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itself [85]. Unfortunately, the exact features relevant to the activity of interest need to be elucidated from proximations, such as quantitative structure–activity relation­ship studies (QSAR), or more generalized rules identied from large data mining. With the breadth of tools available for similarity searches and dimensionality reduction, a deep understanding of existing chemical space can be gained with the goal of informing the next generation of RNA-targeting small molecules.
5.5.2 Additional Machine-Learning Tools
Machine-learning-assisted drug discovery is a valuable tool in understanding RNA:small-molecule recognition, particularly because of the inherent RNA dynamics that make characterizing small-molecule-binding modes a challenge [40, 42, 86, 87]. Indeed, machine-learning approaches have been increasingly uti­lized to facilitate ligand discovery for targeting RNA. These methods aim to model the complex structure–activity relationships between small molecules and RNA to enable more ecient identication of active compounds. One general strategy is to train classication/regression models to distinguish RNA-binding molecules from non-binders based on calculated molecular features. For example, naive Bayesian models have been applied to determine key chemical properties of molecules likely to interact with RNA [40]. The knowledge from such models can then guide the design of focused screening libraries enriched in putative RNA-binding molecules. QSAR models can also guide the design of new RNA-targeting molecules. To expand the applicability domain of conventional QSAR models beyond a single scaold, a set of structurally diverse RNA-binding molecules was incorporated [88]. With representative sampling, QSAR models eectively predicted anity and kinetics for novel chemotypes binding to a target RNA. Beyond learning information from the experimental readout, predictive modeling of RNA–ligand interactions directly from RNA structure has been explored. Graph-based representations of RNA-binding sites in known structures were used as input for graph neural networks or other machine-learning architectures to predict suitable interacting ligands [89, 90]. By learning from atomic details of known RNA–ligand complexes, such computational methods can suggest likely binders without performing a screen. Overall, machine-learning strategies have demonstrated signicant promise to enhance the discovery of RNA-targeted ligands.
It is worth noting that recent advances in deep learning (DL) have triggered several seminal works using generative models for de novo molecular design, where deep neural networks are employed to resemble the molecular generation process and full property optimization [91–94]. Though current eorts are made to target protein structures, these approaches could be easily extended to target RNAs. Commonly used generative DL architectures include recurrent neural networks, generative adversarial networks, and autoencoders [91]. Using various types of molecular representations from simple 1D sequences to the 2D molecular graph, and even 3D spatial points as the input, the molecular generating process can be learned eciently, and novel molecules are continuously sampled. The automatic chemical design combined with machine-learning models mapping
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the structure–activity landscape has great potential for ecient generation of RNA-targeted small molecules, speeding up the discovery of small-molecule-based chemical probes.
5.5.3 Structure-Based Ligand Design
Structure-based ligand design such as molecular docking is hindered by a lack of determined RNA structures and appropriate scoring functions, though research interests keep growing in the eld [95]. The scarcity of high- or even low-resolution RNA 3D structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) database when compared to the tremendous number of protein:ligand structures poses a signif­icant limitation. In 2020 there were nearly 300× more unique high resolution protein:small-molecule structures deposited in the PDB than RNA:small-molecule structures [96, 97]. Despite this limited number of RNA:ligand structures, these data have become a valuable source for modeling RNA-ligand binding. One challenge in RNA docking is the dynamic nature of RNA structures, which can lead to dierent bound state conformations with dierent small molecules. To account for RNA dynamics in docking, Stelzer et al. generated an ensemble of experimentally informed RNA conformers via NMR and molecular dynamics and found that the binding energies of small-molecule interactions could be predicted with compara­ble results to when the bound structure was available [70]. Such ensemble-based docking further identied several novel TAR binders, including DMA, which evolved as an important RNA-binding scaold as previously mentioned. The knowledge from protein-based docking and scoring can be transferred to RNA targets after addressing some common pitfalls, including target dynamics, ligand protomer, and tautomer correction, and solvation eect upon ligand binding. Kallert and coworkers transferred protein-based docking protocols to preQ1-riboswitch virtual screening and successfully identied six active compounds [98]. These hit molecules re-capitulated most of the important interactions based on generated docking poses, though with conned structural diversity and novelty, suggesting the utility of such protein-centric docking methods in the evaluation of RNA-binding ligands. It is anticipated that future progress requires continued advancement of computational techniques as well as growth of structural databases and measure­ment data for RNA–ligand complexes. Physics-based and knowledge-based scoring functions have shown promising success for modeling RNA–ligand binding, but machine-learning methods, though still new in this eld, hold great potential to further improve prediction performance [99].
5.6 Case Studies in Examining and Expanding RNA-Targeted Chemical Space
With the ever-growing number of discovered RNA-targeting ligands and libraries designed around RNA-privileged chemical space or scaolds, and the advancement of tools such as those described in this chapter, there is an opportunity to leverage
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the existing knowledge to better guide future design or studies. Here we present a few case studies for how information on the similarities and dierences between libraries can be examined, and how this may help to inform future eorts.
5.6.1 Using QSAR to Probe RNA-Targeting Small-Molecule Properties
QSAR can be used to bridge ligand structural parameters and bioactivity or binding proles. The application of QSAR models can be employed from early hit iden­tication stages to the later-stage lead optimization. Due to the statistical nature of the approach, the quality and size of the modeling data directly determines the ability of the model to accurately reveal the underlying distribution of the structure–activity landscape, i.e. the propensity for overtraining a model with insucient or low-quality data is high, while the algorithm used to build the model impacts the outcome slightly due to dierent inherent assumptions.
The use of QSAR studies for RNA targets is in its infancy, and few examples in the eld directly full the goal of ligand discovery. More often, the QSAR model provides a lens to help chemists decipher the molecular descriptors that contribute to RNA binding. For instance, Maciagiewicz et al. synthesized 53 oxazolidinone ligands and tested their binding to T-box riboswitch antiterminator RNA via a FRET assay. The ligand-induced uorescence change was correlated with ligand descriptors to aord the QSAR model, which revealed several key physicochemical properties that con­tributed mostly to the tting. The study provided quantitative evidence that dipole moment, hydrogen-bonding capacity, and hydrophobicity played important roles in oxazolidinones recognizing T-box antiterminator RNA [68].
Additionally, QSAR models could provide an ecient tool that allows fast evaluation of the virtual library within its applicable domain before any experiment is done. For instance, Patwardhan and coworkers prioritized synthesis of one DMA compound out of many others from a virtual library, based on the QSAR predictions [72]. The compound was discovered to be one of the tightest binders in their DMA library against HIV-1 exonic splicing silencer of Vpr (ESSV). Many QSAR studies struggle with limited applicable domain, which means only a specic subset of compounds can be used for predictions. Toestablish a broadly applicable framework for RNA-targeted ligand discovery, Cai and coworkers developed QSAR models that connect the molecular properties of structurally diverse small molecules to their binding behaviors against HIV-1 TAR [88]. In this study, the authors applied mul­tiple linear regression with feature selection to build predictive and interpretable models that quantitatively correlate physicochemical and structural descriptors of ligands across multiple chemical scaolds with their experimentally determined binding parameters. Through rigorous validation on new molecules, the study revealed accurate prediction of binding strength and kinetic rate constants [88]. Overall, this work puts forth a generalizable approach leveraging QSAR modeling to elucidate structure–activity relationships and rationally guide the design of RNA-targeted ligands. With the number of small-molecule–RNA interactions being annotated from experiments, QSAR will be increasingly important to discover more bioactive RNA-targeted ligands and assist decision-making during hit-to-lead triage.
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5.6.2 Evaluating the Chemical Space of Natural, Synthetic, and Commercial Ligands
In this chapter, we have described the types of ligands developed from nature, synthetic eorts and those existing in commercial libraries. To better understand the commonalities and diversity between these groups, we performed a PCA on 3 datasets. The natural ligands were composed of natural products with no synthetic modications from the data set of RNA targeted ligands reported by Aboul-Ela, originally collected by Bodoor and coworkers [13, 100]. The synthetic ligands are represented by molecules from R-BIND small molecules reported to be a part of synthetic libraries, and the commercial ligands are a subset of 80 molecules from the DRTL that were selected using a Kennard–Stone algorithm as previously reported [5, 10, 88, 101]. There was no duplication among the selected ligands. With these three libraries a PCA was performed on 20 normalized cheminformatic parameters, following previously reported procedures [3]. Along PCs 1 and 2, there is a strong separation between commercial and natural ligands, and we see synthetic ligands covering space in both of the natural and commercial libraries (Figure 5.5a). There is a bit more separation for synthetic ligands when looking along PCs 1 and 3, as well as PCs 2 and 3 (Figure 5.5b,c). Polar surface area and hydrogen bond donors and acceptors strongly contribute to spread along PC1, while ring parameters contribute to PC2, and nitrogen and oxygen account for a signicant portion of the spread along PC3 (Figure 5.5d,e, key parameters in bold). The spread along PC 3 for synthetics may be explained by large nitrogen counts compared to low oxygen counts observed in R-BIND [5] compared to natural ligands, which are enriched with alcohols from aminoglycosides.
In addition to the PCA we evaluated the shape of the molecules in the various libraries through calculating principal moments of inertia (PMI). As one may expect, natural ligands were the most sphere-like due to the inclusion of amino­glycosides and other large exible ring systems, while commercial ligands were the most rod-like, although this was not a statistically signicant dierence when compared to the synthetic ligands, as evaluated by a Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (Figure 5.6). For all analyses in the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test the commercial and natural libraries were statistically signicant, while the only other dierence observed was between commercial and synthetic ligands in the distance to sphere. This data appears consistent with the results from PCA with the largest spread between commercial and natural ligands and synthetics sharing some similarities with both libraries. Understanding the dierences between these libraries and the propensities of dierent classes of molecules to bind RNA more promiscuously or selectively can inform future ligand design by biasing new libraries toward the properties of a specic class, such as natural products where we know a high degree of selectivity has often been evolved.
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Figure 5.5 Principal component analysis (PCA) of libraries. (a) Graph of PC 1 and 2. (b) Graph of PC 2 and 3. (c) Graph of PC 1 and 3. (d) Loading plot depicting contribution of cheminformatic parameters to PC 1 and 2. (e) Loading plot depicting contribution of cheminformatic parameters to PC 2 and 3. PCA performed in XLStat-Student (version
2021.4.1.1209) and PCA graphs generated in GraphPad Prism (version 9.4.1 for Mac). Cheminformatic parameters were calculated using ChemAxon (Marvin version 21.4.6, 2021) as previously described. Source: Adapted from Morgan et al. [3]. MW = Molecular Weight, HBA = Hydrogen Bond Acceptors, HBD = Hydrogen Bond Donors, Log P = n-Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient, RotB = Number of Rotatable Bonds, tPSA = Topological Polar Surface Area, log D = n-Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient, N = Number of Nitrogen Atoms, O = Number of Oxygen Atoms, Rings = Number of Rings, ArRings = Number of Aromatic Rings, HetRings = Number of Heteroatom-Containing Rings, SysRings = Number of Ring Systems, SysRR = Ring Complexity, Fsp3= Fraction of sp3-Hybridized Carbons, nStereo = Number of Stereocenters, ASA = Accessible Surface Area, RelPSA = Relative Polar Surface Area, TC = Total Charge, VWSA = Van der Waals Surface Area.
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Figure 5.6 Shape analysis of natural, commercial, and synthetic ligands. (a) Principal Moments of Inertia (PMI) analysis for natural, commercial, and synthetic ligands. (b) Cumulative distributions for distances from rod, disc, and sphere vertices. PMI was calculated as previously reported. Source: Adapted from Morgan et al. [4]. (c) Statistical comparison from Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test between libraries performed as previously reported [4]. Light blue = P-value <0.05; Dark blue = P-value <0.001. Performed in R (version 4.1.2) Graphs were created in GraphPad Prism (version 9.4.1 for Mac).
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5.7 Conclusions and Outlook
In this chapter we have presented diverse ligands known to target RNA as well as tools to evaluate libraries and further our understanding of chemical matter that binds to RNA. Through investigating existing data and ligands, the eld has identied trends in properties of RNA targeted ligands and through the use of machine-learning techniques presented here, a deeper understanding of how ligands recognize RNA may be achieved. By examining natural, commercial, and synthetic ligands that target RNA in the case study presented here, we identied signicant diversity in chemical space, showing the range of molecules and by extension interactions that can be formed between ligands and RNA. With the continuing adaptation of machine-learning algorithms to RNA targeting, we look forward to a deep understanding of RNA recognition by small molecules and the rational design of novel RNA-targeted probes.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Dr. Greta Bagnolini and TinTin Luu for their help in editing this chapter. Funding was provided by NSF CAREER (1750375).
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