Title
Ensemble Docking in Drug Discovery: How Many Protein Configurations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations are Needed to Reproduce Known Ligand Binding?
Date Issued
27 June 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Kentucky
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Ensemble docking in drug discovery or chemical biology uses dynamical simulations of target proteins to generate binding site conformations for docking campaigns. We show that 600 ns molecular dynamics simulations of four G-protein-coupled receptors in their membrane environments generate ensembles of protein configurations that, collectively, are selected by 70 99% of the known ligands of these proteins. Therefore, the process of ligand recognition by conformational selection can be reproduced by combining molecular dynamics and docking calculations. Clustering of the molecular dynamics trajectories, however, does not necessarily identify the protein conformations that are most often selected by the ligands.
Start page
5189
End page
5195
Volume
123
Issue
25
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Farmacología, Farmacia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061995028
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
ISSN of the container
15206106
Sponsor(s)
J.B. acknowledges the University of Alabama in Huntsville for support. J.B., J.C.S., and W.E.F. acknowledge support from the University of Tennessee, the LDRD program of ORNL, and SRE, the Cancer Research Informatics Shared Resource Facility of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (P30CA177558).
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus