Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Reliability in docking of ligand molecules to proteins or other targets is an important challenge for molecular modeling. Applications of the docking technique include not only prediction of the binding mode of novel drugs, but also other problems like the study of protein-protein interactions. Here we present a study on the reliability of the results obtained with the popular AutoDock program. We have performed systematical studies to test the ability of AutoDock to reproduce eight different protein/ligand complexes for which the structure was known, without prior knowledge of the binding site. More specifically, we look at factors influencing the accuracy of the final structure, such as the number of torsional degrees of freedom in the ligand. We conclude that the Autodock program package is able to select the correct complexes based on the energy without prior knowledge of the binding site. We named this application blind docking, as the docking algorithm is not able to "see" the binding site but can still find it. The success of blind docking represents an important finding in the era of structural genomics.
Source: Protein Science
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0202302
Authors: Csaba Hetényi, David van der Spoel
Institutions: University of Szeged, Uppsala University
Language: English
Subfield: Drug Discovery
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2136513242