GPCR-IPL score: multilevel featurization of GPCR-ligand interaction patterns and prediction of ligand functions from selectivity to biased activationopen access
- Authors
- Kumar, Surendra; Teli, Mahesh K.; Kim, Mi-hyun
- Issue Date
- Mar-2024
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- molecular featurization; biased activation; functional selectivity; G-protein-coupled receptor; machine learning; protein-ligand complex interaction patterns
- Citation
- BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS, v.25, no.2
- Journal Title
- BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
- Volume
- 25
- Number
- 2
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/91997
- DOI
- 10.1093/bib/bbae105
- ISSN
- 1467-5463
1477-4054
- Abstract
- G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate diverse cell signaling cascades after recognizing extracellular ligands. Despite the successful history of known GPCR drugs, a lack of mechanistic insight into GPCR challenges both the deorphanization of some GPCRs and optimization of the structure-activity relationship of their ligands. Notably, replacing a small substituent on a GPCR ligand can significantly alter extracellular GPCR-ligand interaction patterns and motion of transmembrane helices in turn to occur post-binding events of the ligand. In this study, we designed 3D multilevel features to describe the extracellular interaction patterns. Subsequently, these 3D features were utilized to predict the post-binding events that result from conformational dynamics from the extracellular to intracellular areas. To understand the adaptability of GPCR ligands, we collected the conformational information of flexible residues during binding and performed molecular featurization on a broad range of GPCR-ligand complexes. As a result, we developed GPCR-ligand interaction patterns, binding pockets, and ligand features as score (GPCR-IPL score) for predicting the functional selectivity of GPCR ligands (agonism versus antagonism), using the multilevel features of (1) zoomed-out 'residue level' (for flexible transmembrane helices of GPCRs), (2) zoomed-in 'pocket level' (for sophisticated mode of action) and (3) 'atom level' (for the conformational adaptability of GPCR ligands). GPCR-IPL score demonstrated reliable performance, achieving area under the receiver operating characteristic of 0.938 and area under the precision-recall curve of 0.907 (available in gpcr-ipl-score.onrender.com). Furthermore, we used the molecular features to predict the biased activation of downstream signaling (G(i/o), G(q/11), G(s) and beta-arrestin) as well as the functional selectivity. The resulting models are interpreted and applied to out-of-set validation with three scenarios including the identification of a new MRGPRX antagonist.
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