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Hodyna D, Kovalishyn V, Kachaeva M, Shulha Y, Klipkov A, Shaitanova E, Kobzar O, Shablykin O, Metelytsia L. In Silico, in Vitro and in Vivo Study of Substituted Imidazolidinone Sulfonamides as Antibacterial Agents. Chem Biodivers 2023; 20:e202301267. [PMID: 37943002 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202301267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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New substituted imidazolidinone sulfonamides have been developed using a rational drug design strategy. Predictive QSAR models for the search of new antibacterials were created using the OCHEM platform. Regression models were applied to verify a virtual chemical library of new imidazolidinone derivatives designed to have antibacterial activity. A number of substituted imidazolidinone sulfonamides as effective antibacterial agents were identified by QSAR prediction, synthesized and characterized by spectral and elemental, and tested in vitro. Six studied compounds have shown the highest in vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-negative E. coli and Gram-positive S. aureus multidrug-resistant strains. The in vivo acute toxicity of these imidazolidinone sulfonamides based on the LC50 value ranged from 16.01 to 44.35 mg/L (slightly toxic compounds class). The results of molecular docking suggest that the antibacterial mechanism of the compounds can be associated with the inhibition of post-translational modification processes of bacterial peptides and proteins.
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- Diana Hodyna
- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 02094, Academician Kukhar Str, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Toropova AP, Toropov AA. Using the local symmetry in amino acids sequences of polypeptides to improve the predictive potential of models of their inhibitor activity. Amino Acids 2023; 55:1437-1445. [PMID: 37707646 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-023-03322-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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The minimal inhibitory concentrations (pMIC) are a valuable measure of the biological activity of polypeptides. Numerical data on the pMIC are necessary to systematize knowledge on polypeptides' biochemical behaviour. The model of negative decimal logarithm of pMIC of polypeptides in the form of a mathematical function of a sequence of amino acids is suggested. The suggested model is based on the so-called correlation weights of amino acids together with the correlation weights of fragments of local symmetry (FLS). Three kinds of the FLS are considered: (i) three-symbol fragments '…xyx…', (ii) four-symbol fragments '…xyyx…', and (iii) five-symbol fragments '…xyzyx…'. The models built using the Monte Carlo technique improved by applying the index of ideality of correlation (IIC) and correlation intensity index (CII).
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- Alla P Toropova
- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health Science, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156, Milan, Italy.
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health Science, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156, Milan, Italy
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Li N, Bai J, Wang W, Liang X, Zhang W, Li W, Lu L, Xiao L, Xu Y, Wang Z, Zhu C, Zhou J, Geng D. Facile and Versatile Surface Functional Polyetheretherketone with Enhanced Bacteriostasis and Osseointegrative Capability for Implant Application. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:59731-59746. [PMID: 34886671 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c19834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Implant-associated infections and inadequate osseointegration are two challenges of implant materials in orthopedics. In this study, a lithium-ion-loaded (Li+)/mussel-inspired antimicrobial peptide (AMP) designed to improve the osseointegration and inhibit bacterial infections effectively is prepared on a polyetheretherketone (PEEK) biomaterial surface through the combination of hydrothermal treatment and mussel-inspired chemistry. The results illustrate that the multifunctional PEEK material demonstrated a great inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, which was attributed to irreversible bacterial membrane damage. In addition, the multifunctional PEEK can simultaneously upregulate the expression of osteogenesis-associated genes/proteins via the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Furthermore, an in vivo assay of an infection model revealed that the multifunctional PEEK implants killed bacteria with an efficiency of 95.03%. More importantly, the multifunctional PEEK implants accelerated the implant-bone interface osseointegration compared with pure PEEK implants in the noninfection model. Overall, this work provides a promising strategy for improving orthopedic implant materials with ideal osseointegration and infection prevention simultaneously, which may have broad application clinical prospects.
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- Ning Li
- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui Provincial Hospital, Heifei, Anhui 230001, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui Provincial Hospital, Heifei, Anhui 230001, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Zhangjiagang TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu 215000, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Zhangjiagang TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu 215000, China
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui Provincial Hospital, Heifei, Anhui 230001, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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Zhou P, Liu Q, Wu T, Miao Q, Shang S, Wang H, Chen Z, Wang S, Wang H. Systematic Comparison and Comprehensive Evaluation of 80 Amino Acid Descriptors in Peptide QSAR Modeling. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:1718-1731. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Peng Zhou
- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Qingshuihe Campus, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Qingshuihe Campus, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Qingshuihe Campus, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Science, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Qingshuihe Campus, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Qingshuihe Campus, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) at Shahe Campus, Chengdu 610054, China
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Waghu FH, Gawde U, Gomatam A, Coutinho E, Idicula‐Thomas S. A QSAR modeling approach for predicting myeloid antimicrobial peptides with high sequence similarity. Chem Biol Drug Des 2020; 96:1408-1417. [DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Faiza Hanif Waghu
- Biomedical Informatics Centre Indian Council of Medical Research‐National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health MumbaiIndia
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- Biomedical Informatics Centre Indian Council of Medical Research‐National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health MumbaiIndia
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- Molecular Simulations Group, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Bombay College of Pharmacy MumbaiIndia
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- Molecular Simulations Group, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Bombay College of Pharmacy MumbaiIndia
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- Biomedical Informatics Centre Indian Council of Medical Research‐National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health MumbaiIndia
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Veltri D, Kamath U, Shehu A. Deep learning improves antimicrobial peptide recognition. Bioinformatics 2019; 34:2740-2747. [PMID: 29590297 PMCID: PMC6084614 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Motivation Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing concern. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), natural components of innate immunity, are popular targets for developing new drugs. Machine learning methods are now commonly adopted by wet-laboratory researchers to screen for promising candidates. Results In this work, we utilize deep learning to recognize antimicrobial activity. We propose a neural network model with convolutional and recurrent layers that leverage primary sequence composition. Results show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art classification models on a comprehensive dataset. By utilizing the embedding weights, we also present a reduced-alphabet representation and show that reasonable AMP recognition can be maintained using nine amino acid types. Availability and implementation Models and datasets are made freely available through the Antimicrobial Peptide Scanner vr.2 web server at www.ampscanner.com. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Daniel Veltri
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.,Medical Science & Computing, LLC, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.,School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA
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“Ideal correlations” for biological activity of peptides. Biosystems 2019; 181:51-57. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Revised: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Biswal MR, Rai S, Prakash MK. Molecular dynamics based antimicrobial activity descriptors for synthetic cationic peptides. J CHEM SCI 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-019-1590-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Veltri D, Kamath U, Shehu A. Improving Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides and Target Selectivity through Machine Learning and Genetic Programming. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2017; 14:300-313. [PMID: 28368808 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2015.2462364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Growing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is spurring research on utilizing naturally-occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as templates for novel drug design. While experimentalists mainly focus on systematic point mutations to measure the effect on antibacterial activity, the computational community seeks to understand what determines such activity in a machine learning setting. The latter seeks to identify the biological signals or features that govern activity. In this paper, we advance research in this direction through a novel method that constructs and selects complex sequence-based features which capture information about distal patterns within a peptide. Comparative analysis with state-of-the-art methods in AMP recognition reveals our method is not only among the top performers, but it also provides transparent summarizations of antibacterial activity at the sequence level. Moreover, this paper demonstrates for the first time the capability not only to recognize that a peptide is an AMP or not but also to predict its target selectivity based on models of activity against only Gram-positive, only Gram-negative, or both types of bacteria. The work described in this paper is a step forward in computational research seeking to facilitate AMP design or modification in the wet laboratory.
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Simeon S, Li H, Win TS, Malik AA, Kandhro AH, Piacham T, Shoombuatong W, Nuchnoi P, Wikberg JES, Gleeson MP, Nantasenamat C. PepBio: predicting the bioactivity of host defense peptides. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra01388d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A large-scale QSAR study of host defense peptides sheds light on the origin of their bioactivities (antibacterial, anticancer, antiviral and antifungal).
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Wang J, Shu M, Wen X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Hu Y, Lin Z. Discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors by quantitative structure–activity relationships, molecular dynamics simulation and free energy calculation. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra03743g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Employing the combined strategy to understand the features of KDR–ligands complexes, and provide a basis for rational design of inhibitors.
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- Juan Wang
- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology (Ministry of Education)
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology (Ministry of Education)
- Research Center of Bioinspired Material Science and Engineering
- Bioengineering College
- Chongqing University
- Chongqing 400044
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
- Chongqing University of Technology
- Chongqing 400054
- China
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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Xu Y, Yu S, Zou JW, Hu G, Rahman NABD, Othman RB, Tao X, Huang M. Identification of Peptide Inhibitors of Enveloped Viruses Using Support Vector Machine. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144171. [PMID: 26636321 PMCID: PMC4670226 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The peptides derived from envelope proteins have been shown to inhibit the protein-protein interactions in the virus membrane fusion process and thus have a great potential to be developed into effective antiviral therapies. There are three types of envelope proteins each exhibiting distinct structure folds. Although the exact fusion mechanism remains elusive, it was suggested that the three classes of viral fusion proteins share a similar mechanism of membrane fusion. The common mechanism of action makes it possible to correlate the properties of self-derived peptide inhibitors with their activities. Here we developed a support vector machine model using sequence-based statistical scores of self-derived peptide inhibitors as input features to correlate with their activities. The model displayed 92% prediction accuracy with the Matthew's correlation coefficient of 0.84, obviously superior to those using physicochemical properties and amino acid decomposition as input. The predictive support vector machine model for self- derived peptides of envelope proteins would be useful in development of antiviral peptide inhibitors targeting the virus fusion process.
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- Yongtao Xu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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- School of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Drug Design & Development Research Group, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Drug Design & Development Research Group, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Toropova MA, Veselinović AM, Veselinović JB, Stojanović DB, Toropov AA. QSAR modeling of the antimicrobial activity of peptides as a mathematical function of a sequence of amino acids. Comput Biol Chem 2015; 59 Pt A:126-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2015.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Peptides and Peptidomimetics for Antimicrobial Drug Design. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2015; 8:366-415. [PMID: 26184232 PMCID: PMC4588174 DOI: 10.3390/ph8030366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2015] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and highlight a few classes of traditional antimicrobial peptides with a focus on structure-activity relationship studies. After first dissecting the important physiochemical properties that influence the antimicrobial and toxic properties of antimicrobial peptides, the contributions of individual amino acids with respect to the peptides antibacterial properties are presented. A brief discussion of the mechanisms of action of different antimicrobials as well as the development of bacterial resistance towards antimicrobial peptides follows. Finally, current efforts on novel design strategies and peptidomimetics are introduced to illustrate the importance of antimicrobial peptide research in the development of future antibiotics.
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Cherkasov A, Muratov EN, Fourches D, Varnek A, Baskin II, Cronin M, Dearden J, Gramatica P, Martin YC, Todeschini R, Consonni V, Kuz'min VE, Cramer R, Benigni R, Yang C, Rathman J, Terfloth L, Gasteiger J, Richard A, Tropsha A. QSAR modeling: where have you been? Where are you going to? J Med Chem 2014; 57:4977-5010. [PMID: 24351051 PMCID: PMC4074254 DOI: 10.1021/jm4004285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1034] [Impact Index Per Article: 103.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Quantitative structure-activity relationship modeling is one of the major computational tools employed in medicinal chemistry. However, throughout its entire history it has drawn both praise and criticism concerning its reliability, limitations, successes, and failures. In this paper, we discuss (i) the development and evolution of QSAR; (ii) the current trends, unsolved problems, and pressing challenges; and (iii) several novel and emerging applications of QSAR modeling. Throughout this discussion, we provide guidelines for QSAR development, validation, and application, which are summarized in best practices for building rigorously validated and externally predictive QSAR models. We hope that this Perspective will help communications between computational and experimental chemists toward collaborative development and use of QSAR models. We also believe that the guidelines presented here will help journal editors and reviewers apply more stringent scientific standards to manuscripts reporting new QSAR studies, as well as encourage the use of high quality, validated QSARs for regulatory decision making.
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- Artem Cherkasov
- Vancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6H3Z6, Canada
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- Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
- Department of Molecular Structure and Cheminformatics, A.V. Bogatsky Physical-Chemical Institute National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, 65080, Ukraine
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- Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, L. Pasteur University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 67000, France
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- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L33AF, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L33AF, UK
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Insubria, Varese, 21100, Italy
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- Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 20126, Italy
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- Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 20126, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Structure and Cheminformatics, A.V. Bogatsky Physical-Chemical Institute National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, 65080, Ukraine
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- Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Rome, 00161, Italy
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- Altamira LLC, Columbus OH 43235, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43215, USA
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- National Center for Computational Toxicology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27519, USA
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- Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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Vishnepolsky B, Pirtskhalava M. Prediction of linear cationic antimicrobial peptides based on characteristics responsible for their interaction with the membranes. J Chem Inf Model 2014; 54:1512-23. [PMID: 24730612 PMCID: PMC4038373 DOI: 10.1021/ci4007003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Most available antimicrobial peptides (AMP) prediction methods use common approach for different classes of AMP. Contrary to available approaches, we suggest that a strategy of prediction should be based on the fact that there are several kinds of AMP that vary in mechanisms of action, structure, mode of interaction with membrane, etc. According to our suggestion for each kind of AMP, a particular approach has to be developed in order to get high efficacy. Consequently, in this paper, a particular but the biggest class of AMP, linear cationic antimicrobial peptides (LCAP), has been considered and a newly developed simple method of LCAP prediction described. The aim of this study is the development of a simple method of discrimination of AMP from non-AMP, the efficiency of which will be determined by efficiencies of selected descriptors only and comparison the results of the discrimination procedure with the results obtained by more complicated discriminative methods. As descriptors the physicochemical characteristics responsible for capability of the peptide to interact with an anionic membrane were considered. The following characteristics such as hydrophobicity, amphiphaticity, location of the peptide in relation to membrane, charge density, propensities to disordered structure and aggregation were studied. On the basis of these characteristics, a new simple algorithm of prediction is developed and evaluation of efficacies of the characteristics as descriptors performed. The results show that three descriptors, hydrophobic moment, charge density and location of the peptide along the membranes, can be used as discriminators of LCAPs. For the training set, our method gives the same level of accuracy as more complicated machine learning approaches offered as CAMP database service tools. For the test set accuracy obtained by our method gives even higher value than the one obtained by CAMP prediction tools. The AMP prediction tool based on the considered method is available at http://www.biomedicine.org.ge/dbaasp/.
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- Boris Vishnepolsky
- I. Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine, Laboratory of Bioinformatics , Tbilisi 0160, Georgia
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Borkar MR, Pissurlenkar RRS, Coutinho EC. HomoSAR: Bridging comparative protein modeling with quantitative structural activity relationship to design new peptides. J Comput Chem 2013; 34:2635-46. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Revised: 08/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Mahesh R. Borkar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Bombay College of Pharmacy; Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai 400098 India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Bombay College of Pharmacy; Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai 400098 India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Bombay College of Pharmacy; Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai 400098 India
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Stepwise identification of potent antimicrobial peptides from human genome. Biosystems 2013; 113:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2013] [Revised: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cui Y, Zhang C, Wang Y, Shi J, Zhang L, Ding Z, Qu X, Cui H. Class IIa bacteriocins: diversity and new developments. Int J Mol Sci 2012; 13:16668-707. [PMID: 23222636 PMCID: PMC3546714 DOI: 10.3390/ijms131216668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Revised: 10/10/2012] [Accepted: 11/12/2012] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Class IIa bacteriocins are heat-stable, unmodified peptides with a conserved amino acids sequence YGNGV on their N-terminal domains, and have received much attention due to their generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status, their high biological activity, and their excellent heat stability. They are promising and attractive agents that could function as biopreservatives in the food industry. This review summarizes the new developments in the area of class IIa bacteriocins and aims to provide uptodate information that can be used in designing future research.
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- Yanhua Cui
- School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; E-Mails: (Y.C.); (C.Z.); (Z.D.)
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; E-Mails: (Y.C.); (C.Z.); (Z.D.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150001, China; E-Mail:
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- Guelph Food Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, ON N1G5C9, Canada; E-Mail:
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; E-Mails: (Y.C.); (C.Z.); (Z.D.)
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; E-Mails: (Y.C.); (C.Z.); (Z.D.)
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- Institute of Microbiology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150010, China; E-Mail:
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150001, China; E-Mail:
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Joseph S, Karnik S, Nilawe P, Jayaraman VK, Idicula-Thomas S. ClassAMP: a prediction tool for classification of antimicrobial peptides. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2012; 9:1535-1538. [PMID: 22732690 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2012.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are gaining popularity as anti-infective agents. Information on sequence features that contribute to target specificity of AMPs will aid in accelerating drug discovery programs involving them. In this study, an algorithm called ClassAMP using Random Forests (RFs) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) has been developed to predict the propensity of a protein sequence to have antibacterial, antifungal, or antiviral activity. ClassAMP is available at http://www.bicnirrh.res.in/classamp/.
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- Shaini Joseph
- Biomedical Informatics Center of Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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Fernandes FC, Rigden DJ, Franco OL. Prediction of antimicrobial peptides based on the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system application. Biopolymers 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.22066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Toropov AA, Toropova AP, Raska I, Benfenati E, Gini G. QSAR modeling of endpoints for peptides which is based on representation of the molecular structure by a sequence of amino acids. Struct Chem 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-012-9995-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Radman A, Gredičak M, Kopriva I, Jerić I. Predicting antitumor activity of peptides by consensus of regression models trained on a small data sample. Int J Mol Sci 2011; 12:8415-30. [PMID: 22272081 PMCID: PMC3257078 DOI: 10.3390/ijms12128415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2011] [Revised: 11/15/2011] [Accepted: 11/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Predicting antitumor activity of compounds using regression models trained on a small number of compounds with measured biological activity is an ill-posed inverse problem. Yet, it occurs very often within the academic community. To counteract, up to some extent, overfitting problems caused by a small training data, we propose to use consensus of six regression models for prediction of biological activity of virtual library of compounds. The QSAR descriptors of 22 compounds related to the opioid growth factor (OGF, Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met) with known antitumor activity were used to train regression models: the feed-forward artificial neural network, the k-nearest neighbor, sparseness constrained linear regression, the linear and nonlinear (with polynomial and Gaussian kernel) support vector machine. Regression models were applied on a virtual library of 429 compounds that resulted in six lists with candidate compounds ranked by predicted antitumor activity. The highly ranked candidate compounds were synthesized, characterized and tested for an antiproliferative activity. Some of prepared peptides showed more pronounced activity compared with the native OGF; however, they were less active than highly ranked compounds selected previously by the radial basis function support vector machine (RBF SVM) regression model. The ill-posedness of the related inverse problem causes unstable behavior of trained regression models on test data. These results point to high complexity of prediction based on the regression models trained on a small data sample.
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- Andreja Radman
- Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia; E-Mails: (A.R.); (M.G.)
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- Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia; E-Mails: (A.R.); (M.G.)
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- Division of Laser and Atomic Research and Development, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia; E-Mail:
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- Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia; E-Mails: (A.R.); (M.G.)
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +385-1-4560-980; Fax: +385-1-4680-195
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Kyani A, Mehrabian M, Jenssen H. Quantitative structure-activity relationships and docking studies of calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists. Chem Biol Drug Des 2011; 79:166-76. [PMID: 21974743 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2011.01252.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Defining the role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in migraine pathogenesis could lead to the application of calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists as novel migraine therapeutics. In this work, quantitative structure-activity relationship modeling of biological activities of a large range of calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists was performed using a panel of physicochemical descriptors. The computational studies evaluated different variable selection techniques and demonstrated shuffling stepwise multiple linear regression to be superior over genetic algorithm-multiple linear regression. The linear quantitative structure-activity relationship model revealed better statistical parameters of cross-validation in comparison with the non-linear support vector regression technique. Implementing only five peptide descriptors into this linear quantitative structure-activity relationship model resulted in an extremely robust and highly predictive model with calibration, leave-one-out and leave-20-out validation R(2) of 0.9194, 0.9103, and 0.9214, respectively. We performed docking of the most potent calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists with the calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor and demonstrated that peptide antagonists act by blocking access to the peptide-binding cleft. We also demonstrated the direct contact of residues 28-37 of the calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists with the receptor. These results are in agreement with the conclusions drawn from the quantitative structure-activity relationship model, indicating that both electrostatic and steric factors should be taken into account when designing novel calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonists.
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- Anahita Kyani
- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 13145-1384, Tehran, Iran.
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Torrent M, Andreu D, Nogués VM, Boix E. Connecting peptide physicochemical and antimicrobial properties by a rational prediction model. PLoS One 2011; 6:e16968. [PMID: 21347392 PMCID: PMC3036733 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2010] [Accepted: 01/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The increasing rate in antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains has become an imperative health issue. Thus, pharmaceutical industries have focussed their efforts to find new potent, non-toxic compounds to treat bacterial infections. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising candidates in the fight against antibiotic-resistant pathogens due to their low toxicity, broad range of activity and unspecific mechanism of action. In this context, bioinformatics' strategies can inspire the design of new peptide leads with enhanced activity. Here, we describe an artificial neural network approach, based on the AMP's physicochemical characteristics, that is able not only to identify active peptides but also to assess its antimicrobial potency. The physicochemical properties considered are directly derived from the peptide sequence and comprise a complete set of parameters that accurately describe AMPs. Most interesting, the results obtained dovetail with a model for the AMP's mechanism of action that takes into account new concepts such as peptide aggregation. Moreover, this classification system displays high accuracy and is well correlated with the experimentally reported data. All together, these results suggest that the physicochemical properties of AMPs determine its action. In addition, we conclude that sequence derived parameters are enough to characterize antimicrobial peptides.
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- Marc Torrent
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biosciences Faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
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Zhou X, Li Z, Dai Z, Zou X. QSAR modeling of peptide biological activity by coupling support vector machine with particle swarm optimization algorithm and genetic algorithm. J Mol Graph Model 2010; 29:188-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2010.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2010] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/13/2010] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Taboureau O. Methods for building quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) descriptors and predictive models for computer-aided design of antimicrobial peptides. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 618:77-86. [PMID: 20094859 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-594-1_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Antimicrobial peptides are ubiquitous in nature where they play important roles in host defense and microbial control. More than 1,000 naturally occurring peptides have been described so far and those considered for pharmaceutical development have all been further optimized by rational approaches. In recent years, high-throughput screening assays have been developed to specifically address optimization of AMPs. In addition to these cell-based in vivo systems, a range of computational in silico systems can be applied in order to predict the biological activity of AMPs for specific bacteria. Among them, quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) method, which attempts to correlate chemical structure to biological measurement, has shown promising results in the optimization and discovery of peptide candidates. Therefore, this chapter is devoted to describe the QSAR method and recent progress applied in AMP.
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- Olivier Taboureau
- Department of Systems Biology, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Jaiswal K, Naik PK. Distinguishing compounds with anticancer activity by ANN using inductive QSAR descriptors. Bioinformation 2008; 2:441-51. [PMID: 18841240 PMCID: PMC2561164 DOI: 10.6026/97320630002441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2008] [Revised: 06/17/2008] [Accepted: 07/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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This article describes a method developed for predicting anticancer/non-anticancer drugs using artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN used in this study is a feed-forward neural network with a
standard back-propagation training algorithm. Using 30 ‘inductive’ QSAR descriptors alone, we have been able to achieve 84.28% accuracy for correct separation of compounds with- and without anticancer
activity. For the complete set of 30 inductive QSAR descriptors, ANN based method reveals a superior model (accuracy = 84.28%, Qpred = 74.28%, sensitivity = 0.9285, specificity = 0.7857, Matthews correlation
coefficient (MCC) = 0.6998). The method was trained and tested on a non redundant data set of 380 drugs (122 anticancer and 258 non-anticancer). The elaborated QSAR model based on the Artificial Neural Networks
approach has been extensively validated and has confidently assigned anticancer character to a number of trial anticancer drugs from the literature.
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- Kunal Jaiswal
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Distt.-Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India-173215
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Liang G, Li Z. Factor Analysis Scale of Generalized Amino Acid Information as the Source of a New Set of Descriptors for Elucidating the Structure and Activity Relationships of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200630145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Karakoc E, Sahinalp SC, Cherkasov A. Comparative QSAR- and fragments distribution analysis of drugs, druglikes, metabolic substances, and antimicrobial compounds. J Chem Inf Model 2006; 46:2167-82. [PMID: 16995747 DOI: 10.1021/ci0601517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A number of binary QSAR models have been developed using methods of artificial neural networks, k-nearest neighbors, linear discriminative analysis, and multiple linear regression and have been compared for their ability to recognize five types of chemical compounds that include conventional drugs, inactive druglikes, antimicrobial substituents, and bacterial and human metabolites. Thus, 20 binary classifiers have been created using a variety of 'inductive' and traditional 2D QSAR descriptors which allowed up to 99% accurate separation of the studied groups of activities. The comparison of the performance by four computational approaches demonstrated that the neural nets result in generally more accurate predictions, followed closely by k-nearest neighbors methods. It has also been demonstrated that complementation of 'inductive' descriptors with conventional QSAR parameters does not generally improve the quality of resulting solutions, conforming high predictive ability of 'inductive' variables. The conducted comparative QSAR analysis based on a novel linear optimization approach has helped to identify the extent of overlapping between the studied groups of compounds, such as cross-recognition of bacterial metabolites and antimicrobial compounds reflecting their immanent resemblance and similar origin. Human metabolites have been characterized as a very distinctive class of substances, separated from all other groups in the descriptors space and exhibiting different QSAR behavior. The analysis of unique structural fragments and substituents revealed inhomogeneous scale-free organization of human metabolites illustrating the fact that certain molecular scaffolds (such as sugars and nucleotides) may be strongly favored by natural evolution. The established scale-free organization of human metabolites has been contemplated as a factor of their unique positioning in the descriptors space and their distinctive QSAR properties. It is anticipated that the study may bring additional insight into QSAR determinants for conventional drugs, inactive chemicals, and metabolic substances and may help in rationalizing design and discovery of novel antimicrobials and human therapeutics with improved, metabolite-like properties.
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- Emre Karakoc
- School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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Taboureau O, Olsen OH, Nielsen JD, Raventos D, Mygind PH, Kristensen HH. Design of Novispirin Antimicrobial Peptides by Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship. Chem Biol Drug Des 2006; 68:48-57. [PMID: 16923026 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2006.00405.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Novispirin G10 is an alpha-helical antimicrobial peptide designed in an effort to develop alternative treatments against multidrug-resistant micro-organisms. To further optimize the antimicrobial activity, 58 novispirin analogs were constructed and used to establish a quantitative structure-activity relationship model. A statistically significant model (r2 = 0.73, q2 = 0.61) was obtained using a set of 69 selected molecular descriptors. Among these, VolSurf and charged partial surface area descriptors played a dominant role. Analysis of the model indicated that hydrophobicity, amphipathicity and charge were the most important features influencing activity for this set of peptides. Furthermore, the ability of the quantitative structure-activity relationship model to predict bioactivity was evaluated by analyzing a set of 400 novispirin analogs designed by molecular modeling. Out of these 400, 16 new novispirins with a higher predicted antimicrobial activity were tested in the suicide expression system, and about three out of four appeared more potent than the parent novispirin G10. Combination of VolSurf and charged partial surface area descriptors seems relevant to depict the interaction between novispirin and its target(s), presumably the microbial cell membrane. The presented findings show that modeling and quantitative structure-activity relationship methods can be useful in the construction of and/or optimization of the bioactivity of antimicrobial peptides for further development as effective antibiotic therapeutics.
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Cherkasov A. Can ‘Bacterial-Metabolite-Likeness' Model Improve Odds of ‘in Silico' Antibiotic Discovery? J Chem Inf Model 2006; 46:1214-22. [PMID: 16711741 DOI: 10.1021/ci050480j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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'Inductive' QSAR descriptors have been used to develop the series of QSAR models enabling 'in silico' distinguishing between antimicrobial compounds, conventional drugs, and druglike substances. The constructed neural network-based models operating by 30 'inductive' parameters have been validated on an extensive set of 2686 chemical structures and resulted in up to 97% accurate separation of the three types of molecular activities. The demonstrated ability of 'inductive' parameters to adequately capture molecular features determining 'antibiotic-like' and 'druglike' potentials have been further utilized to construct a model of 'Bacterial-Metabolite-Likeness' (BML). The same 'inductive' descriptors have been used to train a neural network that could very accurately recognize substances involved into bacterial metabolism (that have been experimentally identified). When the developed model has been applied to the mixed set of antimicrobials, drugs, and druglike chemicals (not used for training the BML model), it exhibited a 2-5-fold recognition preference toward antimicrobial compounds compared to general drugs and an 18- to 45-fold preference when compared to a druglike substance (depending on the model stringency). These results illustrate immanent similarity between conventional antimicrobials and native bacterial metabolites and suggest that the developed BML model can be an effective classification tool for 'in silico' antibiotic studies.
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- Artem Cherkasov
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 2733 Heather Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 3J5, Canada.
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Cherkasov A, Shi Z, Fallahi M, Hammond GL. Successful in Silico Discovery of Novel Nonsteroidal Ligands for Human Sex Hormone Binding Globulin. J Med Chem 2005; 48:3203-13. [PMID: 15857126 DOI: 10.1021/jm049087f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Using "in silico" drug design methodologies, we have discovered several nonsteroidal compounds of natural origin that bind to human sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) with affinity constants of 0.1 x 10(6) to 1.2 x 10(6) M(-1). The computational solutions we developed involved pharmacophore-aided database search, virtual protein-ligand docking, and structure-activity modeling with "inductive" QSAR descriptors. By screening 23 836 natural substance structures, we identified 29 potential SHBG ligands, and eight of these bound the protein in vitro. These nonsteroidal ligands belong to four classes of molecular scaffolds with several available substitution positions that could allow chemical modification to enhance SHBG-binding activity. Interestingly, one of these compounds is structurally similar to a dicyclohexane derivative that binds to rat SHBG and causes azospermia when administered to male rats. Taken together, the in silico strategy we have developed will aid in the discovery of nonsteroidal ligands of SHBG with novel pharmacological properties.
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- Artem Cherkasov
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Heather Pavilion, 2733, Heather Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 3J5, Canada.
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