Water molecules at protein-drug interfaces: computational prediction and analysis methods
Water molecules at protein-drug interfaces: computational prediction and analysis methods
The fundamental importance of water molecules at drug-protein interfaces is now widely recognised and a significant feature in structure-based drug design. Experimental methods for analysing the role of water in drug binding have many challenges, including the accurate location of bound water molecules in crystal structures, and problems in resolving specific water contributions to binding thermodynamics. Computational analyses of binding site water molecules provide an alternative, and in principle complete, structural and thermodynamic picture, and their use is now commonplace in the pharmaceutical industry. In this review, we describe the computational methodologies that are available and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, we provide a critical analysis of the experimental data used to validate the methods, regarding the type and quality of experimental structural data. We also discuss some of the fundamental difficulties of each method and suggest directions for future study.
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Samways, Marley, Luke
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Taylor, Richard D.
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Bruce Macdonald, Hannah
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Essex, Jonathan W.
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21 August 2021
Samways, Marley, Luke
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Taylor, Richard D.
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Bruce Macdonald, Hannah
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Essex, Jonathan W.
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Samways, Marley, Luke, Taylor, Richard D., Bruce Macdonald, Hannah and Essex, Jonathan W.
(2021)
Water molecules at protein-drug interfaces: computational prediction and analysis methods.
Chemical Society Reviews, 50 (16), .
(doi:10.1039/D0CS00151A).
Abstract
The fundamental importance of water molecules at drug-protein interfaces is now widely recognised and a significant feature in structure-based drug design. Experimental methods for analysing the role of water in drug binding have many challenges, including the accurate location of bound water molecules in crystal structures, and problems in resolving specific water contributions to binding thermodynamics. Computational analyses of binding site water molecules provide an alternative, and in principle complete, structural and thermodynamic picture, and their use is now commonplace in the pharmaceutical industry. In this review, we describe the computational methodologies that are available and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, we provide a critical analysis of the experimental data used to validate the methods, regarding the type and quality of experimental structural data. We also discuss some of the fundamental difficulties of each method and suggest directions for future study.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 June 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 June 2021
Published date: 21 August 2021
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The authors thank the EPSRC for funding. MLS is supported by the EPSRC-funded CDT in Next Generation Computational Modelling, under grant EP/L015382/1. HEBM was supported by the EPSRC-funded CDT in Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences, under grant EP/L015722/1 during this work. The authors thank Dr Philip Williamson (Biological Sciences, University of Southampton) for helpful discussions regarding the use of NMR in this field.
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RDT is an employee of UCB, and research conducted by MLS, HEBM and JWE has been partly funded by UCB. HEBM is an employee of MSD.
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