Searching for potential inhibitors of SARS-COV-2 main protease using supervised learning and perturbation calculations

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Inhibiting the biological activity of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro can prevent viral replication. In this context, a hybrid approach using knowledge- and physics-based methods was proposed to characterize potential inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 Mpro. Initially, supervised machine learning (ML) models were trained to predict a ligand-binding affinity of ca. 2 million compounds with the correlation on a test set of R = 0.748 ± 0.044 . Atomistic simulations were then used to refine the outcome of the ML model. Using LIE/FEP calculations, nine compounds from the top 100 ML inhibitors were suggested to bind well to the protease with the domination of van der Waals interactions. Furthermore, the binding affinity of these compounds is also higher than that of nirmatrelvir, which was recently approved by the US FDA to treat COVID-19. In addition, the ligands altered the catalytic triad Cys145 - His41 - Asp187, possibly disturbing the biological activity of SARS-CoV-2.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:564

Enthalten in:

Chemical physics - 564(2023) vom: 01. Jan., Seite 111709

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nguyen, Trung Hai [VerfasserIn]
Tam, Nguyen Minh [VerfasserIn]
Tuan, Mai Van [VerfasserIn]
Zhan, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Vu, Van V [VerfasserIn]
Quang, Duong Tuan [VerfasserIn]
Ngo, Son Tung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Docking, Simulation
FEP
FEP, Free Energy Perturbation
Journal Article
LIE
LIE, Linear Interaction Energy
ML, Machine Learning
Machine learning
Mpro, SARS-CoV-2 Mpro
SARS-CoV-2 Mpro
SL, Supervised Learning
Supervised learning

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Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chemphys.2022.111709

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347039782