L.Skjærven
et al.
(2013).
Accounting for conformational variability in protein-ligand docking with NMR-guided rescoring.
J Am Chem Soc,
135,
5819-5827.
PubMed id: 23565800
DOI: 10.1021/ja4007468
A key component to success in structure-based drug design is reliable
information on protein-ligand interactions. Recent development in NMR techniques
has accelerated this process by overcoming some of the limitations of X-ray
crystallography and computational protein-ligand docking. In this work we
present a new scoring protocol based on NMR-derived interligand INPHARMA NOEs to
guide the selection of computationally generated docking modes. We demonstrate
the performance in a range of scenarios, encompassing traditionally difficult
cases such as docking to homology models and ligand dependent domain
rearrangements. Ambiguities associated with sparse experimental information are
lifted by searching a consensus solution based on simultaneously fitting
multiple ligand pairs. This study provides a previously unexplored integration
between molecular modeling and experimental data, in which interligand NOEs
represent the key element in the rescoring algorithm. The presented protocol
should be widely applicable for protein-ligand docking also in a different
context from drug design and highlights the important role of NMR-based
approaches to describe intermolecular ligand-receptor interactions.