Expanding molecular modeling and design tools to non-natural sidechains.

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serval:BIB_7B7B0EDE9303
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Expanding molecular modeling and design tools to non-natural sidechains.
Journal
Journal of Computational Chemistry
Author(s)
Gfeller D., Michielin O., Zoete V.
ISSN
1096-987X (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0192-8651
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2012
Volume
33
Number
18
Pages
1525-1535
Language
english
Abstract
Protein-protein interactions encode the wiring diagram of cellular signaling pathways and their deregulations underlie a variety of diseases, such as cancer. Inhibiting protein-protein interactions with peptide derivatives is a promising way to develop new biological and therapeutic tools. Here, we develop a general framework to computationally handle hundreds of non-natural amino acid sidechains and predict the effect of inserting them into peptides or proteins. We first generate all structural files (pdb and mol2), as well as parameters and topologies for standard molecular mechanics software (CHARMM and Gromacs). Accurate predictions of rotamer probabilities are provided using a novel combined knowledge and physics based strategy. Non-natural sidechains are useful to increase peptide ligand binding affinity. Our results obtained on non-natural mutants of a BCL9 peptide targeting beta-catenin show very good correlation between predicted and experimental binding free-energies, indicating that such predictions can be used to design new inhibitors. Data generated in this work, as well as PyMOL and UCSF Chimera plug-ins for user-friendly visualization of non-natural sidechains, are all available at http://www.swisssidechain.ch. Our results enable researchers to rapidly and efficiently work with hundreds of non-natural sidechains.
Keywords
Amino Acids/chemistry, Computer Simulation, Drug Design, Molecular Structure, Protein Binding, Proteins/chemistry, Thermodynamics
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Web of science
Create date
29/06/2012 18:28
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20/08/2019 15:37
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