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2021
Screening of world approved drugs against highly dynamical spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 using CaverDock and machine learning
RANGEL PAMPLONA PIZARRO PINTO, José Gaspar; Ondřej VÁVRA; Sérgio Manuel MARQUES; Jiří FILIPOVIČ; David BEDNÁŘ et al.
Basic information
Original name
Screening of world approved drugs against highly dynamical spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 using CaverDock and machine learning
Authors
RANGEL PAMPLONA PIZARRO PINTO, José Gaspar; Ondřej VÁVRA; Sérgio Manuel MARQUES; Jiří FILIPOVIČ; David BEDNÁŘ and Jiří DAMBORSKÝ
Edition
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2021, 2001-0370
Other information
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Country of publisher
Netherlands
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Marked to be transferred to RIV
Yes
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119270
Organization
Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
CaverDock; CaverWeb; Protein dynamics; Machine learning; Tunnel; Virtual screening
Links
EF17_043/0009632, research and development project. GJ20-15915Y, research and development project. LM2018140, research and development project. 814418, interní kód Repo. 857560, interní kód Repo.
In the original language
The new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes pathological pulmonary symptoms. Most efforts to develop vaccines and drugs against this virus target the spike glycoprotein, particularly its S1 subunit, which is recognised by angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. Here we use the in-house developed tool CaverDock to perform virtual screening against spike glycoprotein using a cryogenic electron microscopy structure (PDB-ID: 6VXX) and the representative structures of five most populated clusters from a previously published molecular dynamics simulation. The dataset of ligands was obtained from the ZINC database and consists of drugs approved for clinical use worldwide. Trajectories for the passage of individual drugs through the tunnel of the spike glycoprotein homotrimer, their binding energies within the tunnel, and the duration of their contacts with the trimer's three subunits were computed for the full dataset. Multivariate statistical methods were then used to establish structure-activity relationships and select top candidate for movement inhibition. This new protocol for the rapid screening of globally approved drugs (4359 ligands) in a multi-state protein structure (6 states) showed high robustness in the rate of finished calculations. The protocol is universal and can be applied to any target protein with an experimental tertiary structure containing protein tunnels or channels. The protocol will be implemented in the next version of CaverWeb (https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/caverweb/) to make it accessible to the wider scientific community. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
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