CACHE Challenge #1: Targeting the WDR Domain of LRRK2, A Parkinson’s Disease Associated Protein

Fengling Li, Suzanne Ackloo, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Fuqiang Ban, Christopher J. Barden, Hartmut Beck, Jan Beránek, Francois Berenger, Albina Bolotokova, Guillaume Bret, Marko Breznik, Emanuele Carosati, Irene Chau, Yu Chen, Artem Cherkasov, Dennis Della Corte, Katrin Denzinger, Aiping Dong, Sorin Draga, Ian DunnKristina Edfeldt, Aled Edwards, Merveille Eguida, Paul Eisenhuth, Lukas Friedrich, Alexander Fuerll, Spencer S. Gardiner, Francesco Gentile, Pegah Ghiabi, Elisa Gibson, Marta Glavatskikh, Christoph Gorgulla, Judith Guenther, Anders Gunnarsson, Filipp Gusev, Evgeny Gutkin, Levon Halabelian, Rachel J. Harding, Alexander Hillisch, Laurent Hoffer, Anders Hogner, Scott Houliston, John J. Irwin, Olexandr Isayev, Aleksandra Ivanova, Celien Jacquemard, Austin J. Jarrett, Jan H. Jensen, Dmitri Kireev, Julian Kleber, S. Benjamin Koby, David Koes, Ashutosh Kumar, Maria G. Kurnikova, Alina Kutlushina, Uta Lessel, Fabian Liessmann, Sijie Liu, Wei Lu, Jens Meiler, Akhila Mettu, Guzel Minibaeva, Rocco Moretti, Connor J. Morris, Chamali Narangoda, Theresa Noonan, Leon Obendorf, Szymon Pach, Amit Pandit, Sumera Perveen, Gennady Poda, Pavel Polishchuk, Kristina Puls, Vera Pütter, Didier Rognan, Dylan Roskams-Edris, Christina Schindler, François Sindt, Vojtěch Spiwok, Casper Steinmann, Rick L. Stevens, Valerij Talagayev, Damon Tingey, Oanh Vu, W. Patrick Walters, Xiaowen Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Gerhard Wolber, Clemens Alexander Wolf, Lars Wortmann, Hong Zeng, Carlos A. Zepeda, Kam Y.J. Zhang, Jixian Zhang, Shuangjia Zheng, Matthieu Schapira*

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Abstract

The CACHE challenges are a series of prospective benchmarking exercises to evaluate progress in the field of computational hit-finding. Here we report the results of the inaugural CACHE challenge in which 23 computational teams each selected up to 100 commercially available compounds that they predicted would bind to the WDR domain of the Parkinson’s disease target LRRK2, a domain with no known ligand and only an apo structure in the PDB. The lack of known binding data and presumably low druggability of the target is a challenge to computational hit finding methods. Of the 1955 molecules predicted by participants in Round 1 of the challenge, 73 were found to bind to LRRK2 in an SPR assay with a KD lower than 150 μM. These 73 molecules were advanced to the Round 2 hit expansion phase, where computational teams each selected up to 50 analogs. Binding was observed in two orthogonal assays for seven chemically diverse series, with affinities ranging from 18 to 140 μM. The seven successful computational workflows varied in their screening strategies and techniques. Three used molecular dynamics to produce a conformational ensemble of the targeted site, three included a fragment docking step, three implemented a generative design strategy and five used one or more deep learning steps. CACHE #1 reflects a highly exploratory phase in computational drug design where participants adopted strikingly diverging screening strategies. Machine learning-accelerated methods achieved similar results to brute force (e.g., exhaustive) docking. First-in-class, experimentally confirmed compounds were rare and weakly potent, indicating that recent advances are not sufficient to effectively address challenging targets.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Vol/bind64
Udgave nummer22
Sider (fra-til)8521-8536
Antal sider16
ISSN1549-9596
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 25 nov. 2024

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