Heuristic energy-based cyclic peptide design

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Publicat a:bioRxiv (Mar 1, 2025)
Autor principal: Zhu, Qiyao
Altres autors: Vikram Khipple Mulligan, Shasha, Dennis E
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245 1 |a Heuristic energy-based cyclic peptide design 
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513 |a Working Paper 
520 3 |a Rational computational design is crucial to the pursuit of novel drugs and therapeutic agents. Meso-scale cyclic peptides, which consist of 7-40 amino acid residues, are of particular interest due to their conformational rigidity, binding specificity, degradation resistance, and potential cell permeability. Because there are few natural cyclic peptides, de novo design involving non-canonical amino acids is a potentially useful goal. Here, we develop an efficient pipeline (CyclicChamp) for cyclic peptide design. After converting the cyclic constraint into an error function, we employ a variant of simulated annealing to search for low-energy peptide backbones while maintaining peptide closure. Compared to the previous random sampling approach, which was capable of sampling conformations of cyclic peptides of up to 14 residues, our method both greatly accelerates the computation speed for sampling conformations of small macrocycles (ca. 7 residues), and addresses the high-dimensionality challenge that large macrocycle designs often encounter. As a result, CyclicChamp makes conformational sampling tractable for 15- to 24-residue cyclic peptides, thus permitting the design of macrocycles in this size range. Microsecond-length molecular dynamics simulations on the resulting 15, 20, and 24 amino acid cyclic designs identify trajectories with kinetic stability. To test their thermodynamic stability, we perform additional replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations and generate free energy surfaces. Three 15-residue designs, one 20-residue and one 24-residue design emerge as promising candidates.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Footnotes* Increased molecular dynamics simulations for computational validation of our designs. Structural predictions of available cyclic peptides in the Protein Data Bank as extra validation of our sampling algorithm.* https://github.com/qiyaozhu/CyclicPeptide 
653 |a Free energy 
653 |a Simulation 
653 |a Computer applications 
653 |a Peptides 
653 |a Amino acids 
653 |a Drug development 
653 |a Statistical sampling 
653 |a Cell permeability 
700 1 |a Vikram Khipple Mulligan 
700 1 |a Shasha, Dennis E 
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