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ArticleJournal of computer-aided molecular design2014

Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) assisted pharmacophore modeling.

Wenbo Yu, Sirish Kaushik Lakkaraju, E Prabhu Raman, Alexander D MacKerell

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Wenbo YuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Sirish Kaushik Lakkaraju
E Prabhu Raman
Alexander D MacKerell

Funding

Restoration of Tumor Suppression Activity in Malignant MelanomaR01CA107331 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI WEBER, DAVID JOSEPH · 2006 to 2015
$5.4M
NCI NIH HHS CA107331NCI NIH HHS R01 CA107331
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Database screening using receptor-based pharmacophores is a computer-aided drug design technique that uses the structure of the target molecule (i.e. protein) to identify novel ligands that may bind to the target. Typically receptor-based pharmacophore modeling methods only consider a single or limited number of receptor conformations and map out the favorable binding patterns in vacuum or with a limited representation of the aqueous solvent environment, such that they may suffer from neglect of protein flexibility and desolvation effects. Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) is an approach that takes into account these, as well as other, properties to determine 3-dimensional maps of the functional group-binding patterns on a target receptor (i.e. FragMaps). In this study, a method to use the FragMaps to automatically generate receptor-based pharmacophore models is presented. It converts the FragMaps into SILCS pharmacophore features including aromatic, aliphatic, hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor chemical functionalities. The method generates multiple pharmacophore hypotheses that are then quantitatively ranked using SILCS grid free energies. The pharmacophore model generation protocol is validated using three different protein targets, including using the resulting models in virtual screening. Improved performance and efficiency of the SILCS derived pharmacophore models as compared to published docking studies, as well as a recently developed receptor-based pharmacophore modeling method is shown, indicating the potential utility of the approach in rational drug design.

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PMID24610239
PMCPMC4048638

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