| Literature DB >> 27480697 |
Yuan Hu1, Brad Sherborne2, Tai-Sung Lee3, David A Case3, Darrin M York4, Zhuyan Guo5.
Abstract
In drug discovery, protonation states and tautomerization are easily overlooked. Through a Merck-Rutgers collaboration, this paper re-examined the initial settings and preparations for the Thermodynamic Integration (TI) calculation in AMBER Free-Energy Workflows, demonstrating the value of careful consideration of ligand protonation and tautomer state. Finally, promising results comparing AMBER TI and Schrödinger FEP+ are shown that should encourage others to explore the value of TI in routine Structure-based Drug Design.Entities:
Keywords: Free energy calculation; Free energy perturbation; Protein–ligand binding affinity; Protonation; Tautomerization; Thermodynamic integration
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27480697 PMCID: PMC6360336 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-016-9920-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Comput Aided Mol Des ISSN: 0920-654X Impact factor: 3.686