期刊
PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
卷 69, 期 2, 页码 326-339出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21500
关键词
affinity prediction; conformational sampling; free energy of binding; Linear Response methods; metalloproteins; matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs); molecular dynamics; QM/MM methods; structure-based drug design; zinc coordination
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [P20 RR015566-040003, 1P20RR16741, P20 RR016471-066969, P20 RR016471-077190, P20 RR015566-010003, P20 RR016471-087234, P20 RR015566-030003, P20 RR015566-050003, P20 RR015566, P20 RR016471-055391, P20 RR016471, 1P20RR15566, P20 RR015566-020003] Funding Source: Medline
Design of selective ligands for closely related targets is becoming one of the most important tasks in the drug development. New tools, more precise than fast scoring functions and less demanding than sophisticated Free Energy Perturbation methods, are necessary to help accomplish this goal. The methods of intermediate complexity, characterizing individual contributions to the binding energy, have been an area of intense research in the past few years. Our recently developed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) modification of the Linear Response (LR) method describes the binding free energies as the sum of empirically weighted contributions of the QM/MM interaction energies and solvent-accessible surface areas for the time-averaged structures Of hydrated complexes, obtained by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The method was applied to published data on 27 inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3). The two descriptors explained 90% of variance in the inhibition constants with RMSE of 0.245 log units. The QM/MM treatment is indispensable for characterization of the systems lacking suitable force-field expressions. In this case, it provided characteristics of H-bonds of the inhibitors to Glu202, charges of binding site atoms, and accurate coordination geometries of the ligands to catalytic zinc. The geometries were constrained during the MD simulations, which characterized conformational flexibility of the complexes and helped in the elucidation of the binding differences for related compounds. A comparison of the presented QM/MM LR results with those previously published for inhibition of MMP-9 by the same set of ligands showed that the QM/MM LR approach was able to distinguish subtle differences in binding affinities for MMP-3 and MMP-9, which did not exceed one order of magnitude. This precision level makes the approach a useful tool for design of selective ligands to similar targets, because the results can be safely extrapolated to maximize selectivity.
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