Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-AIDED MOLECULAR DESIGN
Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 695-706Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10822-016-9941-0
Keywords
Drug discovery; Virtual screening; D3R; Induced fit; Affinity ranking; Pose prediction
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- National Institution of Health [2GM097082]
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Induced fit or protein flexibility can make a given structure less useful for docking and/or scoring. The 2015 Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) Grand Challenge provided a unique opportunity to prospectively test optimal strategies for virtual screening in these type of targets: heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), a protein with multiple ligand-induced binding modes; and mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 4 (MAP4K4), a kinase with a large flexible pocket. Using previously known co-crystal structures, we tested predictions from methods that keep the receptor structure fixed and used (a) multiple receptor/ligand co-crystals as binding templates for minimization or docking (close), (b) methods that align or dock to a single receptor (cross), and (c) a hybrid approach that chose from multiple bound ligands as initial templates for minimization to a single receptor (min-cross). Pose prediction using our close models resulted in average ligand RMSDs of 0.32 and 1.6 for HSP90 and MAP4K4, respectively, the most accurate models of the community-wide challenge. On the other hand, affinity ranking using our cross methods performed well overall despite the fact that a fixed receptor cannot model ligand-induced structural changes,. In addition, close methods that leverage the co-crystals of the different binding modes of HSP90 also predicted the best affinity ranking. Our studies suggest that analysis of changes on the receptor structure upon ligand binding can help select an optimal virtual screening strategy.
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