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ReviewFuture science OA2025

Tracking protein kinase targeting advances: integrating QSAR into machine learning for kinase-targeted drug discovery.

Rand Shahin, Sawsan Jaafreh, Yusra Azzam

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Review in Future science OA, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rand ShahinDrug Design Unit, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0001-7330-4433
Sawsan JaafrehDepartment of Chemistry, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0003-2069-4276
Yusra AzzamJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein kinases are vital drug targets, yet designing selective inhibitors is challenging, compounded by resistance and kinome complexity. This review explores Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling for kinase drug discovery, focusing on integrating traditional QSAR with machine learning (ML)-CNNs, RNNs-and structural data. Methods include structural databases, docking, and deep learning QSAR. Key findings show ML-integrated QSAR significantly improves selective inhibitor design for CDKs, JAKs, PIM kinases. The IDG-DREAM challenge exemplifies ML's potential for accurate kinase-inhibitor interaction prediction, outperforming traditional methods and enabling inhibitors with enhanced selectivity, efficacy, and resistance mitigation. QSAR combined with advanced computation and experimental data accelerates kinase drug discovery, offering transformative precision medicine potential. This review highlights deep learning-enhanced QSAR's novelty in automating feature extraction and capturing complex relationships, surpassing traditional QSAR, while emphasizing interpretability and experimental validation for clinical translation.

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catalytic domainCNNdeep QSARdiscoveryFDA approvedkinasemachine learningQSAR

Identifiers

PMID40181786
PMCPMC11980485

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