Toward On-The-Fly Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Docking: Development and Benchmark of a Scoring Function
Toward On-The-Fly Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Docking: Development and Benchmark of a Scoring Function
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DOI:
10.1021/ci5004152
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发表时间:
2014-11-01
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5.6
通讯作者:
Roehrig, Ute F.
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作者:
Chaskar, Prasad;Zoete, Vincent;Roehrig, Ute F.
We address the challenges of treating polarization and covalent interactions in docking by developing a hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) scoring function based on the semiempirical self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) method and the CHARMM force field. To benchmark this scoring function within the EADock DSS docking algorithm, we created a publicly available dataset of high-quality X-ray structures of zinc metalloproteins (http://www.molecular-modelling.ch/resources.php). For zinc-bound ligands (226 complexes), the QM/MM scoring yielded a substantially improved success rate compared to the classical scoring function (77.0% vs 61.5%), while, for allosteric ligands (55 complexes), the success rate remained constant (49.1%). The QM/MM scoring significantly improved the detection of correct zinc-binding geometries and improved the docking success rate by more than 20% for several important drug targets. The performance of both the classical and the QM/MM scoring functions compare favorably to the performance of AutoDock4, AutoDock4Zn, and AutoDock Vina.