Matched Peptides: Tuning Matched Molecular Pair Analysis for Biopharmaceutical Applications.
Biopharmaceuticals hold great promise for the future of drug discovery. Nevertheless, rational drug design strategies are mainly focused on the discovery of small synthetic molecules. Herein we present matched peptides, an innovative analysis technique for biological data related to peptide and protein sequences. It represents an extension of matched molecular pair analysis toward macromolecular sequence data and allows quantitative predictions of the effect of single amino acid substitutions on the basis of statistical data on known transformations. We demonstrate the application of matched peptides to a data set of major histocompatibility complex class II peptide ligands and discuss the trends captured with respect to classical quantitative structure-activity relationship approaches as well as structural aspects of the investigated protein-peptide interface. We expect our novel readily interpretable tool at the interface of cheminformatics and bioinformatics to support the rational design of biopharmaceuticals and give directions for further development of the presented methodology.
Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck , Innrain 82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Julian E
JE
Fuchs
Research Germany/Lead Identification and Optimization Support, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG , Birkendorfer Straße 65, 88397 Biberach an der Riss, Germany.
Bernd
B
Wellenzohn
Research Germany/Lead Identification and Optimization Support, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG , Birkendorfer Straße 65, 88397 Biberach an der Riss, Germany.
Nils
N
Weskamp
Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck , Innrain 82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Klaus R
KR
Liedl
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods; D015798:HLA-DR1 Antigen / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008024:Ligands; D062105:Molecular Docking Simulation; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011485:Protein Binding
D015798:HLA-DR1 Antigen; D008024:Ligands; D010455:Peptides