Title
DEPACT and PACMatch: A Workflow of Designing De Novo Protein Pockets to Bind Small Molecules
Abstract
Engineering of new functional proteins such as enzymes and biosensors involves the design of new protein pockets for the specific binding of small molecules. Here, we report a workflow composed of two new computational methods to execute this task. The DEPACT (Design Pocket as a Cluster based on Templates) method is a data-driven approach to design and evaluate small-molecule-binding pockets as isolated clusters, while the PACMatch method is a computational approach to match pocket residues in a cluster model to positions on given protein scaffolds. Using DEPACT and its scoring function, pocket clusters of natural-pocket-like chemical compositions and protein-ligand interaction strength can be designed. DEPACT can design pocket clusters containing water- or metal-ion-mediated protein-ligand interactions. While being able to efficiently treat relatively large pocket cluster models (e.g., of around 10 pocket residues), PACMatch outperforms previous methods in test cases of recovering the native positions of pocket residues in natural enzyme-substrate complexes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1021/acs.jcim.1c01398
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
62
4
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1549-9596
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaoxi Chen100.34
Quan Chen200.34
Haiyan Liu300.34