Computational drug design accommodating receptor flexibility: the relaxed complex scheme

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 May 22;124(20):5632-3. doi: 10.1021/ja0260162.

Abstract

A novel computational methodology for drug design that accommodates receptor flexibility is described. This "relaxed-complex" method recognizes that ligand may bind to conformations that occur only rarely in the dynamics of the receptor. We have shown that the ligand-enzyme binding modes are very sensitive to the enzyme conformations, and our approach is capable of finding the best ligand-enzyme complexes. This new method serves as the computational analog of the experimental "SAR by NMR" and "tether" methods, which permit a building block approach for constructing a very potent drug.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulation
  • Drug Design*
  • Ligands
  • Models, Molecular
  • Protein Conformation
  • Receptors, Drug / chemistry*
  • Tacrolimus Binding Proteins / chemistry
  • Thermodynamics

Substances

  • Ligands
  • Receptors, Drug
  • Tacrolimus Binding Proteins