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Title: | An Innovative Sequence-to-Structure-Based Approach to Drug Resistance Interpretation and Prediction: The Use of Molecular Interaction Fields to Detect HIV-1 Protease Binding-Site Dissimilarities | Authors: | Alves, Nuno G. Mata, Ana I. Luís, João P. Brito, Rui M. M. Simões, Carlos J. V. |
Keywords: | drug resistance prediction; Molecular Interaction Fields; sequence-to-structure algorithm; binding-site dissimilarities; HIV-1 protease | Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | Frontiers Media S.A. | Project: | UID/QUI/00313/2019 MedChemTrain Ph.D. programme (PD/00147/2013) in Medicinal Chemistry—Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education (MCTES), Portugal— Ph.D. fellowships PD/BD/135287/2017, PD/BD/135289/2017 and PD/BD/135292/2017 |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Frontiers in Chemistry | Volume: | 8 | Abstract: | In silico methodologies have opened new avenues of research to understanding and predicting drug resistance, a pressing health issue that keeps rising at alarming pace. Sequence-based interpretation systems are routinely applied in clinical context in an attempt to predict mutation-based drug resistance and thus aid the choice of the most adequate antibiotic and antiviral therapy. An important limitation of approaches based on genotypic data exclusively is that mutations are not considered in the context of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the target. Structure-based in silico methodologies are inherently more suitable to interpreting and predicting the impact of mutations on target-drug interactions, at the cost of higher computational and time demands when compared with sequence-based approaches. Herein, we present a fast, computationally inexpensive, sequence-to-structure-based approach to drug resistance prediction, which makes use of 3D protein structures encoded by input target sequences to draw binding-site comparisons with susceptible templates. Rather than performing atom-by-atom comparisons between input target and template structures, our workflow generates and compares Molecular Interaction Fields (MIFs) that map the areas of energetically favorable interactions between several chemical probe types and the target binding site. Quantitative, pairwise dissimilarity measurements between the target and the template binding sites are thus produced. The method is particularly suited to understanding changes to the 3D structure and the physicochemical environment introduced by mutations into the target binding site. Furthermore, the workflow relies exclusively on freeware, making it accessible to anyone. Using four datasets of known HIV-1 protease sequences as a case-study, we show that our approach is capable of correctly classifying resistant and susceptible sequences given as input. Guided by ROC curve analyses, we fined-tuned a dissimilarity threshold of classification that results in remarkable discriminatory performance (accuracy ≈ ROC AUC ≈ 0.99), illustrating the high potential of sequence-to-structure-, MIF-based approaches in the context of drug resistance prediction. We discuss the complementarity of the proposed methodology to existing prediction algorithms based on genotypic data. The present work represents a new step toward a more comprehensive and structurally-informed interpretation of the impact of genetic variability on the response to HIV-1 therapies. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106105 | ISSN: | 2296-2646 | DOI: | 10.3389/fchem.2020.00243 | Rights: | openAccess |
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