Protein/ligand binding free energies calculated with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics
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- DOI: 10.1021/jp044185y
Protein/ligand binding free energies calculated with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics
Abstract
The calculation of binding affinities for flexible ligands has hitherto required the availability of reliable molecular mechanics parameters for the ligands, a restriction that can in principle be lifted by using a mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) representation in which the ligand is treated quantum mechanically. The feasibility of this approach is evaluated here, combining QM/MM with the Poisson-Boltzmann/surface area model of continuum solvation and testing the method on a set of 47 benzamidine derivatives binding to trypsin. The experimental range of the absolute binding energy (DeltaG = -3.9 to -7.6 kcal/mol) is reproduced well, with a root-mean-square (RMS) error of 1.2 kcal/mol. When QM/MM is applied without reoptimization to the very different ligands of FK506 binding protein the RMS error is only 0.7 kcal/mol. The results show that QM/MM is a promising new avenue for automated docking and scoring of flexible ligands. Suggestions are made for further improvements in accuracy.
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