Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicinal Chemistry,
China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
2. Innovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of
Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, P. R. China.
Abstract
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), a tyrosine receptor kinase, has been proven to be associated with the occurrence of numerous malignancies. Although there have been already at least 3 generations of ALK inhibitors approved by FDA or in clinical trials, the occurrence of various mutations seriously attenuates the effectiveness of the drugs. Unfortunately, most of the drug resistance mechanisms still remain obscure. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the bottom reasons of the drug resistance mechanisms caused by the mutations. In this work, on the basis of verifying the accuracy of 2 main kinds of binding free energy calculation methodologies [end-point method of Molecular Mechanics with Poisson-Boltzmann/Generalized Born and Surface Area (MM/PB(GB)SA) and alchemical method of Thermodynamic Integration (TI)], we performed a systematic analysis on the ALK systems to explore the underlying shared and specific drug resistance mechanisms, covering the one-drug-multiple-mutation and multiple-drug-one-mutation cases. Through conventional molecular dynamics (cMD) simulation in conjunction with MM/PB(GB)SA and umbrella sampling (US) in conjunction with contact network analysis (CNA), the resistance mechanisms of the in-pocket, out-pocket, and multiple-site mutations were revealed. Especially for the out-pocket mutation, a possible transfer chain of the mutation effect was revealed, and the reason why different drugs exhibited various sensitivities to the same mutation was also uncovered. The proposed mechanisms may be prevalent in various drug resistance cases.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
2 articles.
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