Proteins computational models

How can Equation (11.79) be solved Before computers were available only simple ihapes could be considered. For example, proteins were modelled as spheres or ellipses Tanford-Kirkwood theory) DNA as a uniformly charged cylinder and membranes as planes (Gouy-Chapman theory). With computers, numerical approaches can be used to solve the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. A variety of numerical methods can be employed, including finite element and boundary element methods, but we will restrict our discussion to the finite difference method first introduced for proteins by Warwicker and Watson [Warwicker and Watson 1982]. Several groups have implemented this method here we concentrate on the work of Honig s group, whose DelPhi program has been widely used. 

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If structural information of the protein target is available, e.g., a crystal structure, in silico screening of huge virtual compound libraries can be conducted by the use of docking simulations. Based on identified primary hits, structural variations of the ligand can be evaluated by computational modeling of the ligand-protein complex. 

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A topic of actuality is the study of receptor proteins and enzymes for which data bases with crystallographic information are now made available. Computer modelling of the active sites of receptors and enzymes are important tools in rational drug design. Principal components and cluster analysis can be applied to the primary... 

The choice of method used is often facilitated or constrained by the information available. In the absence of structural information on target, if one or more active small molecules are known, LBVS or PHBVS are feasible. If no active compounds are known, but an experimental or computational model of the protein structure is available, SBVS can be considered. If both active compounds and target structure are available, one or more appropriate methods can be applied, or multiple methods combined. 

Fig. 4 HLM Clint, free vs clogD. HLM Clint, app corrected for microsomal protein binding using a computational model for microsomal binding. Open squares and filled triangles represent the same chemical series as in Fig. 3 (series A and B, respectively)...

Figure 2-3. Protonated Schiff-base of retinal (PSBR) and computational models used in ONIOM QM QM calculations (left). Electrostatic effects of the surrounding protein on excitation energies in bacteriorhodopsin evaluated using TD-B3LYP Amber right). (Adapted from Vreven and Morokuma [37] (Copyright American Institute of Physics) and Vreven et al. [38], Reprinted with permission.)...

Figure 2-11. ONIOM protein model (left) with QM atoms shown as spheres and MM atoms as sticks (substrate MCA atoms are shown as tubes). The graph to the right shows potential energy profiles obtained by relaxed scans along the Co—C5 bond in MCM for different computational models (see text for details) (Adapted from Kwiecien et al. [29]. Reprinted with permission. Copyright 2006 American Chemical Society.)...

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This example is one where the accurate three-dimensional structure of the protein is unknown under these circumstances, it is necessary to create a computer model. The development of inhibitors that are designed to overcome the effects of this mutation could not be based on the accurate structure of a ligand-binding site here, ligand-based design would be appropriate (see Sect. 7.9). 

For example, with the crystal structure of the aspartyl protease from human immundeficiency virus (HIV-1) in 1989 came the opportunity to design molecules to block this important enzyme that acts as a molecular scissors. HIV is the virus responsible for AIDS. Essential to viral replication, the HIV protease cuts long strands composed of many proteins into the functional proteins found in mature virus particles. This proteolysis occurs at the very end of the HIV replication cycle (Figure 7-1). The three-dimensional structural information derived from the x-ray crystal structure, combined with computer modeling techniques, allowed chemists to design potent, selective inhibitors of the protease enzyme (Figure... 

Together, all the inferences from both computational modeling and simulation (which can reveal novel aspects of the receptor mechanisms, based on the dynamic properties of the proteins) serve as mechanistic working hypotheses for new and more focused experiments. This mode of closely considered interactions and synergy between computational developments and experimental probing of the receptor systems has become a sustained characteristic of current studies of structure-function... 

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