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A highly accurate metadynamics-based Dissociation Free Energy method to calculate protein–protein and protein–ligand binding potencies

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Wang, Jing, Ishchenko, Alexey, Zhang, Wei, Razavi, Asghar, Langley, David·2022·Scientific Reports

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Although seeking to develop a general and accurate binding free energy calculation method for protein–protein and protein–ligand interactions has been a continuous effort for decades, only limited successes have been obtained so far. Here, we report the development of a metadynamics-based procedure that calculates Dissociation Free Energy (DFE) and its application to 19 non-congeneric protein–protein complexes and hundreds of protein–ligand complexes covering eight targets. We achieved very high correlations in comparison to experimental binding free energies for these diverse sets of systems, demonstrating the generality and accuracy of the method. Since structures of most proteins are available owing to the recent success of prediction by artificial intelligence, a general free energy method such as DFE, combined with other methods, can make structure-based drug design a widely viable and reliable solution to develop both traditional small molecule drugs and biologic drugs as well as PROTACS.

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Authors
Wang, J., Ishchenko, A., Zhang, W., Razavi, A., & Langley, D.
Affiliations
Arvinas (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Wang, Jing
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2022-02-07
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
2024-2024
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4210860040
Cited by
55
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 10
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6.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
Keywords
dissociation free energy, metadynamics, protein-protein binding, protein-ligand binding, binding free energy calculation, structure-based drug design, PROTACs
MeSH terms
Artificial Intelligence, Energy Transfer, Ligands, Protein Binding, Proteins, Thermodynamics, Drug Design, Multiprotein Complexes, Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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