Hydrogen Bonds in Protein-Ligand Complexes
Fast and reliable evaluation of the hydrogen bond potential energy has a significant impact in the drug design and development since it allows the assessment of large databases of organic molecules in virtual screening projects focused on a protein of interest. Semi-empirical force fields implemente...
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Published in | Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) Vol. 2053; p. 93 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
01.01.2019
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Summary: | Fast and reliable evaluation of the hydrogen bond potential energy has a significant impact in the drug design and development since it allows the assessment of large databases of organic molecules in virtual screening projects focused on a protein of interest. Semi-empirical force fields implemented in molecular docking programs make it possible the evaluation of protein-ligand binding affinity where the hydrogen bond potential is a common term used in the calculation. In this chapter, we describe the concepts behind the programs used to predict hydrogen bond potential energy employing semi-empirical force fields as the ones available in the programs AMBER, AutoDock4, TreeDock, and ReplicOpter. We described here the 12-10 potential and applied it to evaluate the binding affinity for an ensemble of crystallographic structures for which experimental data about binding affinity are available. |
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ISSN: | 1940-6029 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4939-9752-7_7 |