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Effects of initial conformations of small ligands on computational docking accuracies(1) Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1, Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan (2) Kitasato University, 5-9-1, Sirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8641, Japan Abstarct: Computational ligand docking is one of the most important techniques of Structure-Based Drug Design, which makes the most of 3D-structures of drug target proteins determined by experimental studies, such as NMR or crystallographic analyses for the drug discovery and development. In this study, the effects of initial conformations of ligands on computational docking were investigated, and appropriate settings of conditions for computational docking were determined. Five types of initial conformations were prepared, and docking calculations were carried out by using each conformation as inputs. Furthermore, several settings of docking parameters were used (default, accurate, high throughput, etc), and robust settings for various initial structures were investigated. GOLD and eHiTS were used as docking software, and structurally known protein-ligand complexes were used as test set. Root mean square deviations between computational and experimental structures (RMSD) were adopted for criteria for evaluations, and the docking pose with RMSD < 2.0 Å were defined as "reasonable poses". When at least one of the generated poses by a docking trial was reasonable, the trial was defined as "success", and when the top ranked pose, i.e. the pose with the lowest binding free energy, was reasonable, the trial was defined as "top pose success". The search abilities of docking were evaluated by "success rate" and "top pose success rate". As the results, bad initial conformations, which were much different from crystal ligand structures, cause the worst success rate and the worst top pose success rate in all initial conformations. Comparing GOLD and eHiTS, eHiTS was better than GOLD to obtain reasonable poses regardless of rankings, but GOLD was better to obtain reasonable top poses. Keywords: computer-aided drug design, conformational |
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