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Incorporating Target Protein Structure Flexibility and Dynamics in Computational Drug Discovery Using Ensemble-Based Docking Analysis
Published on: June 20, 2025
Protein-small molecule docking with receptor flexibility in iMOLSDOCK
1Centre of Advanced Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, 600025, India.
Abstract:
We have earlier reported the iMOLSDOCK technique to perform 'induced-fit' peptide-protein docking. iMOLSDOCK uses the mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLSs) technique to sample the conformation and the docking pose of the small molecule ligand and also the flexible residues of the receptor protein, and arrive at the optimum pose and conformation. In this paper we report the extension carried out in iMOLSDOCK to dock nonpeptide small molecule ligands to receptor proteins. We have benchmarked and validated iMOLSDOCK with a dataset of 34 protein-ligand complexes as well as with Astex Diverse dataset, with nonpeptide small molecules as ligands. We have also compared iMOLSDOCK with other flexible receptor docking tools GOLD v5.2.1 and AutoDock Vina. The results obtained show that the method works better than these two algorithms, though it consumes more computer time. The source code and binary of MOLS 2.0 (under a GNU Lesser General Public License) are freely available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/mols2-0/files/ .
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