Flexible Docking of Peptide Ligands to Proteins
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Computer-simulated ligand binding or docking is a useful technique when studying intermolecular interactions or designing
new pharmaceutical products. In general, the purpose of a docking experiment is twofold: (1) to find the most probable translational,
rotational, and conformational juxtaposition of a given ligand-receptor pair, and (2) to evaluate the relative goodness-of-fit
for different computed complexes. From a computational point of view, these are extremely difficult tasks and a satisfactory
general solution to the docking problem has not yet been found. To explain this, let us consider the naïve approach in which
a ligand is systematically moved relative to a given receptor. Here, the term “moved” must be understood as the combination
of all possible translational, rotational, and conformational changes of the ligand. These operations define the so-called
“docking box,” i.e., the a priori accessible phase space of the ligand, having dimensions 3+3+N (three translational, three rotational and N conformational degrees of freedom). While the six topological dimensions already seriously impede a docking simulation, the
a priori conformational flexibility of the ligand and the receptor certainly poses the hardest (and least studied) problem. A large part of this chapter is devoted to a possible
solution to this problem.
Affiliation(s): (2) Interdisciplinary Research Center, Kortrijk, Belgium
(3) Center for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Leuven, Belgium
(4) Beagle bvla., Antwerpen, Belgium
(3) Center for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Leuven, Belgium
(4) Beagle bvla., Antwerpen, Belgium
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 143 | Pub. Date: Aug-15-2000 | Page Range: 359-376 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-368-2:359
Subject: Protein Science
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