A Molecular Generative Model of COVID-19 Main Protease Inhibitors Using Long Short-Term Memory-Based Recurrent Neural Network

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a serious threat to public health and prompted researchers to find anti-coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) compounds. In this study, the long short-term memory-based recurrent neural network was used to generate new inhibitors for the coronavirus. First, the model was trained to generate drug compounds in the form of valid simplified molecular-input line-entry system strings. Then, the structures of COVID-19 main protease inhibitors were applied to fine-tune the model. After fine-tuning, the network could generate new molecular structures as novel SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors. Molecular docking exhibited that some generated compounds have the proper affinity to the active site of the protease. Molecular Dynamics simulations explored binding free energies of the compounds over simulation trajectories. In addition, in silico absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion studies showed that some novel compounds could be formulated as orally active agents. Based on molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies, compound AADH possessed significant binding affinity and presumably inhibition against the SARS-CoV-2 main protease enzyme. Therefore, the proposed deep learning-based model was capable of generating promising anti-COVID-19 drugs..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology - 31(2024), 1 vom: 06. Jan., Seite 83-98

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mehrzadi, Arash [VerfasserIn]
Rezaee, Elham [VerfasserIn]
Gharaghani, Sajjad [VerfasserIn]
Fakhar, Zeynab [VerfasserIn]
Mirhosseini, Seyed Mohsen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Deep learning
Journal Article
MD simulations
Main protease
Molecular docking
Protease Inhibitors
Recurrent neural network

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Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1089/cmb.2023.0064

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365458635