CycPeptMP: enhancing membrane permeability prediction of cyclic peptides with multi-level molecular features and data augmentation.

Autor: Li J; Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1528550, Japan., Yanagisawa K; Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1528550, Japan.; Middle-Molecule ITbased Drug Discovery Laboratory (MIDL), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1528550, Japan., Akiyama Y; Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1528550, Japan.; Middle-Molecule ITbased Drug Discovery Laboratory (MIDL), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1528550, Japan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Briefings in bioinformatics [Brief Bioinform] 2024 Jul 25; Vol. 25 (5).
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae417
Abstrakt: Cyclic peptides are versatile therapeutic agents that boast high binding affinity, minimal toxicity, and the potential to engage challenging protein targets. However, the pharmaceutical utility of cyclic peptides is limited by their low membrane permeability-an essential indicator of oral bioavailability and intracellular targeting. Current machine learning-based models of cyclic peptide permeability show variable performance owing to the limitations of experimental data. Furthermore, these methods use features derived from the whole molecule that have traditionally been used to predict small molecules and ignore the unique structural properties of cyclic peptides. This study presents CycPeptMP: an accurate and efficient method to predict cyclic peptide membrane permeability. We designed features for cyclic peptides at the atom-, monomer-, and peptide-levels and seamlessly integrated these into a fusion model using deep learning technology. Additionally, we applied various data augmentation techniques to enhance model training efficiency using the latest data. The fusion model exhibited excellent prediction performance for the logarithm of permeability, with a mean absolute error of $0.355$ and correlation coefficient of $0.883$. Ablation studies demonstrated that all feature levels contributed and were relatively essential to predicting membrane permeability, confirming the effectiveness of augmentation to improve prediction accuracy. A comparison with a molecular dynamics-based method showed that CycPeptMP accurately predicted peptide permeability, which is otherwise difficult to predict using simulations.
(© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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