KASSPer: Kinase Active Site Structure Prediction using Protein and Ligand Language Models and Its Application to Virtual Screening
Jang, W.; Shin, W.-H.
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MotivationStructure-based virtual screening (SBVS) is limited by the rigid-receptor assumption, which is particularly problematic for kinases that adopt multiple active-site conformations but are experimentally biased toward a single state. Although ensemble screening can address this limitation, it remains computationally expensive. ResultsWe introduce KASSPer (Kinase Active Site Structure Predictor), a framework that predicts kinase active-site conformational states using protein and compound language models. Given a kinase amino acid sequence and a ligand SMILES string, KASSPer enables ligand-specific conformer selection prior to SBVS, substantially reducing the computational cost associated with ensemble screening. Benchmarking on the DUD-E kinase subset demonstrates that KASSPer-guided screening consistently outperforms ensemble-based approaches across all evaluation metrics. Availability and ImplementationThe implementation for model loading and inference is available at the GitHub repository https://github.com/kucm-lsbi/KASSPer
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