Large-scale application of high-throughput molecular mechanics with Poisson-Boltzmann surface area for routine physics-based scoring of protein-ligand complexes

J Med Chem. 2009 May 28;52(10):3159-65. doi: 10.1021/jm801444x.

Abstract

We apply a high-throughput formulation of the molecular mechanics with Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (htMM-PBSA) to estimate relative binding potencies on a set of 308 small-molecule ligands in complex with the proteins urokinase, PTP-1B, and Chk-1. We observe statistically significant correlation to experimentally measured potencies and report correlation coefficients for the three proteins in the range 0.72-0.83. The htMM-PBSA calculations illustrate the feasibility of procedural automation of physics-based scoring calculations to produce rank-ordered binding-potency estimates for protein-ligand complexes, with sufficient throughput for realization of practical implementation into scientist workflows in an industrial drug discovery research setting.

MeSH terms

  • Checkpoint Kinase 1
  • Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / methods
  • Drug Discovery / methods*
  • Humans
  • Ligands
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Protein Binding*
  • Protein Kinases / chemistry
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1 / chemistry
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship*
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / chemistry

Substances

  • Ligands
  • Proteins
  • Protein Kinases
  • Checkpoint Kinase 1
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator