boby, Haim Barr, Amir Ben-Shmuel, COVID Moonshot Consortium, Nir London, Frank von Delft, John D Chodera and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Kadi L SaarYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5926-3628
William McCorkindaleYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.
Daren FearonDiamond Light Source Ltd., Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3529-7863
Melissa BobyComputational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
Haim BarrWohl Institute for Drug Discovery of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Amir Ben-ShmuelIsrael Institution of Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel.
COVID Moonshot Consortium
Nir LondonDepartment of Chemical and Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2687-0699
Frank von DelftDiamond Light Source Ltd., Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.
John D ChoderaComputational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
Alpha A LeeCavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Target enablementU19AI171399 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI CHODERA, JOHN DAMON, LEE, ALPHA ALBERT · 2022 to 2025
$89.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI171399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A common challenge in drug design pertains to finding chemical modifications to a ligand that increases its affinity to the target protein. An underutilized advance is the increase in structural biology throughput, which has progressed from an artisanal endeavor to a monthly throughput of hundreds of different ligands against a protein in modern synchrotrons. However, the missing piece is a framework that turns high-throughput crystallography data into predictive models for ligand design. Here, we designed a simple machine learning approach that predicts protein-ligand affinity from experimental structures of diverse ligands against a single protein paired with biochemical measurements. Our key insight is using physics-based energy descriptors to represent protein-ligand complexes and a learning-to-rank approach that infers the relevant differences between binding modes. We ran a high-throughput crystallography campaign against the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (M

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COVID-19Antiviral AgentsBiologyHumansLigandsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsLigandscrystallographydrug designmachine learning

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PMID36877844
PMCPMC10089178

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