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@ARTICLE{Manelfi:890453,
author = {Manelfi, Candida and Gossen, Jonas and Gervasoni, Silvia
and Talarico, Carmine and Albani, Simone and Philipp,
Benjamin Joseph and Musiani, Francesco and Vistoli, Giulio
and Rossetti, Giulia and Beccari, Andrea Rosario and
Pedretti, Alessandro},
title = {{C}ombining {D}ifferent {D}ocking {E}ngines and {C}onsensus
{S}trategies to {D}esign and {V}alidate {O}ptimized
{V}irtual {S}creening {P}rotocols for the {SARS}-{C}o{V}-2
3{CL} {P}rotease},
journal = {Molecules},
volume = {26},
number = {4},
issn = {1420-3049},
address = {Basel},
publisher = {MDPI70206},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00969},
pages = {797 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {The 3CL-Protease appears to be a very promising medicinal
target to develop anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents. The availability
of resolved structures allows structure-based computational
approaches to be carried out even though the lack of known
inhibitors prevents a proper validation of the performed
simulations. The innovative idea of the study is to exploit
known inhibitors of SARS-CoV 3CL-Pro as a training set to
perform and validate multiple virtual screening campaigns.
Docking simulations using four different programs (Fred,
Glide, LiGen, and PLANTS) were performed investigating the
role of both multiple binding modes (by binding space) and
multiple isomers/states (by developing the corresponding
isomeric space). The computed docking scores were used to
develop consensus models, which allow an in-depth comparison
of the resulting performances. On average, the reached
performances revealed the different sensitivity to isomeric
differences and multiple binding modes between the four
docking engines. In detail, Glide and LiGen are the tools
that best benefit from isomeric and binding space,
respectively, while Fred is the most insensitive program.
The obtained results emphasize the fruitful role of
combining various docking tools to optimize the predictive
performances. Taken together, the performed simulations
allowed the rational development of highly performing
virtual screening workflows, which could be further
optimized by considering different 3CL-Pro structures and,
more importantly, by including true SARS-CoV-2 3CL-Pro
inhibitors (as learning set) when available.},
cin = {INM-9 / JSC / IAS-5},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-9-20140121 / I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 /
I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-5-20120330},
pnm = {525 - Decoding Brain Organization and Dysfunction
(POF4-525) / 5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data
Life Cycle Labs (SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-525 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {33557115},
UT = {WOS:000624153100001},
doi = {10.3390/molecules26040797},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890453},
}