New Approach to Molecular Docking and Its Application to Virtual Screening of Chemical Databases

This paper describes the validation of a molecular docking method and its application to virtual database screening. The code flexibly docks ligand molecules into rigid receptor structures using a tabu search methodology driven by an empirically derived function for estimating the binding affinity o...

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Published in:Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 2000-03, Vol.40 (2), p.254-262
Main Authors: Baxter, Carol A, Murray, Christopher W, Waszkowycz, Bohdan, Li, Jin, Sykes, Richard A, Bone, Richard G. A, Perkins, Tim D. J, Wylie, William
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Language:English
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Summary:This paper describes the validation of a molecular docking method and its application to virtual database screening. The code flexibly docks ligand molecules into rigid receptor structures using a tabu search methodology driven by an empirically derived function for estimating the binding affinity of a protein−ligand complex. The docking method has been tested on 70 ligand−receptor complexes for which the experimental binding affinity and binding geometry are known. The lowest energy geometry produced by the docking protocol is within 2.0 Å root mean square of the experimental binding mode for 79% of the complexes. The method has been applied to the problem of virtual database screening to identify known ligands for thrombin, factor Xa, and the estrogen receptor. A database of 10 000 randomly chosen “druglike” molecules has been docked into the three receptor structures. In each case known receptor ligands were included in the study. The results showed good separation between the predicted binding affinities of the known ligand set and the database subset.
ISSN:0095-2338
1549-960X
1520-5142
DOI:10.1021/ci990440d