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M L Lamb1, J Tirado-Rives, W L Jorgensen
1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA.
Abstract:
A series of non-immunosuppressive inhibitors of FK506 binding protein (FKBP12) are investigated using Monte Carlo statistical mechanics simulations. These small molecules may serve as scaffolds for chemical inducers of protein dimerization, and have recently been found to have FKBP12-dependent neurotrophic activity. A linear response model was developed for estimation of absolute binding free energies based on changes in electrostatic and van der Waals energies and solvent-accessible surface areas, which are accumulated during simulations of bound and unbound ligands. With average errors of 0.5 kcal/mol, this method provides a relatively rapid way to screen the binding of ligands while retaining the structural information content of more rigorous free energy calculations.
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