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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2023

Molecular Graph-Based Deep Learning Algorithm Facilitates an Imaging-Based Strategy for Rapid Discovery of Small Molecules Modulating Biomolecular Condensates.

Peng Gao, Qi Zhang, Devin Keely, Don W Cleveland, Yihong Ye, Wei Zheng, Min Shen, Haiyang Yu

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Discovery of TDP-43 aggregation inhibitorsbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Peng GaoThe National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20850, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5669-9007
Qi ZhangThe National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20850, United States.
Devin KeelyCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Molecular Biology, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75287, United States.
Don W ClevelandDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 92093, United States.
Yihong YeNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States.
Wei ZhengThe National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20850, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1034-0757
Min ShenThe National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20850, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8218-0433
Haiyang YuCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Molecular Biology, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75287, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3460-6716
National Institutes of Health · USSouthwestern Medical Center · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

TDP-43 acetylation, phase separation, aggregation, and clearance by antibody-mediated degradationR01NS121604 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CLEVELAND, DON W · 2021 to 2025
$3.8M
Determining the molecular organization of TDP-43 in liquid spherical annuli and establishing a designer gene therapeutic strategy to degrade TDP-43 aggregatesK99NS114162 · NINDS · LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES LTD · PI YU, HAIYANG · 2020 to 2021
$250k
Determining the molecular organization of TDP-43 in liquid spherical annuli and establishing a designer gene therapeutic strategy to degrade TDP-43 aggregatesR00NS114162 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI YU, HAIYANG · 2022 to 2022
$249k
NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS114162NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS114162NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS121604
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecular condensates are proposed to cause diseases, such as cancer and neurodegeneration, by concentrating proteins at abnormal subcellular loci. Imaging-based compound screens have been used to identify small molecules that reverse or promote biomolecular condensates. However, limitations of conventional imaging-based methods restrict the screening scale. Here, we used a graph convolutional network (GCN)-based computational approach and identified small molecule candidates that reduce the nuclear liquid-liquid phase separation of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), an essential protein that undergoes phase transition in neurodegenerative diseases. We demonstrated that the GCN-based deep learning algorithm is suitable for spatial information extraction from the molecular graph. Thus, this is a promising method to identify small molecule candidates with novel scaffolds. Furthermore, we validated that these candidates do not affect the normal splicing function of TDP-43. Taken together, a combination of an imaging-based screen and a GCN-based deep learning method dramatically improves the speed and accuracy of the compound screen for biomolecular condensates.

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Biomolecular CondensatesDeep LearningAlgorithmsDiagnostic ImagingDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA-Binding Proteins

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PMID37937963
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