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Record W4409682471 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-96410-y

Computer aided study on cyclic tetrapeptide based ligands as potential inhibitors of Proplasmepsin IV

2025· article· en· W4409682471 on OpenAlexaff
Abel Kolawole Oyebamiji, Sunday Adewale Akintelu, Samson Olusegun Afolabi, Emmanuel T. Akintayo, Cecilia O. Akintayo, Oluwakemi Ebenezer

Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMalaria Research and Control
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaConcordia University of Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTetrapeptideComputational biologyChemistryComputer scienceCombinatorial chemistryPharmacologyBioinformaticsMedicineBiochemistryBiologyPeptide

Abstract

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The belief that we could always stay ahead of the pathogens was forced upon scientists in the whole world by antimicrobial resistance. According to several reports, there are medications that are yet to be made public in the pipeline and there are little motivations to design novel antimicrobials to combat the worldwide drug resistance issues. Presently, the desire to design and develop efficient novel anti-bacterial agents is very high by researchers; thus, this study focuses on identifying the interactions between the studied ligands and Proplasmepsin IV, as well as examining the relationship between the calculated descriptors and binding affinities. This work shows successful prediction of the reacting and inhibiting efficiency of ten (10) cyclic tetra-peptides using insilico method. The optimization of the studied compound revealed the proficiency of methyl (3S,9S,12S)-12-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-9-(2-(methylthio)ethyl)-5,8,11-trioxo-4,7,10-triaza-1(1,3)-benzenacyclotridecaphane-3-carboxylate (F5) and 2-((3S,9S,12S)-12-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-3-(methoxycarbonyl)-5,8,11-trioxo-4,7,10-triaza-1(1,3)-benzenacyclotridecaphane-9-yl)acetic acid (F7) to react more than the remaining molecules in term of HOMO and LUMO energies. In comparison, compound F9 demonstrated a higher inhibitory activity than the reference drug, Chloroquine, based on binding affinity. Molecular dynamics simulations over a 100 ns period further explored the binding affinity between F9 and the reference drug. The results showed that the reference drug (- 21.91 ± 1.16 kcal/mol) had a slightly stronger binding affinity than the F9_complex (- 13.85 ± 0.72 kcal/mol). Additionally, pharmacokinetic studies for F9 were compared with those of the reference compound and presented accordingly.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.091
Threshold uncertainty score0.524

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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