Predicting the Impact of Missense Mutations on Protein–Protein Binding Affinity
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The crucial prerequisite for proper biological function is the protein’s ability to establish highly selective interactions with macromolecular partners. A missense mutation that alters the protein binding affinity may cause significant perturbations or complete abolishment of the function, potentially leading to diseases. The availability of computational methods to evaluate the impact of mutations on protein–protein binding is critical for a wide range of biomedical applications. Here, we report an efficient computational approach for predicting the effect of single and multiple missense mutations on protein–protein binding affinity. It is based on a well-tested simulation protocol for structure minimization, modified MM-PBSA and statistical scoring energy functions with parameters optimized on experimental sets of several thousands of mutations. Our simulation protocol yields very good agreement between predicted and experimental values with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.69 and 0.63 and root-mean-square errors of 1.20 and 1.90 kcal mol–1 for single and multiple mutations, respectively. Compared with other available methods, our approach achieves high speed and prediction accuracy and can be applied to large datasets generated by modern genomics initiatives. In addition, we report a crucial role of water model and the polar solvation energy in estimating the changes in binding affinity. Our analysis also reveals that prediction accuracy and effect of mutations on binding strongly depends on the type of mutation and its location in a protein complex.
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Empirical energy-based methods usually take linear forms, often with only energy-based terms, and fail to exploit evolution information, which can limit their ability to capture mutation effects on binding affinity.
“They usually take a form of linear functions, often with only energy‐based terms, and fail to exploit evolution information, which can limit their ability to capture mutation effects on binding affinity.”
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- Authors
- Li, M., Petukh, M., Alexov, E., & Panchenko, A. R.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Clemson University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Panchenko, Anna R.
- Venue
- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2014-02-27
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1770-1780
- ISSN
- 1549-9618 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-9626
- PMC
- PMC3985714
- OpenAlex
- W1978287590
- Cited by
- 111
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 4.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM093937)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Keywords
- missense mutations, protein-protein binding affinity, binding affinity prediction, multiple mutations, MM-PBSA, water model, protein complexes
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