Title
A challenging system: Free energy prediction for factor Xa.
Abstract
Factor Xa (fXa) is a promising target for antithrombotic drugs. Recently, we presented a molecular dynamics study on fXa, which highlighted the need for a careful system setup to obtain stable simulations. Here, we show that these simulations can be used to predict the free energy of binding of several fXa inhibitors. We tested molecular mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann surface area, molecular mechanics/Generalized Born surface area, and linear interaction energy (LIE) on a small data set of fXa ligands. The continuum solvent approaches only yield satisfying correlations to the experimental results if some of the water molecules are explicitly included in the free energy calculations. LIE gave reasonable results if a sufficiently large data set is used. In general, our procedure of setting up the fXa simulation system enabled MD simulations, which produce adequate ensembles for free energy calculations. (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 32: 1743-1752, 2011
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/jcc.21758
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
free energy calculation,factor Xa,MM/PBSA,MM/GBSA,LIE,MD simulation
Statistical physics,Small data,Simulation system,Molecule,Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Molecular dynamics,Interaction energy,Boltzmann constant
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
8
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hannes G Wallnoefer181.24
Klaus R Liedl210217.06
Thomas Fox3182.70