扩大的数据集和创新的适用性域特征化使ML模型能够可靠地弥合hERG绑定数据差距在各种化学品中的数据差距
Yuxuan Zhang1, Yuwei Liu1, Wenjia Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Chemical research in toxicology
|August 15, 2025
概括
开发准确的in silico模型来预测与人类以太-to-go-go相关基因 (hERG) 通道的化学结合至关重要. 这项研究提出了一种具有增强适用性领域的新型机器学习方法,确定了超过5,000种潜在的hERG阻断剂.
科学领域:
- 计算毒理学计算毒理学
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
- 药物化学 药物化学
背景情况:
- 化学物质可以通过与hERG通道的结合来诱导心脏毒性.
- 由于大量的化学物质,需要in silico模型来预测hERG结合亲和力.
- 以前的模型受到小化学空间和狭窄的应用领域的限制.
研究的目的:
- 开发精确的机器学习模型来预测hERG结合亲和力.
- 通过一种新的结构-活动景观 (SAL) 方法来定义强大的适用性领域.
- 为了选大型化学图书馆的潜在hERG阻断剂.
主要方法:
- 构建一个扩展的,多样化的化学数据集,用于hERG结合亲和力.
- 使用增强数据集的机器学习模型的开发.
- 通过基于结构-活动景观 (SAL) 的表征 (ADSAL) 定义适用性领域 (ADs).
- 最优模型的外部验证.
主要成果:
- 最佳模型在外部验证集上实现了0.89的确定系数 (R2).
- ADSAL方法为模型适用性提供了强有力的约束.
- 超过10万种化学物质被选,确定了超过5000种潜在的hERG抑制剂.
- 开发的模型显著超过了以前的预测模型.
结论:
- 开发的机器学习模型,受ADSAL的约束,是预测hERG结合亲和力的高效可靠工具.
- 这种方法有效地解决了hERG介导的心脏毒性数据缺口.
- 这些发现支持了明智的化学品管理和风险评估.
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