AMPCliff: quantitative definition and benchmarking of activity cliffs in antimicrobial peptides

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Autori principali: Li, Kewei, Wu, Yuqian, Li, Yinheng, Guo, Yutong, Wang, Yan, Liang, Yiyang, Fan, Yusi, Huang, Lan, Zhang, Ruochi, Zhou, Fengfeng
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author Li, Kewei
Wu, Yuqian
Li, Yinheng
Guo, Yutong
Wang, Yan
Liang, Yiyang
Fan, Yusi
Huang, Lan
Zhang, Ruochi
Zhou, Fengfeng
author_facet Li, Kewei
Wu, Yuqian
Li, Yinheng
Guo, Yutong
Wang, Yan
Liang, Yiyang
Fan, Yusi
Huang, Lan
Zhang, Ruochi
Zhou, Fengfeng
contents Since the mechanism of action of drug molecules in the human body is difficult to reproduce in the in vitro environment, it becomes difficult to reveal the causes of the activity cliff phenomenon of drug molecules. We found out the AC of small molecules has been extensively investigated but limited knowledge is accumulated about the AC phenomenon in peptides with canonical amino acids. Understanding the mechanism of AC in canonical amino acids might help understand the one in drug molecules. This study introduces a quantitative definition and benchmarking framework AMPCliff for the AC phenomenon in antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) composed by canonical amino acids. A comprehensive analysis of the existing AMP dataset reveals a significant prevalence of AC within AMPs. AMPCliff quantifies the activities of AMPs by the MIC, and defines 0.9 as the minimum threshold for the normalized BLOSUM62 similarity score between a pair of aligned peptides with at least two-fold MIC changes. This study establishes a benchmark dataset of paired AMPs in Staphylococcus aureus from the publicly available AMP dataset GRAMPA, and conducts a rigorous procedure to evaluate various AMP AC prediction models, including nine machine learning, four deep learning algorithms, four masked language models, and four generative language models. Our analysis reveals that these models are capable of detecting AMP AC events and the pre-trained protein language model ESM2 demonstrates superior performance across the evaluations. The predictive performance of AMP activity cliffs remains to be further improved, considering that ESM2 with 33 layers only achieves the Spearman correlation coefficient 0.4669 for the regression task of the MIC values on the benchmark dataset. Source code and additional resources are available at https://www.healthinformaticslab.org/supp/ or https://github.com/Kewei2023/AMPCliff-generation.
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spellingShingle AMPCliff: quantitative definition and benchmarking of activity cliffs in antimicrobial peptides
Li, Kewei
Wu, Yuqian
Li, Yinheng
Guo, Yutong
Wang, Yan
Liang, Yiyang
Fan, Yusi
Huang, Lan
Zhang, Ruochi
Zhou, Fengfeng
Biomolecules
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
Since the mechanism of action of drug molecules in the human body is difficult to reproduce in the in vitro environment, it becomes difficult to reveal the causes of the activity cliff phenomenon of drug molecules. We found out the AC of small molecules has been extensively investigated but limited knowledge is accumulated about the AC phenomenon in peptides with canonical amino acids. Understanding the mechanism of AC in canonical amino acids might help understand the one in drug molecules. This study introduces a quantitative definition and benchmarking framework AMPCliff for the AC phenomenon in antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) composed by canonical amino acids. A comprehensive analysis of the existing AMP dataset reveals a significant prevalence of AC within AMPs. AMPCliff quantifies the activities of AMPs by the MIC, and defines 0.9 as the minimum threshold for the normalized BLOSUM62 similarity score between a pair of aligned peptides with at least two-fold MIC changes. This study establishes a benchmark dataset of paired AMPs in Staphylococcus aureus from the publicly available AMP dataset GRAMPA, and conducts a rigorous procedure to evaluate various AMP AC prediction models, including nine machine learning, four deep learning algorithms, four masked language models, and four generative language models. Our analysis reveals that these models are capable of detecting AMP AC events and the pre-trained protein language model ESM2 demonstrates superior performance across the evaluations. The predictive performance of AMP activity cliffs remains to be further improved, considering that ESM2 with 33 layers only achieves the Spearman correlation coefficient 0.4669 for the regression task of the MIC values on the benchmark dataset. Source code and additional resources are available at https://www.healthinformaticslab.org/supp/ or https://github.com/Kewei2023/AMPCliff-generation.
title AMPCliff: quantitative definition and benchmarking of activity cliffs in antimicrobial peptides
topic Biomolecules
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09738