title: Prediction of Antibiotic Interactions Using Descriptors Derived from Molecular Structure.
abstract: Combination antibiotic therapies are clinically important in the fight against bacterial infections. However, the search space of drug combinations is large, making the identification of effective combinations a challenging task. Here, we present a computational framework that uses substructure profiles derived from the molecular structures of drugs and predicts antibiotic interactions. Using a previously published data set of 153 drug pairs, we showed that substructure profiles are useful in predicting synergy. We experimentally measured the interaction of 123 new drug pairs, as a prospective validation set for our approach, and identified 37 new synergistic pairs. Of the 12 pairs predicted to be synergistic, 10 were experimentally validated, corresponding to a 2.8-fold enrichment. Having thus validated our methodology, we produced a compendium of interaction predictions for all pairwise combinations among 100 antibiotics. Our methodology can make reliable antibiotic interaction predictions for any antibiotic pair within the applicability domain of the model since it solely requires chemical structures as an input.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.affiliation: Unilever Research and Development , Port Sunlight, Wirral CH63 3JW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stott
authors.affiliation: Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ashenden
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States.
authors.forename: Zohar B
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University , Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.
authors.forename: Idil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karakoc
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University , Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meral
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University , Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nurdan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kuru
authors.affiliation: Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6683-7546
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bender
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University , Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey.|Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts 02111, United States.|Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cokol
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004347:Drug Interactions; D015394:Molecular Structure
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents