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ArticleGut microbes2026

High-throughput identification of bacterial β-glucuronidase inhibitors using machine learning.

Bohan Zhang, Haoran Yue, Anna Skalse, Nannapat Sangfuang, David Shorthouse, Simon Gaisford, Abdul W Basit

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7 authors.

Bohan ZhangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0009-0005-3954-0762
Haoran YueDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6427-456X
Anna SkalseDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0009-0001-6018-2163
Nannapat SangfuangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7530-9270
David ShorthouseDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3207-3584
Simon GaisfordDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1000-3208
Abdul W BasitDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5368-6603

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human gut microbiome plays a vital role in regulating host physiological functions and influencing the pharmacokinetics of interventions, particularly drug metabolism, which in turn affects pharmacodynamics. Gut microbial β-glucuronidase (GUS) is a key bacterial enzyme that modulates drug therapeutic outcome and gastrointestinal toxicity through deconjugating glucuronidated drug metabolites. Despite this, systematic high-throughput prediction of GUS inhibitors remains limited by sparse experimental data and the translational shortcomings of known compounds. Here, machine learning is applied as a powerful tool to identify potential GUS inhibitors from more than 10,000 FDA-approved drugs, food additives, and excipients. In this study, both unsupervised and supervised machine learning models were trained on literature-derived data describing the inhibitory potency of 122 compounds against

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Enzyme InhibitorsGlucuronidaseHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysMachine LearningEscherichia coliGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGlycoproteinsHumansbeta-glucuronidase inhibitorEnzyme InhibitorsGlucuronidaseGlycoproteinsArtificial intelligencebacterial enzymebeta-glucuronidasebiopharmaceuticalsdrug degradationdrug metabolismgut microbiomeinhibitor predictionmachine learningRDKit fingerprintsSMILES

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PMCPMC13245089

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