Functionally active modulators targeting the LRRK2 WD40 repeat domain identified by FRASE-bot in CACHE Challenge #1
Akhila Mettu,
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Marta Glavatskikh,
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Xiaowen Wang
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et al.
Chemical Science,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Critical
Assessment
of
Computational
Hit-Finding
Experiments
(CACHE)
Challenges
emerged
as
real-life
stress
tests
for
computational
hit-finding
strategies.
In
CACHE
Challenge
#1,
23
participants
contributed
their
original
workflows
to
identify
small-molecule
ligands
the
WD40
repeat
(WDR)
LRRK2,
a
promising
Parkinson's
target.
We
applied
FRASE-based
robot
(FRASE-bot),
platform
interaction-based
screening
allowing
drastic
reduction
explorable
chemical
space
and
concurrent
detection
putative
ligand-binding
sites.
two
rounds,
84
compounds
were
procured
experimental
testing
8
confirmed
bind
LRRK2-WDR
with
dissociation
constants
(K
d)
ranging
from
3
41
μM.
To
investigate
functional
effect
WDR
ligands,
they
tested
ability
modify
LRRK2
activity
markers
in
HEK293T
cells.
Two
showed
statistically
significant
increases
kinase
WT
affected
conformation
major
mutants.
Language: Английский
GNINA 1.3: the next increment in molecular docking with deep learning
Journal of Cheminformatics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(1)
Published: March 2, 2025
Abstract
Computer-aided
drug
design
has
the
potential
to
significantly
reduce
astronomical
costs
of
development,
and
molecular
docking
plays
a
prominent
role
in
this
process.
Molecular
is
an
silico
technique
that
predicts
bound
3D
conformations
two
molecules,
necessary
step
for
other
structure-based
methods.
Here,
we
describe
version
1.3
open-source
software
Gnina
.
This
release
updates
underlying
deep
learning
framework
PyTorch,
resulting
more
computationally
efficient
paving
way
seamless
integration
methods
into
pipeline.
We
retrained
our
CNN
scoring
functions
on
updated
CrossDocked2020
v1.3
dataset
introduce
knowledge-distilled
facilitate
high-throughput
virtual
screening
with
Furthermore,
add
functionality
covalent
docking,
where
atom
ligand
covalently
receptor.
update
expands
scope
further
positions
as
user-friendly,
framework.
available
at
https://github.com/gnina/gnina
Scientific
contributions
:
GNINA
open
source
tool
enhanced
support
models
effective
screening.
Language: Английский