Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2022 Jun 1;33(6):1061-1072. doi: 10.1021/jasms.2c00111. Epub 2022 May 11.
Drug metabolite identification is a bottleneck of drug metabolism studies due to the need for time-consuming chromatographic separation and structural confirmation. Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS), on the other hand, separates analytes on a rapid (millisecond) time scale and enables the measurement of collision cross section (CCS), a unique physical property related to an ion's gas-phase size and shape, which can be used as an additional parameter for identification of unknowns. A current limitation to the application of IM-MS to the identification of drug metabolites is the lack of reference CCS values. In this work, we assembled a large-scale database of drug and drug metabolite CCS values using high-throughput in vitro drug metabolite generation and a rapid IM-MS analysis with automated data processing. Subsequently, we used this database to train a machine learning-based CCS prediction model, employing a combination of conventional 2D molecular descriptors and novel 3D descriptors, achieving high prediction accuracies (0.8-2.2% median relative error on test set data). The inclusion of 3D information in the prediction model enables the prediction of different CCS values for different protomers, conformers, and positional isomers, which is not possible using conventional 2D descriptors. The prediction models, dmCCS, are available at https://CCSbase.net/dmccs_predictions.
药物代谢物鉴定是药物代谢研究的一个瓶颈,因为需要耗时的色谱分离和结构确证。而离子淌度-质谱(IM-MS)则可以在快速(毫秒)时间尺度上分离分析物,并能够测量碰撞截面(CCS),这是一个与离子气相大小和形状相关的独特物理性质,可以作为鉴定未知物的附加参数。目前,IM-MS 应用于药物代谢物鉴定的一个限制因素是缺乏参考 CCS 值。在这项工作中,我们使用高通量体外药物代谢物生成和快速 IM-MS 分析以及自动化数据处理,组装了一个大规模的药物和药物代谢物 CCS 值数据库。随后,我们使用该数据库训练了基于机器学习的 CCS 预测模型,采用了传统的 2D 分子描述符和新颖的 3D 描述符的组合,实现了较高的预测精度(在测试集数据上的中位数相对误差为 0.8-2.2%)。预测模型中包含 3D 信息,可以预测不同手性、构象和位置异构体的不同 CCS 值,这是使用传统的 2D 描述符无法实现的。预测模型 dmCCS 可在 https://CCSbase.net/dmccs_predictions 上获取。