Characterization of the KRas G12D-inhibitor interactions by HDX-MS and molecular dynamics simulations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) combined with mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful technique for studying changes in protein structure and dynamics upon ligand binding. Protein-ligand complexes can result in increased protection of peptide-bond amides in HDX indicating protein structure stabilization. We have characterized the interaction of lead inhibitor candidates towards the KRas G12D oncoprotein by intact protein and bottom-up HDX-MS in combination with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Significant differences in HDX protection were detected upon inhibitor binding in the flexible switch-II pocket of the protein. We identified a correlation between ligand binding affinities and corresponding changes in protection. MD simulations of the free and inhibitor-bound KRas G12D proteins revealed changes in the hydrogen bond network of backbone amides in the switch-II region upon inhibitor binding, explaining the observed HDX protection. This combined HDX-MS and MD analysis approach provides a mechanistic picture of the KRas G12D protein-inhibitor interactions and may be a useful tool for future drug design efforts.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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