Nanosecond molecular dynamics of HIV protease-inhibitor complexes: Insight into the differential binding potency of diastereoisomers.

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Authors

LEPŠÍK Martin KŘÍŽ Zdeněk HAVLAS Zdeněk

Year of publication 2003
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Materials in Structure Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Technology
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Faculty of Science

Citation
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Field Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
Keywords HIV Protease; molecular dynamics
Description The inhibitory potency of four nanomolar diastereomeric inhibitors of HIV-1 protease [1] was studied by molecular dynamics simulations and MM-GBSA/PBSA analysis. As a starting point we used the crystal structures of protease-inhibitor complexes [2, 3]. Having added hydrogens, we surrounded the complexes with a box of explicit water molecules and added counterions to neutralize the box. Using AMBER 7 program package [4], we minimized, heated and equilibrated the system after which we ran 2-nanosecond-long production dynamics. Periodic boundary conditions were used and long-range electrostatics was treated by particle mesh Ewald (PME) technique. An analysis of the molecular dynamical trajectories was performed and their quality assessed. The protease-inhibitor binding energies were calculated with MM-GBSA/PBSA approach. The effect of the length of the simulation, method to calculate solvation energy, and other factors upon the results was determined.
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