DOGS: reaction-driven de novo design of bioactive compounds

  • We present a computational method for the reaction-based de novo design of drug-like molecules. The software DOGS (Design of Genuine Structures) features a ligand-based strategy for automated ‘in silico’ assembly of potentially novel bioactive compounds. The quality of the designed compounds is assessed by a graph kernel method measuring their similarity to known bioactive reference ligands in terms of structural and pharmacophoric features. We implemented a deterministic compound construction procedure that explicitly considers compound synthesizability, based on a compilation of 25'144 readily available synthetic building blocks and 58 established reaction principles. This enables the software to suggest a synthesis route for each designed compound. Two prospective case studies are presented together with details on the algorithm and its implementation. De novo designed ligand candidates for the human histamine H4 receptor and γ-secretase were synthesized as suggested by the software. The computational approach proved to be suitable for scaffold-hopping from known ligands to novel chemotypes, and for generating bioactive molecules with drug-like properties.

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Author:Markus Hartenfeller, Heiko Zettl, Miriam Walter, Matthias Rupp, Felix Reisen, Ewgenij ProschakORCiDGND, Sascha Weggen, Holger StarkORCiDGND, Gisbert SchneiderORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-246179
DOI:https://doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002380
ISSN:1553-7358
ISSN:1553-734X
Parent Title (English):PLoS Computational Biology
Publisher:Public Library of Science
Place of publication:San Francisco, Calif.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2012/04/02
Date of first Publication:2012/02/16
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/04/02
Volume:8
Issue:2: e1002380
Page Number:12
HeBIS-PPN:306612127
Institutes:Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie / Biochemie und Chemie
Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie / Pharmazie
Fachübergreifende Einrichtungen / Zentrum für Arzneimittelforschung, Entwicklung und Sicherheit
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0