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Development of Robust Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Models for CYP2C9, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4 Catalysis and Inhibition Eric Gonzalez1, Sankalp Jain1, Pranav Shah1, Nao Torimoto-Katori, Alexey Zakharov, Ð/C19/C21ac-Trung Nguy~^en, Srilatha Sakamuru, Ruili Huang, Menghang Xia, R. Scott Obach, Cornelis E. C. A. Hop, Anton Simeonov, and Xin Xu Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Rockville, Maryland (E. G., S. J., P. S., N. T.-K., A. Z., D.-T. N., S. S., R. H., M. X. A. S., X. X. ); Discovery Technology Laboratories, Sohyaku. Innovative Research Division, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Yokohama-shi, Japan (N. T.-K. ); Pfizer Inc. Department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer, Groton, Connecticut (R. S. O. ); and Genentech Inc. Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Genentech Inc., San Francisco, California (C. E. C. A. H. ) Received November 24, 2020; accepted June 17, 2021 ABSTRACT Cytochrome P450 enzymes are responsible for the metabolism of >75% of marketed drugs, making it essential to identify the contribu-tions of individual cytochromes P450 to the total clearance of a new candidate drug. Overreliance on one cytochrome P450 for clearance levies a high risk of drug-drug interactions; and considering that sev-eral human cytochrome P450 enzymes are polymorphic, it can also lead to highly variable pharmacokinetics in the clinic. Thus, it would be advantageous to understand the likelihood of new chemical entities tointeract with the major cytochrome P450 enzymes at an early stage inthe drug discovery process. Typical screening assays using human liver microsomes do not provide sufficient information to distinguish the specific cytochromes P450 responsible for clearance. In thisregard, we experimentally assessed the metabolic stability of /C245000 compounds for the three most prominent xenobiotic metabolizinghuman cytochromes P450, i. e., CYP2C9, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4, andused the data sets to develop quantitative structure-activity relation-ship models for the prediction of high-clearance substrates for these enzymes. Screening library included the NCATS Pharmaceutical Col-lection, comprising clinically approved low-molecular-weight com-pounds, and an annotated library consisting of drug-like compounds. To identify inhibitors, the library was screened against a lumines-cence-based cytochrome P450 inhibition assay; and thr ough cross referencing hits from the two assays, we were able to distinguish sub-strates and inhibitors of these enzymes. The best substrate and inhibi-tor models (balanced accuracies /C240. 7), as well as the data used to develop these models, have been made publicly available (https:// opendata. ncats. nih. gov/adme) to advance drug discovery across all research groups. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT In drug discovery and development, drug candidates with indis-criminate cytochrome P450 metabolic profiles are consideredadvantageous, since they provide less risk of potential issues with cytochrome P450 polymorphisms and drug-drug interactions. This study developed robust substrate and inhibitor quantitative struc-ture-activity relationship models for the three major xenobiotic metabolizing cytochromes P450, i. e., CYP2C9, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4. The use of these models early in drug discovery willenable project teams to strategize or pivot when necessary, thereby accelerating drug discovery research. Introduction Hepatic biotransformation of small-molecule therapeutics by cyto-chrome P450 enzymes continues to be the predominant route of meta-bolic clearance, highly impacting their bioavailability and systemicexposure. An in-depth analysis of clearance mechanisms is important because it will help predict human pharmacokinetics, indicate theprobability of drug-drug interactions (DDI), and identify the potential for pharmacokinetic variability due to race, sex, age, and genetic poly-morphisms (Roden and George, 2002; Sansone-Parsons et al., 2007). In this regard, it is necessary to determine the contributions of individualcytochromes P450 to the total clearance of a compound. When com-pounds have a high fraction metabolized by one enzyme, e. g., CYP2C9 for S-warfarin (Kaminsky and Zhang, 1997), variability in enzyme activity or expression can result in unanticipated low clearance or, con-versely, undergo ultrarapid metabolism, a known issue for CYP2D6gene variants (Ingelman-Sundberg, 2005). Inhibitors of an enzyme can lead to elevated circulatory concentrations —and toxicity, depending on the therapeutic index of the compound —with ensuing black box warn-ings on the drug label or withdrawal from the market (Layton et al.,2003; Di, 2017). Conversely, enzyme induction can diminish the This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health [National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences]. The authors declare no con flict of interest. 1E. G., S. J., and P. S. contributed equally to this work. https://doi. org/10. 1124/dmd. 120. 000320. ABBREVIATIONS: AD, applicability domain; ADMET, absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicity; BACC, balanced accuracy; BLQ, below limit of quantitation; BSA, bovine serum albumin; DNN, deep neural networks; FRD, Flying Reagent Dispenser; HLM, human liver microsome; INC, inconclusive; IS, internal standard; MCC, Matthews correlation coef ficient; NCATS, National Center for Advancing Transla-tional Sciences; N/F, not found; NPC, NCATS Pharmaceutical Collection; q HTS, quantitative High-Throughput Screening; QSAR, quantitative structure-activity relationship; RT, room temperature; SB, strati fied bagging; t1/2, half-life; TPSA, topological polar surface area. 8221521-009X/49/9/822-832$35. 00 https://doi. org/10. 1124/dmd. 120. 000320 DRUGMETABOLISM AND DISPOSITION Drug Metab Dispos 49:822-832, September 2021 U. S. Government work not protected by U. S. copyrighthttp://dmd. aspetjournals. org/content/suppl/2021/06/24/dmd. 120. 000320. 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efficacy of a compound when the increased expression and activity leads to rapid clearance. To address these concerns, compounds are sought that possess a well distributed metabolism pro file across multiple enzymes and clearance mechanisms (Zientek and Youdim, 2015). The current standard for preliminary estimation of the human meta-bolic stability of a compound at the discovery stage is the in vitro clear-ance assay using human liver microsomes (HLMs), which are enrichedwith various xenobiotic metabolizing cytochromes P450, including 1A2, 2C9, 2C19, 2D6, and 3A4, among others. However, a simple HLM clearance assay, which monitors the depletion of a compoundover time, does not identify the cytochromes P450 responsible for the metabolism. Alternatively, assessing the clearance with individual enzymes for each new chemical entity would be an inef ficient and costly approach, as medicinal chemists generate a multitude of com-pounds in their exploration of chemical space to develop novel therapies. One focus at the National Center for Advancing Translational Scien-ces (NCATS) is to create and disseminate in silico tools that facilitateand accelerate translati onal research. To this end, NCATS, with support from the International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in Phar-maceutical Development, has endeavored to develop quantitative struc-ture-activity relationship (QSAR) models capable of predicting thespecific cytochrome P450 enzyme(s) responsible for clearance of new, unexplored compounds. Although predictive QSAR models for individ-ual enzymes are commercially available, those highly regarded can becostly, thereby limiting this resource to the broader scienti ficc o m m u-nity, which includes small companies, academic research institutes, andnonprofi t patient-focused organizations. Furthermore, commercial mod-els are often developed using small training data sets, and data are typi-cally sourced from literature, which can introduce error through variability in methods from different laboratories with inconsistent expertise and foci. Alternatively, the robust quantitative high-throughput screening (q HTS) technologies at NCATS have enabled production ofsizable databases from standardized protocols (Veith et al., 2009; Shah et al., 2016), which is the foundation for developing predictive QSAR models with improved accuracy. Here, we report the in vitro activities of /C245000 low-molecular-weight compounds with three major cytochrome P450 enzymes, i. e., CYP2C9,CYP2D6, and CYP3A4, which can be attributed with /C2475% of total cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of clinical drugs (Guengerich, 2015). We focused on two primary cytochrome P450 endpoints used inthe discovery stage, i. e., clearance and inhibition. The clearance assaytypically used to assess the metabolic stability of a compound is depen-dent on complete enzymatic turnover, a process consisting of nine steps in the canonical cytochrome P450 oxidation reaction (Guengerich,2018). Although informative, the knowledge garnered from this assay is limited to substrates, therefore obliging further studies to identify inhibi-tors. Notably, competitive inhibition assays that rely on probe conver-sion, such as P450-Glo, are alone unable to distinguish between substrates and inhibitors, given that both types of ligands can generate similar readouts through various cytochrome P450 enzyme bindingmechanisms (Fig. 1B). By crossreferencing the compounds that exhibit probe inhibition with those that were metabolized, we identi fied the most probable inhibitors from our data sets. The successful application of machine-learning approaches to develop predictive QSAR models for absorption, distribution, metabo-lism, elimination, and toxicity (ADMET) properties is well recognized(Kearnes et al., preprint, DOI: https://arxiv. org/abs/1606. 08793; Wenzel et al., 2019) and is the impetus for the work reported herein. Using in-house-generated data sets, we developed conventional QSAR models,as well as multitask models, to predict cytochrome P450 substrates and inhibitors. Most importantly, the training data sets, and models with thegreatest balanced accuracy, have been published (https://opendata. ncats. nih. gov/adme) to bene fit and accelerate drug discovery across all research groups. Material and Methods P450-Glo assay kits were purchased from Promega Corporation (Madison, WI) for CYP3A4 (V9910), CYP2C9 (V9790), and CYP2D6 (V9890). NADPH Regenerating Solution A (catalog number 451220) and B (catalog number 451200), human CYP3A4 (456202), CYP2C9 (456258), and CYP2D6 (456217) Supersomes were purchased from Corning Life Sciences (Corning, NY). Ketoco-nazole, sulfaphenazole, quinidine, and albendazole were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). Compound Library. The/C245000 compound library used for this publication encompasses the NCATS Pharmaceutical Collection (NPC) (Huang et al., 2011) and an annotated NCATS library. The NPC library contains /C242800 compounds that have been approved for clinical use by United States, Canadian, Japanese, and European drug regulatory authorities. The NCATS annotated library com-prises of /C242200 diverse drug-like molecules. This annotated library consists of mostly investigational compounds that represent diverse target classes and dis-ease areas. This combined library ( /C245000 compounds) will henceforth be referred to as the NCATS-ADME library. High-Throughput Metabolic Stability (Clearance) Assays. The substrate depletion assay was employed to determine metabolic stability using an estab-lished mid-density (384-well format) protocol (Shah et al., 2016). The work flow included a robotic system for incubation and sample cleanup coupled with an automated ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry method for sample analysis. Brie fly, each 110 ml reaction mixture consisted of 1 m M test article, supersomes, and an NADPH regenerating system in 100 m M phosphate buffer at p H 7. 4. The speci fic protein and enzyme concen-trations, as well as the control compounds used, are listed in Table 1. Incubationswere conducted at 37 /C14C, with mixing, and reaction aliquots were quenched at 0, 5, 10, 15, 30, and 60 minutes by addition of cold acetonitrile with internal stan-dard (IS), i. e., albendazole. Centrifugation at 3000 g,4/C14C, for 20 minutes was used to clear samples of precipitated protein and debris. Sample analysis in anultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrome-try instrument, data extraction, and half-life ( t 1/2) determinations were performed as previously described (Shah et al., 2016). The compounds were binned into clearance categories based on the observed t1/2criteria outlined in Table 2. Data with below limit of quantitation (BLQ), inconclusive (INC), and not found (N/F) designations were excluded from further analysis. The complete data set, annotated with substrate class, is provided in the Supplemental Material. P450-Glo q HTS. The P450-Glo inhibition assay is a luminescent technique used to detect cytochrome P450 activity through the liberation of luciferin fromcytochrome P450 probe substrates. P450-Glo assays were performed using a pre-viously described method with minor modi fications (Veith et al., 2009). All assays were optimized by incubating positive control compounds at both roomtemperature (RT) and 37 /C14C conditions. Since no difference in compound activi-ties were found at RT and 37/C14C for CYP2D6 and CYP3A4, assays for these two enzymes were run at RT. Briefl y, 2ml of cytochrome P450 substrate mix was dispensed into medium-binding white/solid 1536-well plates using a Flying Reagent Dispenser (FRD; Aurora Discovery, Carlsbad, CA), with the exception of adding bovine serum albumin (BSA) to the mixture for CYP2C9. The initialoptimization assays for CYP2C9 yielded lower signal-to-background ratios andhigher well-to-well variation. To improve signal and prevent adhesion of proteinto tubes of the plate dispenser, 0. 4% BSA was added to the CYP2C9 enzyme assays. In total, 23 nl of each positive control (columns 1-4) and test compounds (columns 5-48) dissolved in DMSO were transferred to the assay plates using a Wako Pintool station (Wako Automation, San Diego, CA). The positive controls used in these experiments are listed in Table 3. After the control/test compoundswere transferred, the assay plates were incubated at RT for 10 minutes before the addition of 2 ml NADPH regeneration solution using an FRD. The reaction incu-bation continued at either RT or 37 /C14C for 60 minutes and was then quenched by FRD addition of 4 ml of the detection reagent. After a 20-minute incubation at room temperature, the luminescence intensity was measured and quanti fied using Substrate and Inhibitor QSAR Models for CYP2C9, 2D6, and 3A4 823 at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
a View Lux plate reader (Perkin Elmer, Shelton, CT). Data were expressed as rel-ative luminescence units. The concentration-response activity data for each compound, relative to con-trol, was fit with the four-parameter Hill equation to obtain percent activity and potency values. The complete P450-Glo q HTS data sets have been deposited to Pub Chem, with the following assay IDs: 1645841 (CYP3A4), 1645840(CYP2D6), and 1645842 (CYP2C9). Compounds were classi fied as a hit in the P450-Glo screens when the inhibition ef ficacy was >65% and the potency was <10m M. Training Set and Test Set Preparation for QSAR. The NCATS-ADME library was preprocessed to eliminate entries containing duplicates, inorganic com-pounds, noncovalent complexes, and mixtures. Furthermore, salts and compoundscontaining organometals were removed. The chemical structures were then stan-dardized using Francis Atkinson Standardizer tool. To estimate the statistical per-formance in a robust way, we used a 5-fold crossvalidation routine. The final data set (Table 4) was then split 5-fold while retaining the initial ratio of active/inactive(strati fied sampling). For each fold, four-fifths of the data set was used as the train-ing set, and the remaining one-fifth was used as the test set, sliding over folds. Parsing of Substrates and Inhibitors by Process of Elimination. The hits in the P450-Glo data sets were crossreferenced with the substrate classi fica-tions from the clearance assay. The compounds were binned into four different categories using the classi fication criteria outlined in Table 5. Molecular Descriptor Calculation. The following sets of descriptors were calculated for each of the data sets: 1. The combination of fingerprints with five physicochemical properties, i. e., molecular weight, atom-based calculated partition coefficient (Slog P) (Wildman and Crippen, 1999), topological polar surface area (TPSA), number of H-bond donor, and number of H-bond acceptor, was reported to provide superior performance for prediction of cytochrome P450-medi-ated properties (Zakharov et al., 2019a). Hence, we used Avalon finger-prints (1024 bits) and Morgan fingerprints [calculated using RDKit (Landrum; http://www. rdkit. org)] in combination with the abovemen-tioned five physicochemical properties. 2. Dragon descriptors: The Dragon package provided us with 3840 descrip-tors (https://chm. kode-solutions. net/products_dragon. php). Constant value ES EP ESS ES ESS E EI EIES ES E-I ESEP P E = enzyme S = substrate P = product I-= inhbitor + &or + &or +B(i) B(ii) B(iii) B(iv)A 1) 2) 3) 4)or = ligand or substrate or inhibitor = metabolized substrate (i. e. product) = proluciferin probe + = metabolized probe with liberated luciferin Fig. 1. Reaction schemes for most common scenarios in metabolic clearance and P450-Glo assays. (A) The clearance assay will identify the substrates that proceed through typical Michaelis-Menten kinetics (1) or multiligand processes (2) but is unable to identify either competitive (3) or mechanism-based (4) inhibitors. (B). Rationale for categorizing P450-Glo assay hits as either substrate or inhibitor based on crossreferencing the observations from the two assays. A test article is to be able to occlude the proluciferin probe by competing for the substrate pocket (i and ii, left) but may also generate an inhibitory multiligand complex (ii, middle and right). Alternatively, the test article may simply be a poor ligand (iii, left), form a noninhibitory multiligand complex (iii, right), or exhibit efficient clearance that doesnot impede probe metabolism (iv). E, enzyme; I, inhibitor; P, product; S, substrate. TABLE 1 Summary of enzyme concentrations, cofactor activities, and controls used in the metabolic stability assays Matrix Final Protein Concentration Total Cytochrome P450 Content Cytochrome c Reductase Activity Cytochrome b 5 Content High-Clearance Controls Moderate-Clearance Controls Low-Clearance Controls mg/ml n M nmol/(min /C2 mg protein)pmol/mg protein CYP3A4 /C240. 2 30 2900 1090 Buspirone, loperamide Ketoconazole Antipyrine, carbamazepine CYP2C9 /C240. 12 45 985 710 Glyburide, glimepiride Tamoxifen Antipyrine, meloxicam CYP2D6 /C240. 38 60 3000 — Bufuralol, desipramine, amitriptyline Mexiletine Codeine824 Gonzalez et al. at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
descriptors (0 throughout) and descriptors with low variance ( <0. 4) were removed. For the final modeling exercise, we used 1164 descriptors. Machine Learning Methods —Strati fied Bagging with Random Forest and Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks. Random forest (with default param-eters) was used as a base classi fier (Breiman, 2001). The number of trees was arbitrarily set to 100 (default), since it has been shown that the optimal number of trees usually falls between 64 and 128 and increasing the number of treesdoes not necessarily improve model performance (Oshiro et al., 2012). The prob-lem of data imbalance was overcome using undersampling strati fied bagging (SB) (He and Garcia, 2009; Tetko et al., 2013), which has been proven to be oneof the best-performing methods for dealing with imbalanced data sets (Tetkoet al., 2013; Jain et al., 2018). SB is a machine-learning technique that is basedon an ensemble of models developed using multiple training data sets sampled from the original training set. This technique uses minority class samples to cre-ate the training set of positive samples using the traditional bagging approach(resampling with replacement) and then randomly selects the same number ofsamples from majority class. Thus, the total bagging training set size was doublethe minority class. Several models are then calculated and averaged to produce afinal ensemble model (Tetko et al., 2013). Because of random sampling, about 37% of the compounds are left out in each run, creating “out-of-the-bag” sets that are used for testing the performance of the final model (Tetko et al., 2013). Although a small set of samples are selected each time, a majority of compounds contribute to the overall bagging procedure, given that data sets were generated randomly. Further, an earlier study by Tetko et al., (2013) showed that largernumbers of models per ensemble (e. g., 128, 256, 512, and 1024) did not signi fi-cantly increase the balanced accuracy of models. Thus, in this study, we built atotal of 64 models per ensemble. All models using Random Forest in combina-tion with strati fied bagging were developed and deployed by using the data ana-lytics platform KNIME (Berthold et al., 2008). The performance of the multitask deep neural network (DNN) method on our data sets was also evaluated. DNN has gained prestige and has been widelyapplied across different domains of science and technology (Korotcov et al.,2017; Zakharov et al., 2019b). DNN is a variation of an arti ficial neural network that consists of several sequential hidden layers. Each layer is represented by alinear vector transformation, Wx 1b( w h e r e Wi sam a t r i xo ft u n a b l ew e i g h t s, and b is a bias vector), followed by a nonlinear transformation function, i. e., sig-moid. In this study, multitask DNN models (MT-DNN v1) were developed using the multilayer feedforward neural networks implemented in Keras using the Ten-sorflow back end. The loss function was minimized using the Adam algorithm. All models developed in this study were evaluated by 5-fold crossvalidation(Tropsha, 2010). Model Performance Assessment. The performance of each classi fication model was assessed based on sensitivity (eq. 1), speci ficity (eq. 2), accuracy (eq. 3), balanced accuracy (BACC; eq. 4), and the Matthews correlation coef ficient (MCC; eq. 5). Accuracy may be misleading for a highly imbalanced data set,which makes BACC and MCC more appropriate performance measures to com-pare different classi fiers, given their ability to handle skewed data sets. Sensitivity ¼ TP TP1 FN ð Þ(1) Specificity ¼TN TN1FP ð Þ(2) Accuracy ¼TP1 TN ð Þ TP1FP1TN1FN ð Þ(3) Balanced Accuracy ¼1 2TPð Þ TP1 FN ð Þ1TNð Þ TN1FP ð Þ ! (4) MCC ¼fð TP*TNÞ/C0ð FP*FNÞg fð TP1 FPÞ*ð TP1 FNÞ*ð TN1FPÞ*ð TN1FNÞ1=2g(5) In the above equations, TP refers to true positives, TN refers to true negatives, FP refers to false positives, and FN refers to false negatives. Results Data Curation for the Clearance Assays. The compound library was annotated with structural information using the simpli fied molecu-lar-input line-entry system and Ly Ch I (NCATS; https://github. com/ncats/lychi/) notation formats. During compound batch review, a small percentage ( /C243%) were found to have inconsistent structural annota-tions, which created missing data among the three cytochrome P450 enzyme data sets when pivoted by either simpli fied molecular-input line-entry system or Ly Ch I. The majority of misannotations were intro-duced through the vendor-supplied information, which is dif ficult to detect at purchase, or receipt, considering that the bulk of compoundsincluded in the study was procured within large commercial compound libraries. Structural information was veri fied with the vendor, and the library annotations were updated accord ingly. Of the /C245000 compounds screened in the clearance assay, 80% were assigned a usable t 1/2within each cytochrome P450 data set, following exclusion of the compounds with BLQ, INC, and N/F designations. The unreliable data (20% unusable data) generated in this study are typical of high-throughput mass spectrometry-based assays, which are af flicted by erratic pipetting errors common to liquid handlers performing incu-bations in 384-well format and weak mass spectrometry signal due to inefficient ionization or unmonitored adduct formation. Cytochrome P450 Substrates Identified in High-Throughput Clearance Assays. As expected, the highest number of substrates (t 1/2<30 minutes) were identi fied in the CYP3A4 screen (45%), fol-lowed by CYP2D6 (33%) and CYP2C9 (27%) (Table 6). Overall, only an 11% substrate overlap was observed between all three enzymes. Physicochemical Distribution of High-and Low-Clearance Compounds. Molecular properties of compounds, such as Slog P, TPSA, and molecular weight, were calculated using an in-house com-pound data set annotation tool known as NCATS Find (NCATS). For all three enzymes, a large proportion of substrates ( t1/2<30 minutes) fell within the 250-550 mol. wt. range and had Slog P values between 2 and 6, TPSA values less than 100, 0-2 hydrogen bond donors (data not shown), and 1-8 hydrogen bond acceptors (data not shown). No major difference was observed in the physicochemical property TABLE 2 Categorization of clearance data Observed t1/2 Category Substrate Class t1/2#30 min Unstable 1 t1/2>30 min Stable 0 Low signala BLQ Blank Unable to reasonably fit line to datab INC Analyte not detected in mass spectrometer N/F ay-intercept of line fitting the Ln(analyte/IS) versus time plot is #/C09. 0. b Albendazole also assigned as INC due to its use as IS. TABLE 3 Summary of incubation conditions and positive controls used in the P450-Glo assays Enzyme Inhibitor Dilution Format Inhibitor Concentration Incubation Conditions CYP3A4 Ketoconazole 16 concentrations/2-fold dilution in duplicates 57m M to 1. 8 n M 1 h/RT CYP2C9 Sulfaphenazole 57m M to 1. 8 n M 1 h/ 37/C14C/ 0. 4% BSA CYP2D6 Quinidine 1. 4m M to 0. 04 n M 1 h/RTSubstrate and Inhibitor QSAR Models for CYP2C9, 2D6, and 3A4 825 at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
distributions between substrates of the enzymes except for CYP2D6 substrates, which displayed lower molecular weight and lower TPSAcompared with CYP2C9 and CYP3A4 (Fig. 2). Furthermore, a directcorrelation between the calculated t 1/2values and the abovementioned molecular descriptors was not apparent. Additionally, we did not find the established charged preferences of CYP2C9 (acids) and CYP2D6(basic amines) (Kerns and Di, 2008) to be distinguishing physicochemi-cal features in our data set (data not shown). Cytochrome P450 Inhibitors and Activators Identified in q HTS Assays. The highest percentage of P450-Glo hits were obtained in the CYP3A4 screen (29%), followed by CYP2C9 (23%) and CYP2D6 (19%) (Table 7). In contrast to the clearance assay, only 5%overlap was found among the three enzymes. It should be noted thatboth inhibitors and substrates decrease the luminescent signal in this assay by occluding the probe from the substrate pocket, and therefore a P450-Glo hit may not be a cytochrome P450 inhibitor in the true sense. The P450-Glo hits used in this study for the development of predic-tive QSAR models exclude compounds that increase cytochrome P450metabolism of the probe substrate, observed through an elevated lumi-nescence readout. As current knowledge would lead us to expect, CYP3A4 exhibited the greatest number of molecules (118) that increased luciferin production. Notably, from the 37 compoundsthat stimulated CYP2C9 metabolism, two molecules were indis-criminate against CYP3A4, i. e., proscillaridin and hematopoieticprostaglandin D synthase-inhibitor-1 (although at varying half-maximal activity concentration values). Although the half-maxi-mal concentration range of CYP2C9, between 0. 025 and /C2445 m M, was comparable to that of CYP3A4, spanning from 0. 001 to /C2439m M, the sole two molecules that increased CYP2D6 activity both had a potency of /C2430m M. Furthermore, only CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 had a single discrete compound with increased probe metabolism that also exhibited high clearance: tenatoprazole (a putative proton pump inhibitor) and SCHEMBL17791590 (analdehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor), respectively. However, predic-tive QSAR models for activators were not feasible, given that alarger data set of activator compounds would be needed to powerthe model; the complete list of activating compounds has been provided in the Supplemental Material. Parsing of Substrates and Inhibitors by Process of Elimina-tion. Although the P450-Glo assay alone cannot distinguish inhibitors and substrates, when strati fied with the clearance assay, the parsing of probable inhibitors and substrates is feasible. The number of putative inhibitors identi fied in the P450-Glo assay decreased signi ficantly (77%, 32%, and 66% for CYP3A4, 2C9, and 2D6, respectively). The Venn diagrams in Fig. 3, A and B show the overlap of substrates and inhibi-tors, highlighting the broad substrate/inhibitor recognition capabilities of the three enzymes. The predisposition of CYP3A4 to metabolize xeno-biotics is apparent, with the number of substrates being 3 times greaterthan that of inhibitors. Although CYP2D6 also exhibited a higher ten-dency to metabolize compounds, at a substrate:inhibitor ratio of /C242, CYP2C9 is clearly more susceptible to inhibition, with a corresponding ratio of /C240. 5. Nonetheless, the annotation of these enzymes as xenobi-otic metabolizers is validated through the observation of notably highercounts and overlap among substrates as compared with the parsed inhibitors. Figure 3C displays an example of a chemical space plot for all CYP2C9 data based on visual clustering (Optibrium; www. optibrium. com/stardrop). We find that the compounds are widely scattered, point-ing to the diversity of our data set. It is important to note this approach overlooks compounds that have divergent enzymatic mechanisms based on the presence of additionalligands, by which binding alone leads to the oxidation of the moleculebut can lead to a purely inhibitory enzyme-ligand complex in the pres-ence of the probe (Fig. 1, schemes Bi, Bii middle, and Bii right, can be true for the same compound). The compounds in reference cannot be distinguished from those in category 1 per the rationale used (Table 5) and, for the purposes of this, study will remain in that category given that they fall within the high clearance threshold. Ketoconazole is a prime example of this case, as it is a well established substrate while also considered a potent inhibitor of cytochrome P450 catalytic activity (Boulenc et al., 2016; https:// www. accessdata. fda. gov/drugsatfda_docs/ label/2014/018533s041lbl. pdf, 2020). We reviewed the literature for several of the category 1 compounds and found that some historical compounds can be further annotated with this data set, such as the assignment of tripelennamine as a substrate for CYP2D6. Although it is not surprising that this first-generation antihistamine is cleared by the TABLE 4 Summary of substrate and inhibitor data sets used in this study Type Data Set Name Total Number of Compounds Number of Actives Number of Inactives Imbalance Ratio (Inactives/Actives) Substrate data CYP2C9 3966 1126 2840 3:1 CYP2D6 3946 1318 2628 2:1 CYP3A4 3974 1883 2091 1:1 Inhibitor data CYP2C9 3288 570 2718 5:1 CYP2D6 3187 367 2820 8:1 CYP3A4 2794 340 2454 7:1 TABLE 5 Parsing rationale for substrate and inhibitors Category Clearance/P450-Glo Classification Parsing Rationale 1 1/1 Substrate Exhibiting activity in both assays, the compound is a clear ligand for the enzyme(s). It is unclear whether the parent, product, or both are responsible for the inhibition. 2 /C0/1 Inhibitor The compound is able to inhibit the enzyme metabolism of a probe substrate but is not itself cleared, indicating that the parent molecule is an effective inhibitor. 3 /C0//C0 Noncompetitor The lack of activity in both assays signifies either that binding does not occur or that the interaction does not generate a catalytically competent or inhibitory complex. 4 1//C0 Substrate Although a clear substrate, the binding kinetics of the parent compound and its metabolites do not preclude the concomitant metabolism of the P450-Glo probe. 826 Gonzalez et al. at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
enzyme, the reported metabolism of this archaic compound is limited (Chaudhuri et al., 1976; Yeh, 1991) and is solely categorized as an inhibitor of CYP2D6 in the Drug Interactions Flockhart Table (https://drug-interactions. medicine. iu. edu/Main Table. aspx), illustrating the pres-ence of missing substrate/inhibitor annotations for familiar oldercompounds. Predictive Models: SB and MT-DNN. Once data analysis and curation were complete, we focused our attention on building classi fica-tion models that can effectively distinguish actives from inactives using a machine-learning approach. For this, a panel of classi fiers were trained on all data sets using different combinations of descriptors. To avoid bias that might occur as a result of the splitting schemes employed, all models were evaluated in a 5-fold external crossvalidation scheme. Considering the average prediction performance across 5-folds, models A B C Fig. 2. Property distributions including (A) molecular weight, (B) TPSA, and (C) Slog P for the entire data set compared with substrates ( t1/2<30 minutes) of CYP3A4, CYP2C9, and CYP2D6 in the supersome clearance assay. TABLE 6 Percentage of high-clearance compounds across three cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP3A4 CYP2C9 CYP2D6 % CYP3A4 47 21 19 CYP2C9 28 13CYP2D6 33Substrate and Inhibitor QSAR Models for CYP2C9, 2D6, and 3A4 827 at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
for all six data sets (three substrate 1three inhibitor) showed BACC values close to or above 70%. For the CYP3A4 substrate data set, a DNN-based model with dragon descriptors performed the best (BACC = 76%; MCC = 0. 51), closely followed by SB with a com-bination of Morgan fingerprints and five physicochemical properties (BACC = 75%; MCC = 0. 49), which was found to be the best-per-forming method for the five remaining data sets. Taking a consensus between different descriptor combinations and/or machine-learningapproaches did not improve the model performance (data notshown). Considering that the two approaches did not yield signi fi-cantly different BACC and MCC values (Fig. 4; Table 8), SB with Morgan fingerprints and five physicochemical properties was chosen as the default model for all data sets because of its accessibility (i. e.,open source). Supplemental Table 1 reports prediction performancemeasures for all data sets used in this study. Applicability Domain Assessment. The applicability domain (AD) of a QSAR model de fines the limitation in its structural domain and response space. In other words, this principle for model validation restricts the applicability of a model to reliably predict test compoundsthat are structurally similar to training compounds used while building the model. Historically, several approaches have been proposed to cal-culate the applicability of a QSAR model (Sushko et al., 2010; Sahigara et al., 2013; Yun et al., 2017; Patel et al., 2018). In this study, for esti-mation of the model 's AD, the Tanimoto similarity was assessed between test set compounds and its nearest neighbor in the training set using Morgan fingerprints. The calculations were performed separately for all six data sets. For each fold within each data set, we filtered out compounds that were below a certain similarity threshold and furthercalculated the BACC and the coverage of predictions as the percentage of compounds that fall within the model 's AD. The distribution of BACC, and corresponding coverage values, for test sets (5-fold aver-age) versus AD cutoffs are presented in Fig. 5 using the CYP2C9 sub-strate data set as an example. The data reveal a positive trend between AD and prediction accuracy, wherein the AD threshold value increases with the prediction accuracy of the model. The coverage of predictioncorrelates inversely with AD, as shown by the dramatic decrease in cov-erage as AD values rise. The best prediction results for CYP2C9 substrates were achieved with an AD equal to 0. 8, resulting in a BACC of 0. 79, although with a very low coverage value of /C241%. The coverage achieved with an AD cutoff of 0. 7 was not signi ficantly better. The optimal ratio of both the accuracy of prediction and coverage was achieved with an AD cutoff value of 0. 6. Similar results were obtained for all other data sets(Supplemental Table 2). Given the clear trend between the accuracy of prediction and AD values, this approach can be used to establish the confidence level of predictions. Analysis of Uncertainty of Prediction/Class Probability. In addition to the category, the classi fication approach provides an output for class probability, a numerical value between 0 and 1, which corre-sponds to the probability of a compound being active. Class probabilityis an estimation of the reliability of predictions and is referred to as uncertainty of prediction. Values close to 1 indicate active compounds,whereas values close to 0 indicate inactive compounds. Analysis ofclass probability showed most of the misclassi fication was in the class probability range of 0. 5 to 0. 6. In the case of the CYP2C9 substratedata set, the models predicted more than 80% of the compounds cor-rectly for the class probability range between 0-0. 4 and 0. 7-1 (Fig. 6). The same trend was observed for all six prediction models(Supplemental Table 3), reinforcing increased con fidence in model pre-dictions when the 0. 5-0. 6 class probability range is excluded. Comparison with the Reference Tools/Models. After completion of the models, an external validation test set was sought to ascertaintheir utility, a challenging endeavor considering that clearance and inhi-bition data for individual enzymes is limited and scattered in literature. In addition, we pursued to compare our model performance with otheropen-source models that exist in literature. Although a few open-sourcewebsites offer cytochrome P450-specific substrate and inhibitor models, most were developed using compounds from literature, i. e., essentially a subset of the NPC. Given that our models were developed on the entire NPC data set, the effort to compare model performance metrics was a bandoned. The focus was then shifted to comparing against commercial models. ADMET Predictor from Simulations Plus is one of theleading software packages for ADMET predictions and is regu-larly used at NCATS. The software includes substrate and inhibitor classi fication models for nine cytochrome P450 enzymes using data obtained from Biovia metabolite database, Drug Bank, and other liter-ature sources. The total number of compounds used to build the CYP2C9, CYP2D6, and CYP3A4 substrate models ranged from 1400 to 1600, whereas the inhibition models were developed using /C24700 compounds. To compare against ADMET Predictor, our mod-els developed herein were retrained using only the NPC library. Since SB with Morgan fingerprints and five physicochemical proper-ties showed superior performance in comparison with other techni-ques, we used this combination to develop prediction models on the NPC library. These models were then used to predict the NCATSannotated library, and model performances were compared againstpredictions from ADMET Predictor. Model statistics on the training set (NPC) can be found in the Supplemental Table 4. As shown in Fig. 7, the models developed from this work outperformed thosefrom ADMET Predictor in terms of both BACC and MCC. To ascertain the robustness of our model, we identi fied singletons in the NCATS annotated library and compared prediction results/modelstatistics for those compounds. We found 615 singletons in the NCATSannotated library, and once again, our models outperformed ADMET Predictor (Supplemental Table 4). Although our models exhibited supe-rior performance on this test set as compared with ADMET Predictor, itmust be noted that the data used by the models in ADMET Predictormay not have been generated in assays that are the same or similar tothose employed in this study. Therefore, these results are provided only for a comparative assessment and must be cautiously inferred. Discussion HLMs are the gold standard for studying phase I/cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism. An abundance of HLM data exist in litera-ture, and several groups have used this data to publish QSAR models (Lee et al., 2007; Sakiyama et al., 2008; Hu et al., 2010; Zakharovet al., 2012; Liu et al., 2015). The majority of established, respectedmodels, and (importantly) source data sets, are proprietary, which limits their public accessib ility. Although several HLM clearance models exist, the QSAR knowledge for individual cytochromes P450 remains limited. A joint effort by NCATS and members from the IQ Consor-tium commenced the mission to publish a database of clearance values,TABLE 7 Percentage of P450-Glo hits across three enzymes CYP3A4 CYP2C9 CYP2D6 % CYP3A4 35 19 13 CYP2C9 29 10CYP2D6 25828 Gonzalez et al. at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
which will not only help advance drug design efforts but also provide a better understanding of the structure-activity relationship for major cyto-chrome P450 enzymes. The bene fits gained by the scienti fic community from this effort include 1) enhancing lead optimization by guiding struc-ture modifi cation, 2) improving hit selection by high-throughput and computational screening, and 3) enabling advanced computationalhuman metabolic models for individual metabolic enzymes. At/C244000 molecules, it is the largest library of compounds screened for individual cytochrome P450 enzymes. Notably, the databaseincludes the majority of investigational and regulatory agency-approved drugs, making it the most publicly available, comprehensive list of CYP2C9, 2D6, and 3A4 substrates and inhibitors for clinically used small molecules, which has been founded on single-source empiricaldata. The complex kinetics of cytochrome P450 enzymes creates a mul-titude of enzyme-ligand scenarios, which could make designations of substrate or inhibitor ambiguous. Stemming from observations of non-linear kinetics with cytochrome P450-mediated reactions, Korzekwa et al. (1998) provided some of the first evidence that enzymes bind AB C Fig. 3. Substrate (A) and inhibitor (B) overlap among three enzymes. (C) Chemical space plot example for CYP2C9. Substrate and Inhibitor QSAR Models for CYP2C9, 2D6, and 3A4 829 at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
multiple ligands simultaneously. The issue of cytochrome P450 cooper-ativity and allosteric interactions have since been reviewed extensively (Davydov and Halpert, 2008; Denisov et al., 2009). However, it is still necessary to evaluate the cytochrome P450-ligand binding empirically, as predictive models do not exist for all the possibilities. Importantly, the data sets and models generated from this effort cannot be extended beyond the simple categorical assignment of substrates and inhibitors, considering that an extensive amount of additional investigation is nec-essary to fully characterize binding modes (Guengerich et al., 2019), which is more appropriately evaluated spectroscopically using the shiftin the quintessential P450 absorbance band. Further, cytochrome P450 inhibition models are complexed by multiligand interactions in which different probe substrates may lead to alternate structure-activity rela-tionships. Nonetheless, we consider the data sets and models reported herein widely applicable, as they were developed using P450-Glo sys-tem, which is a commonly used assay in the drug discovery screening paradigm. The predictive machine-learning models developed from these stud-ies are forti fied by the use of reliable data that are unhindered by assay and laboratory-to-laboratory variability, an inherent af fliction of most commercial and open-source models that is introduced by sourcing data from compiled literature. We employed SB and multitask deep learning models to classify compounds as substrates or inhibitors for three pre-dominant xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes (CYP3A4, CYP2C9, and CYP2D6). Despite the imbalance of the data sets in our study, espe-cially the inhibitor data sets, we were able to achieve classi fication accu-racies (BACC) around 70% (Fig. 4; Supplemental Table 1). Comparison with the widely used commercial software, i. e., ADMET Predictor, demonstrates the value of our model and the quality of ourdata. Since 2012, chemists at NCATS have synthesized >20,000 com-pounds for more than 250 drug discovery projects that cover a widerange of disease areas, pharmacological targets, and cellular pathways. A high degree of similarity in physicochemical properties (molecular weight, Slog P, TPSA, H-Bond Acceptor, and H-Bond Donor) was observed between this data set (Siramshetty et al., 2020) and our NCATS-ADME 5K library. Thus, our models can be used during thecompound design phase as well as after synthesis as a filteringmechanism to rank order compounds for phenotyping and cytochrome P450 inhibition assays in drug discovery. Clustering is a powerful approach that allows the grouping of “similar ”compounds to distinguish chemical series within a data set of diverse compounds, analyze the SAR, and identify “regions ”of chemis-try that may yield good properties. Manual inspection of our data sets revealed great structural diversity. With the aim to quantify as well as qualitatively describe this structural diversity, we performed 1) cluster-ing analysis based on Morgan fingerprints (KNIME) and 2) clustering based on maximum common substructure (Star Drop). From 3584 com-pounds that encompassed the substrate data across the three enzymes,1829 different clusters were identi fied using Morgan fingerprints. From those, 1067 were singletons, and only 24 clusters contained $10 com-pounds. The most populated cluster contained 30 compounds. Cluster-ing based on maximum common substructure algorithm, asimplemented in Star Drop (similarity threshold = 0. 70), also revealedhigh structural diversity in the data set, yielding 2059 singletons and a maximum cluster size of 33 compounds. Additionally, the Murcko (Bemis and Murcko, 1996) scaffold algorithm used identi fied over 2617 different Murcko scaffolds within the aforementioned 3584 compound data set. The Murcko analysis produced an average scaffold-to-com-pound ratio of 0. 73, once again signifying the large structural diversityof our data set. Analysis showing the most frequent scaffolds is pre-sented in Fig. 8. Benzene scaffolds were found with very low frequency (/C246% of the data set), and no other scaffolds reached prevalence values above 0. 5%. Considering the central role CYP450 enzymes play in the clearance of small-molecule therapeutics, evaluation of the speci fic cytochrome Fig. 4. The 5-fold crossvalidation results from SB with Morgan fingerprints: (A) AUC and (B) BACC. TABLE 8 Summary of crossvalidation results BACC Substrates Inhibitors Classifiers Descriptors CYP2C9 CYP2D6 CYP3A4 CYP2C9 CYP2D6 CYP3A4 SB Morgan 1Phys Chem 0. 69 0. 71 0. 75 0. 74 0. 64 0. 68 SB Avalon 1Phys Chem 0. 67 0. 69 0. 72 0. 73 0. 63 0. 64 SB Dragon_Normalized 0. 68 0. 69 0. 76 0. 72 0. 62 0. 67 DNN Morgan 1Phys Chem 0. 62 0. 67 0. 72 0. 63 0. 58 0. 58 DNN Avalon 1Phys Chem 0. 64 0. 66 0. 68 0. 63 0. 59 0. 58 DNN Dragon_Normalized 0. 66 0. 68 0. 72 0. 63 0. 57 0. 590. 0 0. 5 1. 00. 10. 20. 30. 40. 50. 60. 70. 80. 9AD Threshold Value Balanced Accuracy Coverage Fig. 5. Distribution of prediction results for test set over AD cutoffs and coverage values using the CYP2C9 substrate data set as an example. 830 Gonzalez et al. at ASPET Journals on June 18, 2024 dmd. aspetjournals. org Downloaded from | 822.full_5.pdf |
P450 enzymes that catalyze the metabolism of new chemical entities is essential at the preclinical phase of the drug discovery and developmentprocess. For more than 20 years, health authorities have provided guid-ance toward the characterization of in vitro drug interactions involving cytochromes P450, as well as other enzymes involved in the human dis-position of xenobiotics (Huang et al., 2008; Prueksaritanont et al.,2013). The focus is on reducing the risk that a novel molecule will act as a DDI “perpetrator ”in the clinic through the interactions, i. e., sub-strate and inhibitor, with cytochrome P450 enzymes. However, DDI assessments are typically conducted long after the concept has been syn-thesized and now poised as a developmental molecule. Although the models provided in this report are not adequate to replace the studiesnecessary to predict clinical DDI, the prediction of cytochrome P450 substrate and inhibitors can be fully exploited early in the discovery phase for ranking or selecting compounds for experimental validation. One of the first examples of cytochrome P450 polymorphism was reported by Eichelbaum et al. (1975), who showed that N-oxidation of sparteine was subject to a high degree of interindividual variability. Since then, it has been well established that almost all drug-metabolizing cyto-chrome P450 enzymes are polymorphic. Johansson and Ingelman-Sund-berg (2011) have summarized the most important cytochrome P450 alleles related to drug toxicity and the classes of drugs most commonlyaffected by these polymorphisms. The polymorphic variability inpharmacokinetics, which drives pharmacodynamics, can lead to toxicity or inef ficacy, with both results being detrimental to patients. The use of our models in early drug discovery could enable the flagging of com-pounds/series that rely heavily on one of these three enzymes for clear-ance, as well as those with inhibition potential against these enzymes, prompting medicinal chemists to produce compounds that avoid potential future development problems. The application of this level of detailed information early in the drug discovery process will be invaluable. In summary, we report the first systemic attempt to profi le and gener-ate a substrate and inhibitor database of this scope and size for major CYP450 enzymes. This collaborative effort between NCATS and IQConsortium yielded several useful tools, including 1) a high-throughput automated incubation method for metabolic stability screening; 2) two different automated data acquisition methods with two different mass spectrometry systems; 3) an automated method of assigning t 1/2via the Validator software [code publicly available (Shah et al., 2016)]; 4)large, publicly available data sets ( >4000 compounds) for three major cytochrome P450 enzymes; and 5) robust predictive models for cyto-chrome P450 substrates and inhibitors (https://opendata. ncats. nih. gov/ adme). We look forward to the prospect that the knowledge gained, and the tools developed, from this venture will accelerate drug translational research in academia, small biotech, and pharmaceutical companies. Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge compound management, espe-cially Paul Shinn and Misha Itkin, for their support. 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