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ArticleCommunications chemistry2022

An open-source molecular builder and free energy preparation workflow.

Mateusz K Bieniek, Ben Cree, Rachael Pirie, Joshua T Horton, Natalie J Tatum, Daniel J Cole

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Mateusz K Bieniek *School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3065-5417
Ben Cree *School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU UK.
Rachael PirieSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2449-3458
Joshua T HortonSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8694-7200
Natalie J TatumNewcastle University Centre for Cancer, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3878-9265
Daniel J ColeSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2933-0719

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated free energy calculations for the prediction of binding free energies of congeneric series of ligands to a protein target are growing in popularity, but building reliable initial binding poses for the ligands is challenging. Here, we introduce the open-source FEgrow workflow for building user-defined congeneric series of ligands in protein binding pockets for input to free energy calculations. For a given ligand core and receptor structure, FEgrow enumerates and optimises the bioactive conformations of the grown functional group(s), making use of hybrid machine learning/molecular mechanics potential energy functions where possible. Low energy structures are optionally scored using the gnina convolutional neural network scoring function, and output for more rigorous protein-ligand binding free energy predictions. We illustrate use of the workflow by building and scoring binding poses for ten congeneric series of ligands bound to targets from a standard, high quality dataset of protein-ligand complexes. Furthermore, we build a set of 13 inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease from the literature, and use free energy calculations to retrospectively compute their relative binding free energies. FEgrow is freely available at https://github.com/cole-group/FEgrow, along with a tutorial.

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Computational chemistryStructure-based drug design

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PMID36320862
PMCPMC9607723

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