Automated docking to multiple target structures: Incorporation of protein mobility and structural water heterogeneity in AutoDock
- 15 November 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics
- Vol. 46 (1), 34-40
- https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.10028
Abstract
Protein motion and heterogeneity of structural waters are approximated in ligand‐docking simulations, using an ensemble of protein structures. Four methods of combining multiple target structures within a single grid‐based lookup table of interaction energies are tested. The method is evaluated using complexes of 21 peptidomimetic inhibitors with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV‐1) protease. Several of these structures show motion of an arginine residue, which is essential for binding of large inhibitors. A structural water is also present in 20 of the structures, but it must be absent in the remaining one for proper binding. Mean and minimum methods perform poorly, but two weighted average methods permit consistent and accurate ligand docking, using a single grid representation of the target protein structures. Proteins 2002;46:34–40.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (P01 GM48870)
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