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David J Diller¹, Christine Humblet, Xiaohua Zhang

¹Pfizer Inc, 865 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey 08543, USA. djrdiller@gmail.com

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Structural biology
Biophysics

Background:

Alanine scanning is crucial for dissecting protein-protein interactions.
Linear scaling semiempirical quantum mechanical (QM) methods are efficient for large biomolecules.
QM methods have been successful in protein-ligand binding studies.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the utility of QM methods for computational alanine scanning.
To determine if QM methods developed for protein-ligand scoring can be applied to protein-protein interfaces.

Main Methods:

Assembled a dataset of 15 protein-protein complexes with experimental alanine scanning data.
Performed QM calculations on 400 single point alanine mutations.
Compared QM results with buried accessible surface area and potential of mean force methods.

Main Results:

QM-based methods, with one adjusted parameter, outperformed buried accessible surface area and potential of mean force.
The QM approach showed favorable comparison to existing empirical methods.
Analysis of outliers identified challenges in applying QM to alanine scanning.

Conclusions:

Linear scaling QM methods are effective for computational alanine scanning.
These QM methods offer a promising alternative to traditional approaches for studying protein-protein interfaces.
Further investigation is needed to address challenges and refine outlier predictions.