Abstract
Motivation: Reliable predictive models of protein-ligand binding affinity are required in many areas of biomedical research. Accurate prediction based on current descriptors or molecular fingerprints (FPs) remains a challenge. We develop novel interaction FPs (IFPs) to encode protein-ligand interactions and use them to improve the prediction. Results: Proteo-chemometrics IFPs (PrtCmm IFPs) formed by combining extended connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) with the proteo-chemometrics concept. Combining PrtCmm IFPs with machine-learning models led to efficient scoring models, which were validated on the PDBbind v2019 core set and CSAR-HiQ sets. The PrtCmm IFP Score outperformed several other models in predicting protein-ligand binding affinities. Besides, conventional ECFPs were simplified to generate new IFPs, which provided consistent but faster predictions. The relationship between the base atom properties of ECFPs and the accuracy of predictions was also investigated.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 17 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2570-2579 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Bioinformatics |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| Early online date | 26 Feb 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Funding
This work was supported by the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council [Project 11200818] and City University of Hong Kong [Project 9610460].