Umbrella Sampling-Based Method to Compute Ligand-Binding Affinity
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- 10 December 2021
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 2385, 313-323
Abstract
Many proteins have a solvent-exposed binding cleft, which permits their inhibitors to bind and unbind without significant protein conformation transforms. The binding/unbinding pathways of these protein–inhibitor complexes can be rather straightforwardly sampled by using umbrella sampling (US) simulation methods. During a US simulation, the Cα atoms of the protein are restrained via a harmonic force. The potential of mean force (PMF) along the binding pathway can be estimated by using the weighted histogram analysis method (WHAM). The binding affinity is then computed as the difference in PMF between the binding and unbinding states.Keywords
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