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- Title
DEELIG: A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity.
- Authors
Ahmed, Asad; Mam, Bhavika; Sowdhamini, Ramanathan
- Abstract
Protein-ligand binding prediction has extensive biological significance. Binding affinity helps in understanding the degree of protein-ligand interactions and is a useful measure in drug design. Protein-ligand docking using virtual screening and molecular dynamic simulations are required to predict the binding affinity of a ligand to its cognate receptor. Performing such analyses to cover the entire chemical space of small molecules requires intense computational power. Recent developments using deep learning have enabled us to make sense of massive amounts of complex data sets where the ability of the model to "learn" intrinsic patterns in a complex plane of data is the strength of the approach. Here, we have incorporated convolutional neural networks to find spatial relationships among data to help us predict affinity of binding of proteins in whole superfamilies toward a diverse set of ligands without the need of a docked pose or complex as user input. The models were trained and validated using a stringent methodology for feature extraction. Our model performs better in comparison to some existing methods used widely and is suitable for predictions on high-resolution protein crystal (⩽2.5 Å) and nonpeptide ligand as individual inputs. Our approach to network construction and training on protein-ligand data set prepared in-house has yielded significant insights. We have also tested DEELIG on few COVID-19 main protease-inhibitor complexes relevant to the current public health scenario. DEELIG-based predictions can be incorporated in existing databases including RSCB PDB, PDBMoad, and PDBbind in filling missing binding affinity data for protein-ligand complexes.
- Subjects
DEEP learning; CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks; SMALL molecules; CRYSTALLOIDS (Botany); LIGAND binding (Biochemistry); FEATURE extraction
- Publication
Bioinformatics & Biology Insights, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1177-9322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/11779322211030364