Calculation of binding free energies of inhibitors to plasmepsin II

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 32(2011), 9 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 1801-12
1. Verfasser: Steiner, Denise (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Oostenbrink, Chris, Diederich, François, Zürcher, Martina, van Gunsteren, Wilfred F
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2011
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational chemistry
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Ligands Protease Inhibitors Protozoan Proteins Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases EC 3.4.23.- plasmepsin II EC 3.4.23.39
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An understanding at the atomic level of the driving forces of inhibitor binding to the protein plasmepsin (PM) II would be of interest to the development of drugs against malaria. To this end, three state of the art computational techniques to compute relative free energies-thermodynamic integration (TI), Hamiltonian replica-exchange (H-RE) TI, and comparison of bound versus unbound ligand energy and entropy-were applied to a protein-ligand system of PM II and several exo-3-amino-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes and the resulting relative free energies were compared with values derived from experimental IC(50) values. For this large and flexible protein-ligand system, the simulations could not properly sample the relevant parts of the conformational space of the bound ligand, resulting in failure to reproduce the experimental data. Yet, the use of Hamiltonian replica exchange in conjunction with thermodynamic integration resulted in enhanced convergence and computational efficiency compared to standard thermodynamic integration calculations. The more approximate method of calculating only energetic and entropic contributions of the ligand in its bound and unbound states from conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reproduced the major trends in the experimental binding free energies, which could be rationalized in terms of energetic and entropic characteristics of the different structural and physico-chemical properties of the protein and ligands
Beschreibung:Date Completed 24.08.2011
Date Revised 26.04.2011
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1096-987X
DOI:10.1002/jcc.21761