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Barros EP, Ries B, Champion C, Rieder SR, Riniker S. Accounting for Solvation Correlation Effects on the Thermodynamics of Water Networks in Protein Cavities. J Chem Inf Model 2023; 63:1794-1805. [PMID: 36917685 PMCID: PMC10052353 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
Abstract
Macromolecular recognition and ligand binding are at the core of biological function and drug discovery efforts. Water molecules play a significant role in mediating the protein-ligand interaction, acting as more than just the surrounding medium by affecting the thermodynamics and thus the outcome of the binding process. As individual water contributions are impossible to measure experimentally, a range of computational methods have emerged to identify hydration sites in protein pockets and characterize their energetic contributions for drug discovery applications. Even though several methods model solvation effects explicitly, they focus on determining the stability of specific water sites independently and neglect solvation correlation effects upon replacement of clusters of water molecules, which typically happens in hit-to-lead optimization. In this work, we rigorously determine the conjoint effects of replacing all combinations of water molecules in protein binding pockets through the use of the RE-EDS multistate free-energy method, which combines Hamiltonian replica exchange (RE) and enveloping distribution sampling (EDS). Applications on the small bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor and four proteins of the bromodomain family illustrate the extent of solvation correlation effects on water thermodynamics, with the favorability of replacement of the water sites by pharmacophore probes highly dependent on the composition of the water network and the pocket environment. Given the ubiquity of water networks in biologically relevant protein targets, we believe our approach can be helpful for computer-aided drug discovery by providing a pocket-specific and a priori systematic consideration of solvation effects on ligand binding and selectivity.
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- Emilia P Barros
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Sobhia ME, Ghosh K, Sivangula S, Kumar S, Singh H. Identification of potential SARS-CoV-2 M pro inhibitors integrating molecular docking and water thermodynamics. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2022; 40:5079-5089. [PMID: 33413032 PMCID: PMC7876914 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1867642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global health emergency caused by a newly discovered coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The entire scientific community across the globe is working diligently to tackle this unprecedented challenge. In silico studies have played a crucial role in the current situation by expediting the process of identification of novel potential chemotypes targeting the viral receptors. In this study, we have made efforts to identify molecules that can potentially inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) using the high-resolution crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro. The SARS-CoV-2 Mpro has a large flexible binding pocket that can accommodate various chemically diverse ligands but a complete occupation of the binding cavity is necessary for efficient inhibition and stability. We augmented glide three-tier molecular docking protocol with water thermodynamics to screen molecules obtained from three different compound libraries. The diverse hits obtained through docking studies were scored against generated WaterMap to enrich the quality of results. Five molecules were selected from each compound library on the basis of scores and protein-ligand complementarity. Further MD simulations on the proposed molecules affirm the stability of these molecules in the complex. MM-GBSA results and intermolecular hydrogen bond analysis also confirm the thermodynamic stability of proposed molecules. This study also presumably steers the structure determination of many ligand-main protease complexes using x-ray diffraction methods.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- M. Elizabeth Sobhia
- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab, India
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Asquith CRM, Tizzard GJ, Bennett JM, Wells CI, Elkins JM, Willson TM, Poso A, Laitinen T. Targeting the Water Network in Cyclin G‐Associated Kinase (GAK) with 4‐Anilino‐quin(az)oline Inhibitors. ChemMedChem 2020; 15:1200-1215. [DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202000150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Christopher R. M. Asquith
- Department of Pharmacology, School of MedicineUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
- Structural Genomics Consortium, UNC Eshelman School of PharmacyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- UK National Crystallography Service, School of ChemistryUniversity of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
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- Structural Genomics Consortium and Target Discovery Institute Nuffield Department of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oxford Old Road Campus Research Building Oxford OX3 7DQ UK)
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, UNC Eshelman School of PharmacyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- Structural Genomics Consortium and Target Discovery Institute Nuffield Department of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oxford Old Road Campus Research Building Oxford OX3 7DQ UK)
- Structural Genomics ConsortiumUniversidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP Campinas São Paulo 13083-886 Brazil
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, UNC Eshelman School of PharmacyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Eastern Finland 70211 Kuopio Finland
- University Hospital Tübingen Department of Internal Medicine VIIIUniversity of Tübingen 72076 Tübingen Germany
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Eastern Finland 70211 Kuopio Finland
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Gropp C, Husch T, Trapp N, Reiher M, Diederich F. Wasserstoffbrücken-Netzwerke: molekulare Erkennung zyklischer Alkohole in enantiomerenreinen alleno-acetylenischen Käfigrezeptoren. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201810562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Cornelius Gropp
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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Gropp C, Husch T, Trapp N, Reiher M, Diederich F. Hydrogen-Bonded Networks: Molecular Recognition of Cyclic Alcohols in Enantiopure Alleno-Acetylenic Cage Receptors. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:16296-16301. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201810562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Cornelius Gropp
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zurich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie; ETH Zurich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zurich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie; ETH Zurich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie; ETH Zurich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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Guedes IA, Pereira FSS, Dardenne LE. Empirical Scoring Functions for Structure-Based Virtual Screening: Applications, Critical Aspects, and Challenges. Front Pharmacol 2018; 9:1089. [PMID: 30319422 PMCID: PMC6165880 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2018.01089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 09/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Structure-based virtual screening (VS) is a widely used approach that employs the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the target of interest in the design of new lead compounds from large-scale molecular docking experiments. Through the prediction of the binding mode and affinity of a small molecule within the binding site of the target of interest, it is possible to understand important properties related to the binding process. Empirical scoring functions are widely used for pose and affinity prediction. Although pose prediction is performed with satisfactory accuracy, the correct prediction of binding affinity is still a challenging task and crucial for the success of structure-based VS experiments. There are several efforts in distinct fronts to develop even more sophisticated and accurate models for filtering and ranking large libraries of compounds. This paper will cover some recent successful applications and methodological advances, including strategies to explore the ligand entropy and solvent effects, training with sophisticated machine-learning techniques, and the use of quantum mechanics. Particular emphasis will be given to the discussion of critical aspects and further directions for the development of more accurate empirical scoring functions.
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- Isabella A Guedes
- Grupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil
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- Grupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil
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- Grupo de Modelagem Molecular em Sistemas Biológicos, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil
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Cui D, Zhang BW, Matubayasi N, Levy RM. The Role of Interfacial Water in Protein-Ligand Binding: Insights from the Indirect Solvent Mediated Potential of Mean Force. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:512-526. [PMID: 29262255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Classical density functional theory (DFT) can be used to relate the thermodynamic properties of solutions to the indirect solvent mediated part of the solute-solvent potential of mean force (PMF). Standard, but powerful numerical methods can be used to estimate the solute-solvent PMF from which the indirect part can be extracted. In this work we show how knowledge of the direct and indirect parts of the solute-solvent PMF for water at the interface of a protein receptor can be used to gain insights about how to design tighter binding ligands. As we show, the indirect part of the solute-solvent PMF is equal to the sum of the 1-body (energy + entropy) terms in the inhomogeneous solvation theory (IST) expansion of the solvation free energy. To illustrate the effect of displacing interfacial water molecules with particular direct/indirect PMF signatures on the binding of ligands, we carry out simulations of protein binding with several pairs of congeneric ligands. We show that interfacial water locations that contribute favorably or unfavorably at the 1-body level (energy + entropy) to the solvation free energy of the solute can be targeted as part of the ligand design process. Water locations where the indirect PMF is larger in magnitude provide better targets for displacement when adding a functional group to a ligand core.
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- Di Cui
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University , Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.,Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University , Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Ganesan A, Coote ML, Barakat K. Molecular dynamics-driven drug discovery: leaping forward with confidence. Drug Discov Today 2017; 22:249-269. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2016.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Margreitter C, Reif MM, Oostenbrink C. Update on phosphate and charged post-translationally modified amino acid parameters in the GROMOS force field. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:714-720. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2016] [Revised: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Christian Margreitter
- Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering; Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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- Physics Department T38; Technical University of Munich; Munich Germany
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- Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering; Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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Zia SR, Gaspari R, Decherchi S, Rocchia W. Probing Hydration Patterns in Class-A GPCRs via Biased MD: The A2A Receptor. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:6049-6061. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- BiKi Technologies s.r.l., Via XX Settembre, 33/10, I-16121 Genova, Italy
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Ramsey S, Nguyen C, Salomon-Ferrer R, Walker RC, Gilson MK, Kurtzman T. Solvation thermodynamic mapping of molecular surfaces in AmberTools: GIST. J Comput Chem 2016; 37:2029-37. [PMID: 27317094 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 05/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
The expulsion of water from surfaces upon molecular recognition and nonspecific association makes a major contribution to the free energy changes of these processes. In order to facilitate the characterization of water structure and thermodynamics on surfaces, we have incorporated Grid Inhomogeneous Solvation Theory (GIST) into the CPPTRAJ toolset of AmberTools. GIST is a grid-based implementation of Inhomogeneous Fluid Solvation Theory, which analyzes the output from molecular dynamics simulations to map out solvation thermodynamic and structural properties on a high-resolution, three-dimensional grid. The CPPTRAJ implementation, called GIST-cpptraj, has a simple, easy-to-use command line interface, and is open source and freely distributed. We have also developed a set of open-source tools, called GISTPP, which facilitate the analysis of GIST output grids. Tutorials for both GIST-cpptraj and GISTPP can be found at ambermd.org. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Steven Ramsey
- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, 205 W Bedford Pk Blvd, Bronx, New York, 10468.,Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 10016
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-0736
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0505, La Jolla, California, 92093-0505
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0505, La Jolla, California, 92093-0505.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-0505
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-0736
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, 205 W Bedford Pk Blvd, Bronx, New York, 10468.,Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 10016.,Ph. D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 10016
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Haider K, Wickstrom L, Ramsey S, Gilson MK, Kurtzman T. Enthalpic Breakdown of Water Structure on Protein Active-Site Surfaces. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:8743-56. [PMID: 27169482 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
The principles underlying water reorganization around simple nonpolar solutes are well understood and provide the framework for the classical hydrophobic effect, whereby water molecules structure themselves around solutes so that they maintain favorable energetic contacts with both the solute and the other water molecules. However, for certain solute surface topographies, water molecules, due to their geometry and size, are unable to simultaneously maintain favorable energetic contacts with both the surface and neighboring water molecules. In this study, we analyze the solvation of ligand-binding sites for six structurally diverse proteins using hydration site analysis and measures of local water structure, in order to identify surfaces at which water molecules are unable to structure themselves in a way that maintains favorable enthalpy relative to bulk water. These surfaces are characterized by a high degree of enclosure, weak solute-water interactions, and surface constraints that induce unfavorable pair interactions between neighboring water molecules. Additionally, we find that the solvation of charged side chains in an active site generally results in favorable enthalpy but can also lead to pair interactions between neighboring water molecules that are significantly unfavorable relative to bulk water. We find that frustrated local structure can occur not only in apolar and weakly polar pockets, where overall enthalpy tends to be unfavorable, but also in charged pockets, where overall water enthalpy tends to be favorable. The characterization of local water structure in these terms may prove useful for evaluating the displacement of water from diverse protein active-site environments.
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- Kamran Haider
- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York , 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York 10468, United States
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- Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of Science, The City University of New York , 199 Chambers Street, New York, New York 10007, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York , 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York 10468, United States.,Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York , 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0736, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York , 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York 10468, United States.,Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York , 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016, United States.,Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York , 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016, United States
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Reif MM, Zacharias M. Rapid approximate calculation of water binding free energies in the whole hydration domain of (bio)macromolecules. J Comput Chem 2016; 37:1711-24. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Revised: 03/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Maria M. Reif
- Physics Department (T38); Technische Universität München; James-Franck-Str. 1 85748 Garching Germany
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- Physics Department (T38); Technische Universität München; James-Franck-Str. 1 85748 Garching Germany
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Lauber BS, Hardegger LA, Asraful AK, Lund BA, Dumele O, Harder M, Kuhn B, Engh RA, Diederich F. Addressing the Glycine-Rich Loop of Protein Kinases by a Multi-Facetted Interaction Network: Inhibition of PKA and a PKB Mimic. Chemistry 2015; 22:211-21. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Persch E, Dumele O, Diederich F. Molekulare Erkennung in chemischen und biologischen Systemen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201408487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Persch E, Dumele O, Diederich F. Molecular recognition in chemical and biological systems. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:3290-327. [PMID: 25630692 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 424] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Structure-based ligand design in medicinal chemistry and crop protection relies on the identification and quantification of weak noncovalent interactions and understanding the role of water. Small-molecule and protein structural database searches are important tools to retrieve existing knowledge. Thermodynamic profiling, combined with X-ray structural and computational studies, is the key to elucidate the energetics of the replacement of water by ligands. Biological receptor sites vary greatly in shape, conformational dynamics, and polarity, and require different ligand-design strategies, as shown for various case studies. Interactions between dipoles have become a central theme of molecular recognition. Orthogonal interactions, halogen bonding, and amide⋅⋅⋅π stacking provide new tools for innovative lead optimization. The combination of synthetic models and biological complexation studies is required to gather reliable information on weak noncovalent interactions and the role of water.
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- Elke Persch
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Departement Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich (Switzerland)
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Barandun LJ, Ehrmann FR, Zimmerli D, Immekus F, Giroud M, Grünenfelder C, Schweizer WB, Bernet B, Betz M, Heine A, Klebe G, Diederich F. Replacement of Water Molecules in a Phosphate Binding Site by Furanoside-Appendedlin-Benzoguanine Ligands of tRNA-Guanine Transglycosylase (TGT). Chemistry 2014; 21:126-35. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201405764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hansen N, van Gunsteren WF. Practical Aspects of Free-Energy Calculations: A Review. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:2632-47. [PMID: 26586503 DOI: 10.1021/ct500161f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Free-energy calculations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics simulations are nowadays used in a wide range of research areas including solvation thermodynamics, molecular recognition, and protein folding. The basic components of a free-energy calculation, that is, a suitable model Hamiltonian, a sampling protocol, and an estimator for the free energy, are independent of the specific application. However, the attention that one has to pay to these components depends considerably on the specific application. Here, we review six different areas of application and discuss the relative importance of the three main components to provide the reader with an organigram and to make nonexperts aware of the many pitfalls present in free energy calculations.
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- Niels Hansen
- Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering, University of Stuttgart , D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.,Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH , CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH , CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Mikulskis P, Genheden S, Ryde U. Effect of explicit water molecules on ligand-binding affinities calculated with the MM/GBSA approach. J Mol Model 2014; 20:2273. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2273-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Nguyen CN, Cruz A, Gilson MK, Kurtzman T. Thermodynamics of Water in an Enzyme Active Site: Grid-Based Hydration Analysis of Coagulation Factor Xa. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:2769-2780. [PMID: 25018673 PMCID: PMC4089914 DOI: 10.1021/ct401110x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Water molecules in the active site of an enzyme occupy a complex, heterogeneous environment, and the thermodynamic properties of active-site water are functions of position. As a consequence, it is thought that an enzyme inhibitor can gain affinity by extending into a region occupied by unfavorable water or lose affinity by displacing water from a region where it was relatively stable. Recent advances in the characterization of binding-site water, based on the analysis of molecular simulations with explicit water molecules, have focused largely on simplified representations of water as occupying well-defined hydration sites. Our grid-based treatment of hydration, GIST, offers a more complete picture of the complex distributions of water properties, but it has not yet been applied to proteins. This first application of GIST to protein-ligand modeling, for the case of Coagulation Factor Xa, shows that ligand scoring functions based on GIST perform at least as well as scoring functions based on a hydration-site approach (HSA), when applied to exactly the same simulation data. Interestingly, the displacement of energetically unfavorable water emerges as the dominant factor in the fitted scoring functions, for both GIST and HSA methods, while water entropy plays a secondary role, at least in the present context.
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Affiliation(s)
- Crystal N Nguyen
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0736, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York , 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York 10468, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0736, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York , 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York 10468, United States
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Barandun LJ, Immekus F, Kohler PC, Ritschel T, Heine A, Orlando P, Klebe G, Diederich F. High-affinity inhibitors ofZymomonas mobilistRNA–guanine transglycosylase through convergent optimization. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2013; 69:1798-807. [DOI: 10.1107/s0907444913014509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Huang D, Rossini E, Steiner S, Caflisch A. Structured water molecules in the binding site of bromodomains can be displaced by cosolvent. ChemMedChem 2013; 9:573-9. [PMID: 23804246 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201300156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
Bromodomains are α-helical bundles of approximately 110 residues that recognize acetylated lysine side chains mainly on histone tails. Bromodomains are known to play an important role in cancer and inflammation, and as such, significant efforts are being made to identify small-molecule inhibitors of these epigenetic reader proteins. Here, explicit solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of two bromodomains (BAZ2B and CREBBP) are used to analyze the water molecules that seem to be conserved at the bottom of the acetyl-lysine binding site in most crystal structures of bromodomains. The MD runs suggest that the occupancy of the structured water molecules is influenced by conformational transitions of the loop that connects helices Z and A. Additional simulations in the presence of 50 molecules of cosolvent (i.e., 440 mM of dimethylsulfoxide, methanol, or ethanol) indicate that some of the structured water molecules can be displaced transiently. The residence time in the acetyl-lysine binding site is calculated to be about 1 ns, 2-5 ns, and 10-30 ns for methanol, ethanol, and dimethylsulfoxide, respectively, while the affinity of the three cosolvents for BAZ2B and CREBBP is in the range of 50-500 mM. The results described have implications for ligand design, suggesting that only structured water molecules that do not exchange with cosolvent should be maintained in crystal structures used for docking campaigns, and that hydroxy substituents should be incorporated in the ligand so as to map the structured water molecules replaced by (m)ethanol.
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Affiliation(s)
- Danzhi Huang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich (Switzerland).
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