Issue 7, 2015

Target specific proteochemometric model development for BACE1 – protein flexibility and structural water are critical in virtual screening

Abstract

BACE1 is an attractive target in Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment. A rational drug design effort for the inhibition of BACE1 is actively pursued by researchers in both academic and pharmaceutical industries. This continued effort led to the steady accumulation of BACE1 crystal structures, co-complexed with different classes of inhibitors. This wealth of information is used in this study to develop target specific proteochemometric models and these models are exploited for predicting the prospective BACE1 inhibitors. The models developed in this study have performed excellently in predicting the computationally generated poses, separately obtained from single and ensemble docking approaches. The simple protein–ligand contact (SPLC) model outperforms other sophisticated high end models, in virtual screening performance, developed during this study. In an attempt to account for BACE1 protein active site flexibility information in predictive models, we included the change in the area of solvent accessible surface and the change in the volume of solvent accessible surface in our models. The ensemble and single receptor docking results obtained from this study indicate that the structural water mediated interactions improve the virtual screening results. Also, these waters are essential for recapitulating bioactive conformation during docking study. The proteochemometric models developed in this study can be used for the prediction of BACE1 inhibitors, during the early stage of AD drug discovery.

Graphical abstract: Target specific proteochemometric model development for BACE1 – protein flexibility and structural water are critical in virtual screening

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Jan 2015
Accepted
17 Apr 2015
First published
17 Apr 2015

Mol. BioSyst., 2015,11, 1955-1972

Target specific proteochemometric model development for BACE1 – protein flexibility and structural water are critical in virtual screening

P. Manoharan, K. Chennoju and N. Ghoshal, Mol. BioSyst., 2015, 11, 1955 DOI: 10.1039/C5MB00088B

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