Extracting binding energies and binding modes from biomolecular simulations of fragment binding to endothiapepsin

Author:

Schmitz Birte1,Frieg Benedikt12,Homeyer Nadine1,Jessen Gisela1,Gohlke Holger123ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Germany

2. John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI‐7: Structural Biochemistry) Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Germany

3. Institute of Bio‐ and Geosciences (IBG‐4: Bioinformatics) Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Germany

Abstract

AbstractFragment‐based drug discovery (FBDD) aims to discover a set of small binding fragments that may be subsequently linked together. Therefore, in‐depth knowledge of the individual fragments' structural and energetic binding properties is essential. In addition to experimental techniques, the direct simulation of fragment binding by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations became popular to characterize fragment binding. However, former studies showed that long simulation times and high computational demands per fragment are needed, which limits applicability in FBDD. Here, we performed short, unbiased MD simulations of direct fragment binding to endothiapepsin, a well‐characterized model system of pepsin‐like aspartic proteases. To evaluate the strengths and limitations of short MD simulations for the structural and energetic characterization of fragment binding, we predicted the fragments' absolute free energies and binding poses based on the direct simulations of fragment binding and compared the predictions to experimental data. The predicted absolute free energies are in fair agreement with the experiment. Combining the MD data with binding mode predictions from molecular docking approaches helped to correctly identify the most promising fragments for further chemical optimization. Importantly, all computations and predictions were done within 5 days, suggesting that MD simulations may become a viable tool in FBDD projects.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

Wiley

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