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ArticlePloS one2015

Fully Flexible Docking of Medium Sized Ligand Libraries with RosettaLigand.

Samuel DeLuca, Karen Khar, Jens Meiler

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Samuel DeLucaDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America.
Karen KharCenter for Computational Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States of America.
Jens MeilerDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America.

Funding

Membrane Protein Structure Elucidation from sparse NMR data (KAMP)R01GM080403 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2007 to 2019
$3.0M
Computational Design of Protein-Ligand Interfaces - a Therapeutic StrategyR01GM099842 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
Small Molecule Probes to Investigate Structure and Function of Y ReceptorsR01DK097376 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS, WEAVER, C DAVID · 2013 to 2015
$1.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK097376NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080403NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099842
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RosettaLigand has been successfully used to predict binding poses in protein-small molecule complexes. However, the RosettaLigand docking protocol is comparatively slow in identifying an initial starting pose for the small molecule (ligand) making it unfeasible for use in virtual High Throughput Screening (vHTS). To overcome this limitation, we developed a new sampling approach for placing the ligand in the protein binding site during the initial 'low-resolution' docking step. It combines the translational and rotational adjustments to the ligand pose in a single transformation step. The new algorithm is both more accurate and more time-efficient. The docking success rate is improved by 10-15% in a benchmark set of 43 protein/ligand complexes, reducing the number of models that typically need to be generated from 1000 to 150. The average time to generate a model is reduced from 50 seconds to 10 seconds. As a result we observe an effective 30-fold speed increase, making RosettaLigand appropriate for docking medium sized ligand libraries. We demonstrate that this improved initial placement of the ligand is critical for successful prediction of an accurate binding position in the 'high-resolution' full atom refinement step.

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AlgorithmsBinding SitesModels, MolecularMolecular Docking SimulationProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesProteinsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID26207742
PMCPMC4514752

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