多态方法可有效解决互变异构和质子化在非热力学自由能计算中的问题。
Multistate Method to Efficiently Account for Tautomerism and Protonation in Alchemical Free-Energy Calculations.
机构信息
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
出版信息
J Chem Theory Comput. 2024 May 28;20(10):4350-4362. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00370. Epub 2024 May 14.
The majority of drug-like molecules contain at least one ionizable group, and many common drug scaffolds are subject to tautomeric equilibria. Thus, these compounds are found in a mixture of protonation and/or tautomeric states at physiological pH. Intrinsically, standard classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations cannot describe such equilibria between states, which negatively impacts the prediction of key molecular properties . Following the formalism described by de Oliveira and co-workers ( , , 424-435) to consider the influence of all states on the binding process based on alchemical free-energy calculations, we demonstrate in this work that the multistate method replica-exchange enveloping distribution sampling (RE-EDS) is well suited to describe molecules with multiple protonation and/or tautomeric states in a single simulation. We apply our methodology to a series of eight inhibitors of factor Xa with two protonation states and a series of eight inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) with two tautomeric states. In particular, we show that given a sufficient phase-space overlap between the states, RE-EDS is computationally more efficient than standard pairwise free-energy methods.
大多数类药性分子至少含有一个可离解基团,许多常见的药物支架都受到互变异构平衡的影响。因此,这些化合物在生理 pH 值下以质子化和/或互变异构态的混合物形式存在。从本质上讲,标准的经典分子动力学 (MD) 模拟无法描述状态之间的这种平衡,这对关键分子性质的预测产生了负面影响。根据 de Oliveira 及其同事(,, 424-435)描述的形式主义,基于阿尔凯化自由能计算来考虑所有状态对结合过程的影响,我们在这项工作中证明,多态方法复制交换包络分布采样 (RE-EDS) 非常适合在单个模拟中描述具有多个质子化和/或互变异构态的分子。我们将我们的方法应用于一系列具有两种质子化状态的因子 Xa 抑制剂和一系列具有两种互变异构状态的糖原合酶激酶 3β (GSK3β) 抑制剂。特别是,我们表明,在状态之间具有足够的相空间重叠的情况下,RE-EDS 在计算上比标准的成对自由能方法更有效。