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Fragment Hotspot Maps: A CSD-derived Method for Hotspot identification
Chris Radoux
www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk [email protected]
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Introduction – Hotspots
• Strongly attractive to organic molecules
– Organic molecules cluster at hotspots in multiple solvent crystal structures
• Capable of binding fragments
– Overcome limited binding interface
• Disproportionately large contribution to binding
– Analogous to PPIs
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Hotspots and Fragments
• Chosen definition:
– “The minimum binding site that will bind a fragment, maintaining the fragment binding position once it has been elaborated”
• Fragment crystal structures to be used as a gold standard
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Hotspots, Unhappy Waters and Fragments
• Unhappy waters (Young 2007):
– “…a strongly hydrophobic cavity that encloses multiple water molecules…”
– “[or] one to three hydrogen bonds with the protein by the ligand, where the remainder of the local environment is hydrophobically enclosed”
• Fragments (Ichihara 2014):
– Using WaterMap
– “fragment hits tend to displace water molecules with notably unfavorableexcess entropies—configurationally constrained water molecules”
– “likely to be caused by confinement in hydrophobic pockets or a combination of hydrophobic enclosure with hydrogen bonds.”
• Hotspots (Kozakov 2015):
– “….concave topology combined with a mosaic-like pattern of hydrophobic and polar functionality”
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Hotspots, Unhappy Waters and Fragments
• Unhappy waters (Young 2007):
– “…a strongly hydrophobic cavity that encloses multiple water molecules…”
– “[or] one to three hydrogen bonds with the protein by the ligand, where the remainder of the local environment is hydrophobically enclosed”
• Fragments (Ichihara 2014):
– Using WaterMap
– “fragment hits tend to displace water molecules with notably unfavorableexcess entropies—configurationally constrained water molecules”
– “likely to be caused by confinement in hydrophobic pockets or a combination of hydrophobic enclosure with hydrogen bonds.”
• Hotspots (Kozakov 2015):
– “….concave topology combined with a mosaic-like pattern of hydrophobic and polar functionality”
“…. confinement in hydrophobic pockets or a
combination of hydrophobic enclosure with
hydrogen bonds”
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Fragment Hotspot Maps
• Look for the environments that cause Hotspots
– Knowledge-based
– Faster calculations
• Aims:
– Start from a global search of an apo protein
– Find fragment binding sites
– Predict the interactions made by fragments
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Representing Hotspot Environments
• “Hydrogen bonds plus hydrophobic enclosure”
• Or just “Hydrophobic enclosure”
– Use molecular probes that reflect hotspot environments
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Atomic Propensities from SuperStar
1. M. L. Verdonk, J. C. Cole and R. Taylor, J. Mol. Biol., 289, 1093-1108, 1999
• SuperStar1 used to generate atomic propensities
– Red: Acceptor
– Blue: Donor
– Yellow: Hydrophobe
• Each grid point contains
– A propensity for each probe type
– A buriedness score
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Introducing Enclosure
• Fragment Hotspot Map method from this point onward
• “Hydrogen bonds plus hydrophobic enclosure”
• Multiply each propensity by the buriedness to represent enclosure
– Buriedness calculated using LIGSITE1
• Weighted propensity
1. Hendlich, M.; Rippmann, F.; Barnickel, G. J. Mol. Graph. Model. 1997, 15 (6), 359–363, 389
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Sampling Example: Acceptor probe
• Translate probe to acceptor grid points with score >=17
• 2000 rotations
• Weighted propensity assigned to each atom
• Probe score = Geometric mean of atom scores
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Creating Fragment Hotspot Maps
• Probe scores assigned to nearest grid point
• High scoring regions:
– High propensity for the polar atom (if applicable)
– Surrounding environment is hydrophobic
– Environment is enclosed
• Probe size eliminates pockets too small for binding
• 5-10 minutes on a desktop
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 0
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 10
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 11
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 12
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 13
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 14
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 15
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 16
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 17
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 18
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Displaying the Output
Contoured at: 19
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Validation
• Dataset previously published by Ichihara and colleagues1
– Set of fragment- and lead-bound protein crystal structures
– Fragment binding position maintained in lead
• Perfect dataset for testing hotspot prediction
“The minimum binding site that
will bind a fragment, maintaining
the fragment binding position
once it has been elaborated”
1. O. Ichihara, Y. Shimada and D. Yoshidome, ChemMedChem, 2014, 9, 2708–17.
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Validation
• 21 fragment and lead-bound protein crystal structures
• We added corresponding apostructures
• Maps calculated for apo structures
• Scores assigned to ligand atoms from their corresponding maps
C. J. Radoux, T. S. G. Olsson, W. R. Pitt, C. R. Groom and T. L. Blundell, J. Med. Chem., 2016, 59, 4314–4325.
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Results
• Across whole dataset
• Fragment atoms consistently in the highest scoring regions
• Beyond binding site prediction
– Where can fragmentsbind?
– Which interactions will the fragments make?
Fragment Lead
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Current Limitation
• No charged probes, charged interactions often missed
– Previously implemented, but gave unsatisfactory results
– Polar probes do a poor job of predicting these interactions
• Two types of hotspot?
– Ichihara1 and colleagues suggested fragments displace two types of unhappy water
• Looking into handling charged probes differently
1. O. Ichihara, Y. Shimada and D. Yoshidome, ChemMedChem, 2014, 9, 2708–17.
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Ligandability Assessment
• Pocket or subpocketligandability assessment
– Scores comparable between proteins
– Calibrated using fragment scores
– 17+ Strong hotspot
– 14-17 May be able to bind fragments
– <14 Unlikely to lead to fragment binding
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Integration with CSD Python API
• Hotspot calculations run from a ccdc protein object or a PBD file
• Returned results object has functions for using the hotspot maps:
– Score ligand
– Score protein
– Write pharmacophore file
– Assign protein H bond constraints for GOLD
– Output PyMOL file
from fragment_hotspots import Hotspots
# Calculate hotspots
h = Hotspots()
results = h.from_file('1hcl.pdb', smooth=True)
# Write out a CrossMiner pharmacophore file
results.write_pharmacophore_file(output_format='CrossMiner')
# Visualise with PyMOL
results.output_pymol_file(pharmacophores=True)
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Application to Docking with GOLD
• Docking S-adenosylhomocysteine(SAH) to mixed lineage leukaemia (mll1)
• Difficult to dock
– 11 non-terminal rotatable bonds
– Partially open pocket
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Application to Docking with GOLD
• Histidine N gives highest scoring interaction
• Adding constraint leads to correct result
from fragment_hotspots import Hotspots
from ccdc_internal.docking import Docker
from ccdc.protein import Protein
from ccdc import io
h = Hotspots()
prot = Protein.from_file('2w5y_protein_prepared.mol2')
native_mol = io.MoleculeReader('SAH_native.mol2')[0]
# Calculate hotspots
hotspot_results = h.from_protein(prot)
# Set up docking
s = Docker.Settings()
s.add_protein_file('2w5y_protein_prepared.mol2')
s.add_ligand_file('SAH_native.mol2', ndocks=15)
s.reference_ligand_file = 'SAH_native.mol2'
s.binding_site = s.BindingSiteFromLigand(prot, native_mol)
# Add constraints to Docker.settings object
hotspot_results.predict_protein_hbond_constraints(s)
# Run docking
docker = Docker(settings=s)
results = docker.dock()
hotspot_results.output_pymol_file(prot_file=prot_file)
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Hotspot Derived Pharmacophores
• Discrete hotspot pharmacophores
– Convert maps into discrete “fragment sized” hotspots
– Represent hotspot as a pharmacophore
– Search for molecules that match pharmacophore
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Guiding Hit to Lead
A. W. Hung, H. L. Silvestre, S. Wen, A. Ciulli, T. L. Blundell and C. Abell, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 2009, 48, 8452–6.
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Guiding Hit to Lead
A. W. Hung, H. L. Silvestre, S. Wen, G. P. C. George, J. Boland, T. L. Blundell, A. Ciulli and C. Abell, ChemMedChem, 2016, 11, 38–42.
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MD and Hotspots
• “What about flexibility?”
• Example Bcl-xl
– Able to process 6000 structures in ~48 hours
• Visualise dynamic maps
• Summary maps over trajectory
– Average
– Maximum
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MD and Hotspots
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Summary
• Fragment Hotspot Maps can add knowledge at several stages of the early drug discovery process
• Target tractability assessment
– Presence of a hotspot indicates a ligandable target
– Evaluate suitability of a pocket for fragment-based approaches
• Hit ID
– Identification important interactions can be used to guide docking, or other virtual screening method.
• Hit to lead
– Can be used as a visual guide to direct medicinal chemists
– Can highlight sub optimal interactions
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Acknowledgements
• Supervisors
– Colin Groom (CCDC)
– Will Pitt (UCB)
– Tom Blundell (Biochemistry)
• Blundell group
• CCDC Life sciences team
• UCB
• http://fragment-hotspot-maps.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/