Exploring Multiple Binding Modes Using Confined Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics

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• 作者：Massimiliano Anselmi ; M. Teresa Pisabarro
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 11, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：11
• 期：8
• 页码：3906-3918
• 全文大小：622K
• ISSN：1549-9626

文摘

Molecular docking is extensively applied to determine the position of a ligand on its receptor despite the rather poor correspondence between docking scores and experimental binding affinities found in several studies, especially for systems structurally unrelated with those used in the scoring functions鈥?training sets. Here, we present a method for the prediction of binding modes and binding free energies, which uses replica exchange molecular dynamics in combination with a receptor-shaped piecewise potential, confining the ligand in the proximity of the receptor surface and limiting the accessible conformational space of interest. We assess our methodology with a set of protein receptor鈥搇igand test cases. In every case studied, the method is able to locate the ligand on the experimentally known receptor binding site, and it gives as output the binding free energy. The added value of our approach with respect to other available methods is that it quickly performs a conformational space search, providing a set of bound (or unbound) configurations, which can be used to determine phenomenological structural and energetic properties of an experimental binding state as a result of contributions provided by diversified multiple binding poses.