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M-score: a knowledge-based potential scoring function accounting for protein atom mobility.

Chao-Yie Yang1, Renxiao Wang, Shaomeng Wang

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0934, USA.

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
|September 29, 2006
PubMed
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A new scoring function, M-Score, was developed using protein-ligand structures. It models atom mobility for improved accuracy in predicting binding affinities.

Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Structural biology
  • Drug discovery

Background:

  • Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for drug discovery.
  • Existing scoring functions often treat protein atoms as static, neglecting their inherent mobility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate M-Score, a novel knowledge-based potential scoring function that incorporates protein atom mobility.
  • To assess M-Score's performance in correlating with experimental binding affinities across diverse protein families.

Main Methods:

  • Developed M-Score using 2331 high-resolution protein-ligand crystal structures.
  • Represented protein atom positions using Gaussian distributions based on B-factors to model mobility.
  • Validated M-Score against 896 independent complexes with known binding affinities (pKi/pKd).

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Main Results:

  • M-Score demonstrated an overall linear correlation coefficient (r) of -0.49 with experimental binding affinities.
  • The function showed good to excellent correlations for 6 out of 17 protein families.
  • Modest to poor correlations were observed for the remaining 11 protein families.

Conclusions:

  • M-Score offers an improved approach to scoring protein-ligand interactions by considering atom mobility.
  • While promising, M-Score's performance varies across different protein families, suggesting areas for future refinement.