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Effect of Atomic Charges on Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient Using Alchemical Free Energy Calculation

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MOLECULES
卷 23, 期 2, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23020425

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MD simulation; thermodynamic integration; solvation environment; atomic charge

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The octanol-water partition coefficient (logP(ow)) is an important index for measuring solubility, membrane permeability, and bioavailability in the drug discovery field. In this paper, the logP(ow) values of 58 compounds were predicted by alchemical free energy calculation using molecular dynamics simulation. In free energy calculations, the atomic charges of the compounds are always fixed. However, they must be recalculated for each solvent. Therefore, three different sets of atomic charges were tested using quantum chemical calculations, taking into account vacuum, octanol, and water environments. The calculated atomic charges in the different environments do not necessarily influence the correlation between calculated and experimentally measured Delta G(water) values. The largest correlation coefficient values of the solvation free energy in water and octanol were 0.93 and 0.90, respectively. On the other hand, the correlation coefficient of logP(ow) values calculated from free energies, the largest of which was 0.92, was sensitive to the combination of the solvation free energies calculated from the calculated atomic charges. These results reveal that the solvent assumed in the atomic charge calculation is an important factor determining the accuracy of predicted logP(ow) values.

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