Abstract
Machine learning (ML), an emerging field in drug design, has the potential to predict in silico toxicity, shape-based analysis of inhibitors, scoring function (SF) etc. In the present study, a homology model, docking protocol, and a dedicated SF have been developed to identify the inhibitors of horse butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) enzyme. Horse BChE enzyme has homology with human BChE and is a substitute for the screening of in vitro inhibitors. The developed homology model was validated and the active site residues were identified from Cavityplus to generate grid box for docking. The validation of docking involved comparison of interactions of ligands co-crystallised with human BChE and the docked poses of the corresponding ligands with horse BChE. A high degree of similarity in the interaction profiles of generated poses validated the docking protocol. Scoring of ligands was further validated by docking with known BChE inhibitors. The binding energies obtained from SF was correlated with IC50 values of inhibitors through classification and regression-based methods, which indicated poor predictivity of native SF. Therefore, protein-ligand binding energy, interaction profile, and ligand descriptors were used to develop and validate the classification and regression-based models. The validated extra tree binary classifier, random forest and extra tree regression-based models were compiled as a protein-ligand SF and were made available to the users through web application and python library. ML models exhibited improved area under the curve for ROC and good correlation between the predicted and observed IC50 values, than the Autodock SF. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
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