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@ARTICLE{Schmidt:862493,
author = {Schmidt, Denis and Boehm, Markus and McClendon, Christopher
L. and Torella, Rubben and Gohlke, Holger},
title = {{C}osolvent-enhanced {S}ampling and {U}nbiased
{I}dentification of {C}ryptic {P}ockets {S}uitable for
{S}tructure-based {D}rug {D}esign},
journal = {Journal of chemical theory and computation},
volume = {15},
number = {5},
issn = {1549-9626},
address = {Washington, DC},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-02799},
pages = {3331–3343},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Modulating protein activity with small molecules binding to
cryptic pockets offers great opportunities to overcome
hurdles in drug design. Cryptic sites are atypical binding
sites in proteins that are closed in the absence of a
stabilizing ligand and are thus inherently difficult to
identify. Many studies have proposed methods to predict
cryptic sites. However, a general approach to prospectively
sample open conformations of these sites and to identify
cryptic pockets in an unbiased manner suitable for
structure-based drug design remains elusive. Here, we
describe an all-atom, explicit cosolvent, molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations-based workflow to sample the open states of
cryptic sites and identify opened pockets, in a manner that
does not require a priori knowledge about these sites.
Furthermore, the workflow relies on a target-independent
parameterization that only distinguishes between binding
pockets for peptides or small-molecules. We validated our
approach on a diverse test set of seven proteins with
crystallographically determined cryptic sites. The known
cryptic sites were found among the three highest-ranked
predicted cryptic sites, and an open site conformation was
sampled and selected for most of the systems.
Crystallographic ligand poses were well reproduced by
docking into these identified open conformations for five of
the systems. When the fully open state could not be
reproduced, we were still able to predict the location of
the cryptic site, or identify other cryptic sites that could
be retrospectively validated with knowledge of the protein
target. These characteristics render our approach valuable
for investigating novel protein targets without any prior
information.},
cin = {JSC / NIC / ICS-6},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)NIC-20090406 /
I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-6-20110106},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511) / Forschergruppe Gohlke $(hkf7_20170501)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / $G:(DE-Juel1)hkf7_20170501$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30998331},
UT = {WOS:000468242900048},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01295},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/862493},
}