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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2020

GemSpot: A Pipeline for Robust Modeling of Ligands into Cryo-EM Maps.

Michael J Robertson, Gydo C P van Zundert, Kenneth Borrelli, Georgios Skiniotis

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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4 authors.

Michael J RobertsonDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Gydo C P van ZundertSchrödinger, New York, NY 10036, USA.
Kenneth BorrelliSchrödinger, New York, NY 10036, USA.
Georgios SkiniotisDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: yiorgo@stanford.edu.

Funding

Structural Basis of Signal Instigation Through Metabotropic Glutamate ReceptorsR01NS092695 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SKINIOTIS, GEORGIOS · 2015 to 2019
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NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS092695
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Producing an accurate atomic model of biomolecule-ligand interactions from maps generated by cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) often presents challenges inherent to the methodology and the dynamic nature of ligand binding. Here, we present GemSpot, an automated pipeline of computational chemistry methods that take into account EM map potentials, quantum mechanics energy calculations, and water molecule site prediction to generate candidate poses and provide a measure of the degree of confidence. The pipeline is validated through several published cryo-EM structures of complexes in different resolution ranges and various types of ligands. In all cases, at least one identified pose produced both excellent interactions with the target and agreement with the map. GemSpot will be valuable for the robust identification of ligand poses and drug discovery efforts through cryo-EM.

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Computational ChemistryCryoelectron MicroscopyLigandsModels, MolecularMolecular Docking SimulationProtein ConformationProteinsQuantum TheoryLigandsProteinsCryoEMdockingdrug discoverymodelingprotein-ligand complex

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PMID32413291
PMCPMC7272260

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