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Record W4417428524 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67403-2

Enantioselective protein affinity selection mass spectrometry (E-ASMS)

2025· article· en· W4417428524 on OpenAlexafffund
Xiaoyun Wang, Jianxian Sun, Shabbir Ahmad, Diwen Yang, Fengling Li, U Hang Chan, Hongcheng Zeng, Conrad V. Simoben, Stuart R. Green, Madhushika Silva, Scott Houliston, Aiping Dong, Albina Bolotokova, Elisa Gibson, Maria Kutera, Pegah Ghiabi, Ivan S. Kondratov, Tetiana Matviyuk, Alexander Chuprina, Danai Mavridi, Christopher Lenz, Andreas C. Joerger, Benjamin P. Brown, R. L. Heath, Wyatt W. Yue, Lucy K. Robbie, Tyler S. Beyett, Susanne Müller, Stefan Knapp, Dafydd R. Owen, Rachel Harding, Matthieu Schapira, Peter J. Brown, Vijayaratnam Santhakumar, Suzanne Ackloo, C.H. Arrowsmith, A.M. Edwards, Levon Halabelian

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity Health NetworkPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreThe Scarborough HospitalStructural Genomics ConsortiumUniversity of Toronto
FundersNational Institute on AgingNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSchool of Medicine, Emory UniversityEmory UniversityEuropean Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and AssociationsUniversity of TorontoNational Institutes of HealthMcGill UniversityAlexander S. Onassis Public Benefit FoundationGovernment of CanadaBristol-Myers SquibbBayerGenentechDeutsche KrebshilfeWinship Cancer InstitutePfizer
KeywordsEnantioselective synthesisMass spectrometryHigh-throughput screeningCharacterization (materials science)Selection (genetic algorithm)Plasma protein bindingIdentification (biology)Target proteinProtein–protein interaction

Abstract

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We report an enantioselective protein affinity selection mass spectrometry screening approach (E-ASMS) that enables the detection of weak binders, informs on selectivity, and generates orthogonal confirmation of binding. After method development with control proteins, we screen 31 human proteins against a designed library of 8,217 chiral compounds. We identify 16 binders to 12 targets, including many proteins predicted to be “challenging to ligand”, and confirm their interactions through orthogonal biophysical assays. Seven binders to six targets display enantioselective binding, with KD values ranging from 3 to 20 µM. Binders for four targets (DDB1, WDR91, WDR55, and HAT1) are selected for in-depth characterization using X-ray crystallography. In all four cases, the mechanisms underlying enantioselectivity are readily explained. These results demonstrate that E-ASMS enables the identification and characterization of selective and weakly binding ligands for novel protein targets with unprecedented throughput and sensitivity. High-throughput chemical ligand discovery is challenged by false positives. Here, authors introduce a scalable enantioselective affinity-selection mass spectrometry approach for proteome-wide ligand discovery with high sensitivity and selectivity

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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 head0.296
Teacher spread0.286 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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