Extension of QM/MM Docking and its Applications to Metalloproteins

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To overcome the limitation of conventional docking methods which assume fixed charge model from force field parameters, combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method has been applied to docking as a variable charge model and shown to exhibit improvement oil the docking accuracy over fixed charge based methods. However, it has also been shown that there are a number of examples for which adoption of variable-charge model fails to reproduce the native binding modes. In particular, for metalloproteins, previously implemented method of QM/MM docking failed most often. This class of proteins has highly polarized binding sites at which high-coordinate-numbered metal ions reside. We extend the QM/MM docking method so that protein atoms surrounding the binding site along with metal ions are included as quantum region, as opposed to only ligand atoms. This extension facilitates the required scaling of partial charges oil metal ions leading to prediction of correct binding modes in metalloproteins. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 30: 2609-2616, 2009

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