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Docking of flexible ligands to flexible receptors in solution by molecular dynamics simulation

✍ Scribed by Massimiliano Mangoni; Danilo Roccatano; Alfredo Di Nola

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 295 KB
Volume: 35
Category: Article
ISSN: 0887-3585
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(19990501)35:2<153::aid-prot2>3.0.co;2-e

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✦ Synopsis

In this paper, a method of simulating the docking of small flexible ligands to flexible receptors in water is reported. The method is based on molecular dynamics simulations and is an extension of an algorithm previously reported by Di Nola et al. (Di Nola et al., Proteins 1994;19:174-182). The method allows a fast exploration of the receptor surface, using a high temperature of the center of mass translational motion, while the ligand internal motions, the solvent, and the receptor are simulated at room temperature. In addition, the method allows a fast center of mass motion of the ligand, even in solution. The dampening effect of the solvent can be overcome by applying different weights to the interactions between system subsets (solvent, receptor, and ligand). Specific ligand-receptor distances have been used to compare the results of the simulations with the crystal structure. The method is applied, as a test system, to the docking of the phosphocholine to the immunoglobulin McPC603. The results show the similarity of structure between the complex in solution and in the crystal.

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