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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

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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URL

Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119270

Organization

Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.05.043

UT WoS

000684817100018

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85107709300

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.
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Abstract

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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