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  1. Article ; Online: AAp-MSMD: Amino Acid Preference Mapping on Protein-Protein Interaction Surfaces Using Mixed-Solvent Molecular Dynamics.

    Kudo, Genki / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Yoshino, Ryunosuke / Hirokawa, Takatsugu

    Journal of chemical information and modeling

    2023  Volume 63, Issue 24, Page(s) 7768–7777

    Abstract: Peptides have attracted much attention recently owing to their well-balanced properties as drugs against protein-protein interaction (PPI) surfaces. Molecular simulation-based predictions of binding sites and amino acid residues with high affinity to PPI ...

    Abstract Peptides have attracted much attention recently owing to their well-balanced properties as drugs against protein-protein interaction (PPI) surfaces. Molecular simulation-based predictions of binding sites and amino acid residues with high affinity to PPI surfaces are expected to accelerate the design of peptide drugs. Mixed-solvent molecular dynamics (MSMD), which adds probe molecules or fragments of functional groups as solutes to the hydration model, detects the binding hotspots and cryptic sites induced by small molecules. The detection results vary depending on the type of probe molecule; thus, they provide important information for drug design. For rational peptide drug design using MSMD, we proposed MSMD with amino acid residue probes, named amino acid probe-based MSMD (AAp-MSMD), to detect hotspots and identify favorable amino acid types on protein surfaces to which peptide drugs bind. We assessed our method in terms of hotspot detection at the amino acid probe level and binding free energy prediction with amino acid probes at the PPI site for the complex structure that formed the PPI. In hotspot detection, the max-spatial probability distribution map (max-PMAP) obtained from AAp-MSMD detected the PPI site, to which each type of amino acid can bind favorably. In the binding free energy prediction using amino acid probes, ΔGFE obtained from AAp-MSMD roughly estimated the experimental binding affinities from the structure-activity relationship. AAp-MSMD, with amino acid probes, provides estimated binding sites and favorable amino acid types at the PPI site of a target protein.
    MeSH term(s) Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Solvents/chemistry ; Amino Acids/metabolism ; Proteins/chemistry ; Binding Sites ; Peptides/chemistry ; Protein Binding
    Chemical Substances Solvents ; Amino Acids ; Proteins ; Peptides
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 190019-5
    ISSN 1549-960X ; 0095-2338
    ISSN (online) 1549-960X
    ISSN 0095-2338
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01677
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  2. Article ; Online: Inverse Mixed-Solvent Molecular Dynamics for Visualization of the Residue Interaction Profile of Molecular Probes.

    Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Yoshino, Ryunosuke / Kudo, Genki / Hirokawa, Takatsugu

    International journal of molecular sciences

    2022  Volume 23, Issue 9

    Abstract: To ensure efficiency in discovery and development, the application of computational technology is essential. Although virtual screening techniques are widely applied in the early stages of drug discovery research, the computational methods used in lead ... ...

    Abstract To ensure efficiency in discovery and development, the application of computational technology is essential. Although virtual screening techniques are widely applied in the early stages of drug discovery research, the computational methods used in lead optimization to improve activity and reduce the toxicity of compounds are still evolving. In this study, we propose a method to construct the residue interaction profile of the chemical structure used in the lead optimization by performing "inverse" mixed-solvent molecular dynamics (MSMD) simulation. Contrary to constructing a protein-based, atom interaction profile, we constructed a probe-based, protein residue interaction profile using MSMD trajectories. It provides us the profile of the preferred protein environments of probes without co-crystallized structures. We assessed the method using three probes: benzamidine, catechol, and benzene. As a result, the residue interaction profile of each probe obtained by MSMD was a reasonable physicochemical description of the general non-covalent interaction. Moreover, comparison with the X-ray structure containing each probe as a ligand shows that the map of the interaction profile matches the arrangement of amino acid residues in the X-ray structure.
    MeSH term(s) Ligands ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Molecular Probes ; Proteins/chemistry ; Solvents/chemistry
    Chemical Substances Ligands ; Molecular Probes ; Proteins ; Solvents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-26
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2019364-6
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    ISSN (online) 1422-0067
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    DOI 10.3390/ijms23094749
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  3. Article ; Online: Solving Generalized Polyomino Puzzles Using the Ising Model.

    Takabatake, Kazuki / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)

    2022  Volume 24, Issue 3

    Abstract: In the polyomino puzzle, the aim is to fill a finite space using several polyomino pieces with no overlaps or blanks. Because it is an NP-complete combinatorial optimization problem, various probabilistic and approximated approaches have been applied to ... ...

    Abstract In the polyomino puzzle, the aim is to fill a finite space using several polyomino pieces with no overlaps or blanks. Because it is an NP-complete combinatorial optimization problem, various probabilistic and approximated approaches have been applied to find solutions. Several previous studies embedded the polyomino puzzle in a QUBO problem, where the original objective function and constraints are transformed into the Hamiltonian function of the simulated Ising model. A solution to the puzzle is obtained by searching for a ground state of Hamiltonian by simulating the dynamics of the multiple-spin system. However, previous methods could solve only tiny polyomino puzzles considering a few combinations because their Hamiltonian designs were not efficient. We propose an improved Hamiltonian design that introduces new constraints and guiding terms to weakly encourage favorable spins and pairs in the early stages of computation. The proposed model solves the pentomino puzzle represented by approximately 2000 spins with >90% probability. Additionally, we extended the method to a generalized problem where each polyomino piece could be used zero or more times and solved it with approximately 100% probability. The proposed method also appeared to be effective for the 3D polycube puzzle, which is similar to applications in fragment-based drug discovery.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-28
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2014734-X
    ISSN 1099-4300 ; 1099-4300
    ISSN (online) 1099-4300
    ISSN 1099-4300
    DOI 10.3390/e24030354
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  4. Article ; Online: Effective Protein-Ligand Docking Strategy via Fragment Reuse and a Proof-of-Concept Implementation.

    Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Kubota, Rikuto / Yoshikawa, Yasushi / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    ACS omega

    2022  Volume 7, Issue 34, Page(s) 30265–30274

    Abstract: Virtual screening is a commonly used process to search for feasible drug candidates from a huge number of compounds during the early stages of drug design. As the compound database continues to expand to billions of entries or more, there remains an ... ...

    Abstract Virtual screening is a commonly used process to search for feasible drug candidates from a huge number of compounds during the early stages of drug design. As the compound database continues to expand to billions of entries or more, there remains an urgent need to accelerate the process of docking calculations. Reuse of calculation results is a possible way to accelerate the process. In this study, we first propose yet another virtual screening-oriented docking strategy by combining three factors, namely, compound decomposition, simplified fragment grid storing
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2470-1343
    ISSN (online) 2470-1343
    DOI 10.1021/acsomega.2c03470
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  5. Article ; Online: Lipid Composition Is Critical for Accurate Membrane Permeability Prediction of Cyclic Peptides by Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

    Sugita, Masatake / Fujie, Takuya / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Journal of chemical information and modeling

    2022  Volume 62, Issue 18, Page(s) 4549–4560

    Abstract: Cyclic peptides have attracted attention as a promising pharmaceutical modality due to their potential to selectively inhibit previously undruggable targets, such as intracellular protein-protein interactions. Poor membrane permeability is the biggest ... ...

    Abstract Cyclic peptides have attracted attention as a promising pharmaceutical modality due to their potential to selectively inhibit previously undruggable targets, such as intracellular protein-protein interactions. Poor membrane permeability is the biggest bottleneck hindering successful drug discovery based on cyclic peptides. Therefore, the development of computational methods that can predict membrane permeability and support elucidation of the membrane permeation mechanism of drug candidate peptides is much sought after. In this study, we developed a protocol to simulate the behavior in membrane permeation steps and estimate the membrane permeability of large cyclic peptides with more than or equal to 10 residues. This protocol requires the use of a more realistic membrane model than a single-lipid phospholipid bilayer. To select a membrane model, we first analyzed the effect of cholesterol concentration in the model membrane on the potential of mean force and hydrogen bonding networks along the direction perpendicular to the membrane surface as predicted by molecular dynamics simulations using cyclosporine A. These results suggest that a membrane model with 40 or 50 mol % cholesterol was suitable for predicting the permeation process. Subsequently, two types of membrane models containing 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-
    MeSH term(s) Cholesterol/chemistry ; Cyclosporine ; Lipid Bilayers/chemistry ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Peptides/chemistry ; Peptides, Cyclic/pharmacology ; Permeability ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Phosphatidylcholines/chemistry ; Phospholipids
    Chemical Substances Lipid Bilayers ; Peptides ; Peptides, Cyclic ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Phosphatidylcholines ; Phospholipids ; Cyclosporine (83HN0GTJ6D) ; Cholesterol (97C5T2UQ7J)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 190019-5
    ISSN 1549-960X ; 0095-2338
    ISSN (online) 1549-960X
    ISSN 0095-2338
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00931
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  6. Article ; Online: EXPRORER: Rational Cosolvent Set Construction Method for Cosolvent Molecular Dynamics Using Large-Scale Computation.

    Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Moriwaki, Yoshitaka / Terada, Tohru / Shimizu, Kentaro

    Journal of chemical information and modeling

    2021  Volume 61, Issue 6, Page(s) 2744–2753

    Abstract: Cosolvent molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations involve an MD simulation of a protein in the presence of explicit water molecules mixed with cosolvent molecules to perform hotspot detection, binding site identification, and binding energy estimation, ... ...

    Abstract Cosolvent molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations involve an MD simulation of a protein in the presence of explicit water molecules mixed with cosolvent molecules to perform hotspot detection, binding site identification, and binding energy estimation, while other existing methods (e.g., MixMD, SILCS, and MDmix) utilize small molecules that represent functional groups of compounds. However, the cosolvent selections employed in these methods differ and there are only a few cosolvents that are commonly used in these methods. In this study, we proposed a systematic method for constructing a set of cosolvents for drug discovery, termed the EXtended PRObes set construction by REpresentative Retrieval (EXPRORER). First, we extracted typical substructures from FDA-approved drugs, generated 138 cosolvent structures, and for each cosolvent molecule, we conducted CMD simulations to generate a spatial probability distribution map of cosolvent atoms (PMAP). Analyses of PMAP similarity revealed that a cosolvent pair with a PMAP similarity greater than 0.70-0.75 shared similar structural features. We present a method for the construction of a cosolvent subset that satisfies a similarity threshold for all cosolvents, and we tested the constructed sets for four proteins. To our knowledge, this is the first study to include a systematic proposal for cosolvent set construction, and thus, the EXPRORER cosolvents will provide deeper insights into ligand binding sites of various proteins.
    MeSH term(s) Binding Sites ; Ligands ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Proteins ; Solvents
    Chemical Substances Ligands ; Proteins ; Solvents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 190019-5
    ISSN 1549-960X ; 0095-2338
    ISSN (online) 1549-960X
    ISSN 0095-2338
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00134
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  7. Article ; Online: CycPeptMPDB: A Comprehensive Database of Membrane Permeability of Cyclic Peptides.

    Li, Jianan / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Sugita, Masatake / Fujie, Takuya / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Journal of chemical information and modeling

    2023  Volume 63, Issue 7, Page(s) 2240–2250

    Abstract: Recently, cyclic peptides have been considered breakthrough drugs because they can interact with "undruggable" targets such as intracellular protein-protein interactions. Membrane permeability is an essential indicator of oral bioavailability and ... ...

    Abstract Recently, cyclic peptides have been considered breakthrough drugs because they can interact with "undruggable" targets such as intracellular protein-protein interactions. Membrane permeability is an essential indicator of oral bioavailability and intracellular targeting, and the development of membrane-permeable peptides is a bottleneck in cyclic peptide drug discovery. Although many experimental data on membrane permeability of cyclic peptides have been reported, a comprehensive database is not yet available. A comprehensive membrane permeability database is essential for developing computational methods for cyclic peptide drug design. In this study, we constructed CycPeptMPDB, the first web-accessible database of cyclic peptide membrane permeability. We collected information on a total of 7334 cyclic peptides, including the structure and experimentally measured membrane permeability, from 45 published papers and 2 patents from pharmaceutical companies. To unambiguously represent cyclic peptides larger than small molecules, we used the hierarchical editing language for macromolecules notation to generate a uniform sequence representation of peptides. In addition to data storage, CycPeptMPDB provides several supporting functions such as online data visualization, data analysis, and downloading. CycPeptMPDB is expected to be a valuable platform to support membrane permeability research on cyclic peptides. CycPeptMPDB can be freely accessed at http://cycpeptmpdb.com.
    MeSH term(s) Peptides, Cyclic/chemistry ; Peptides/chemistry ; Drug Design ; Drug Discovery/methods ; Permeability ; Cell Membrane Permeability
    Chemical Substances Peptides, Cyclic ; Peptides
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 190019-5
    ISSN 1549-960X ; 0095-2338
    ISSN (online) 1549-960X
    ISSN 0095-2338
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01573
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  8. Article ; Online: Plasma protein binding prediction focusing on residue-level features and circularity of cyclic peptides by deep learning.

    Li, Jianan / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Yoshikawa, Yasushi / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

    2021  Volume 38, Issue 4, Page(s) 1110–1117

    Abstract: Motivation: In recent years, cyclic peptide drugs have been receiving increasing attention because they can target proteins that are difficult to be tackled by conventional small-molecule drugs or antibody drugs. Plasma protein binding rate (%PPB) is a ... ...

    Abstract Motivation: In recent years, cyclic peptide drugs have been receiving increasing attention because they can target proteins that are difficult to be tackled by conventional small-molecule drugs or antibody drugs. Plasma protein binding rate (%PPB) is a significant pharmacokinetic property of a compound in drug discovery and design. However, due to structural differences, previous computational prediction methods developed for small-molecule compounds cannot be successfully applied to cyclic peptides, and methods for predicting the PPB rate of cyclic peptides with high accuracy are not yet available.
    Results: Cyclic peptides are larger than small molecules, and their local structures have a considerable impact on PPB; thus, molecular descriptors expressing residue-level local features of cyclic peptides, instead of those expressing the entire molecule, as well as the circularity of the cyclic peptides should be considered. Therefore, we developed a prediction method named CycPeptPPB using deep learning that considers both factors. First, the macrocycle ring of cyclic peptides was decomposed residue by residue. The residue-based descriptors were arranged according to the sequence information of the cyclic peptide. Furthermore, the circular data augmentation method was used, and the circular convolution method CyclicConv was devised to express the cyclic structure. CycPeptPPB exhibited excellent performance, with mean absolute error (MAE) of 4.79% and correlation coefficient (R) of 0.92 for the public drug dataset, compared to the prediction performance of the existing PPB rate prediction software (MAE=15.08%, R=0.63).
    Availability and implementation: The data underlying this article are available in the online supplementary material. The source code of CycPeptPPB is available at https://github.com/akiyamalab/cycpeptppb.
    Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
    MeSH term(s) Peptides, Cyclic ; Deep Learning ; Blood Proteins ; Protein Binding ; Software
    Chemical Substances Peptides, Cyclic ; Blood Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1422668-6
    ISSN 1367-4811 ; 1367-4803
    ISSN (online) 1367-4811
    ISSN 1367-4803
    DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab726
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  9. Article: Improved Large-Scale Homology Search by Two-Step Seed Search Using Multiple Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets

    Takabatake, Kazuki / Izawa, Kazuki / Akikawa, Motohiro / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Genes. 2021 Sept. 21, v. 12, no. 9

    2021  

    Abstract: Metagenomic analysis, a technique used to comprehensively analyze microorganisms present in the environment, requires performing high-precision homology searches on large amounts of sequencing data, the size of which has increased dramatically with the ... ...

    Abstract Metagenomic analysis, a technique used to comprehensively analyze microorganisms present in the environment, requires performing high-precision homology searches on large amounts of sequencing data, the size of which has increased dramatically with the development of next-generation sequencing. NCBI BLAST is the most widely used software for performing homology searches, but its speed is insufficient for the throughput of current DNA sequencers. In this paper, we propose a new, high-performance homology search algorithm that employs a two-step seed search strategy using multiple reduced amino acid alphabets to identify highly similar subsequences. Additionally, we evaluated the validity of the proposed method against several existing tools. Our method was faster than any other existing program for ≤120,000 queries, while DIAMOND, an existing tool, was the fastest method for >120,000 queries.
    Keywords DNA ; algorithms ; amino acids ; computer software ; metagenomics
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-0921
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2527218-4
    ISSN 2073-4425
    ISSN 2073-4425
    DOI 10.3390/genes12091455
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  10. Article ; Online: Improved Large-Scale Homology Search by Two-Step Seed Search Using Multiple Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets.

    Takabatake, Kazuki / Izawa, Kazuki / Akikawa, Motohiro / Yanagisawa, Keisuke / Ohue, Masahito / Akiyama, Yutaka

    Genes

    2021  Volume 12, Issue 9

    Abstract: Metagenomic analysis, a technique used to comprehensively analyze microorganisms present in the environment, requires performing high-precision homology searches on large amounts of sequencing data, the size of which has increased dramatically with the ... ...

    Abstract Metagenomic analysis, a technique used to comprehensively analyze microorganisms present in the environment, requires performing high-precision homology searches on large amounts of sequencing data, the size of which has increased dramatically with the development of next-generation sequencing. NCBI BLAST is the most widely used software for performing homology searches, but its speed is insufficient for the throughput of current DNA sequencers. In this paper, we propose a new, high-performance homology search algorithm that employs a two-step seed search strategy using multiple reduced amino acid alphabets to identify highly similar subsequences. Additionally, we evaluated the validity of the proposed method against several existing tools. Our method was faster than any other existing program for ≤120,000 queries, while DIAMOND, an existing tool, was the fastest method for >120,000 queries.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-21
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2527218-4
    ISSN 2073-4425 ; 2073-4425
    ISSN (online) 2073-4425
    ISSN 2073-4425
    DOI 10.3390/genes12091455
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