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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Volume 54, Issue 8, Pages 2371-2379Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ci500209e
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) [SFRH/BD/84922/2012]
- FCT [EXCL/QEQ-COM/0394/2012]
- National Institutes of Health [R01-GM069832-01]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/84922/2012] Funding Source: FCT
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Zinc is present in a wide variety of proteins and is important in the metabolism of most organisms. Zinc metalloenzymes are therapeutically relevant targets in diseases such as cancer, heart disease, bacterial infection, and Alzheimer's disease. In most cases a drug molecule targeting such enzymes establishes an interaction that coordinates with the zinc ion. Thus, accurate prediction of the interaction of ligands with zinc is an important aspect of computational docking and virtual screening against zinc containing proteins. We have extended the Auto Dock force field to include a specialized potential describing the interactions of zinc-coordinating ligands. This potential describes both the energetic and geometric components of the interaction. The new force field, named AutoDock4(Zn), was calibrated on a data set of 292 crystal complexes containing zinc. Redocking experiments show that the force field provides significant improvement in performance in both free energy of binding estimation as well as in root-mean-square deviation from the crystal structure pose. The new force field has been implemented in AutoDock without modification to the source code.
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