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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Reduction of false positives in structure-based virtual screening when receptor plasticity is considered.

Yaw Awuni, Yuguang Mu

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yaw AwuniSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore. yaw002@e.ntu.edu.sg.
Yuguang MuSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore. ygmu@ntu.edu.sg.
Nanyang Technological University · SG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structure-based virtual screening for selecting potential drug candidates is usually challenged by how numerous false positives in a molecule library are excluded when receptor plasticity is considered. In this study, based on the binding energy landscape theory, a hypothesis that a true inhibitor can bind to different conformations of the binding site favorably was put forth, and related strategies to defeat this challenge were devised; reducing false positives when receptor plasticity is considered. The receptor in the study is the influenza A nucleoprotein, whose oligomerization is a requirement for RNA binding. The structural flexibility of influenza A nucleoprotein was explored by molecular dynamics simulations. The resultant distinctive structures and the crystal structure were used as receptor models in docking exercises in which two binding sites, the tail-loop binding pocket and the RNA binding site, were targeted with the Otava PrimScreen1 diversity-molecule library using the GOLD software. The intersection ligands that were listed in the top-ranked molecules from all receptor models were selected. Such selection strategy successfully distinguished high-affinity and low-affinity control molecules added to the molecule library. This work provides an applicable approach for reducing false positives and selecting true ligands from molecule libraries.

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Models, ChemicalModels, MolecularBinding SitesComputer SimulationCrystallography, X-RayDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalFalse Positive ReactionsMolecular Docking SimulationNucleocapsid ProteinsProtein ConformationRNA-Binding ProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesSoftwareStructure-Activity RelationshipViral Core ProteinsNP protein, Influenza A virusNucleocapsid ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesViral Core Proteins

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PMID25808156
PMCPMC6272817
OpenAlexW2135932124

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