Clustering Protein Binding Pockets and Identifying Potential Drug Interactions: A Novel Ligand-based Featurization Method

Abstract Protein-ligand interactions are essential to drug discovery and drug development efforts. Desirable on-target or multi-target interactions are a first step in finding an effective therapeutic; undesirable off-target interactions are a first step in assessing safety. In this work, we introduce a novel ligand-based featurization and mapping of human protein pockets to identify closely related protein targets, and to project novel drugs into a hybrid protein-ligand feature space to identify their likely protein interactions. Using structure-based template matches from PDB, protein pockets are featurized by the ligands which bind to their best co-complex template matches. The simplicity and interpretability of this approach provides a granular characterization of the human proteome at the protein pocket level instead of the traditional protein-level characterization by family, function, or pathway. We demonstrate the power of this featurization method by clustering a subset of the human proteome and evaluating the predicted cluster associations of over 7,000 compounds..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Stevenson, Garrett A. [VerfasserIn]
Kirshner, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Bennion, Brian J. [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiaohua [VerfasserIn]
Zemla, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Marisa W. [VerfasserIn]
Epstein, Aidan [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Derek [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hyojin [VerfasserIn]
Bennett, W. F. D. [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Sergio E. [VerfasserIn]
Allen, Jonathan E. [VerfasserIn]
Lightstone, Felice C. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.05.11.538979

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI039565157