학술논문

Learning Relationships Between Chemical and Physical Stability for Peptide Drug Development
Document Type
Report
Source
Pharmaceutical Research. March, 2023, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p701, 10 p.
Subject
Machine learning
Peptides
Language
English
ISSN
0724-8741
Abstract
Purpose or Objective Chemical and physical stabilities are two key features considered in pharmaceutical development. Chemical stability is typically reported as a combination of potency and degradation product. Moreover, fluorescent reporter Thioflavin-T is commonly used to measure physical stability. Executing stability studies is a lengthy process and requires extensive resources. To reduce the resources and shorten the process for stability studies during the development of a drug product, we introduce a machine learning-based model for predicting the chemical stability over time using both formulation conditions as well as aggregation curves. Methods In this work, we develop the relationships between the formulation, stability timepoint, and the chemical stability measurements and evaluated the performance on a random test set. We have developed a multilayer perceptron (MLP) for total degradation prediction and a random forest (RF) model for potency. Results The coefficient of determination (R.sup.2) of 0.945 and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.421 were achieved on the test set when using MLP for total degradation. Similarly, we achieved a R.sup.2 of 0.908 and MAE of 1.435 when predicting potency using the RF model. When physical stability measurements are included into the MLP model, the MAE of predicting TD decreases to 0.148. Using a similar strategy for potency prediction, the MAE decreases to 0.705 for the RF model. Conclusions We conclude two important points: first, chemical stability can be modeled using machine learning techniques and second there is a relationship between the physical stability of a peptide and its chemical stability. Graphical Abstract
Author(s): Jonathan Fine [sup.1] [sup.2], Prageeth R. Wijewardhane [sup.1], Sheik Dawood Beer Mohideen [sup.1], Katelyn Smith [sup.2], Jameson R. Bothe [sup.2], Yogita Krishnamachari [sup.3], Alexandra Andrews [sup.2], Yong Liu [sup.4], [...]