Title
Inhibitor docking screened by the modified SAFE_p scoring function: application to cyclic urea HIV-1 PR inhibitors.
Abstract
Our laboratory has in the past developed a method for the prediction of ligand binding free energies to proteins, referred to as SAFE-p (Solvent free energy predictor). Previously, we have applied this protocol for the prediction of the binding free energy of peptidic and cyclic urea HIV-1 PR inhibitors, whose X-ray structures bound to enzyme are known. In this work, we present the first account of a docking simulation, where the ligand conformations were screened and inhibitor ranking was predicted on the basis of a modified SAFE-p approach, for a set of cyclic urea-HIV-1 PR complexes whose structures are not known. We show that the optimal dielectric constant for docking is rather high, in line with the values needed to reproduce some protein residue properties, like pKa's. Our protocol is able to reproduce most of the observed binding ranking, even in the case that the components of the equation are not fitted to experimental data. Partition of the binding free energy into pocket and residue contributions sheds light into the importance of the inhibitor's fragments and on the prediction of 'hot spots" for resistance mutations. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1002/jcc.20741
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
inhibitor docking,HIV-1PR,binding free energy,scoring function
Plasma protein binding,Binding site,Docking (dog),Molecule,Amino acid,Ligand (biochemistry),Ligand,Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Static electricity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
13
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.50
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Santiago Vilar11069.12
M. Carmen Villaverde251.65
Fredy Sussman351.65