Molecular dynamics simulation and thermodynamic integration method were used to calculate the absolute binding free energy of the protein-ligand complex. By the molecular transformation method, the interactions between protein (plus solvent) and its ligand are gradually decreased (or increased) into a non-interacting (or full interacting) state. A potential of a body restraint was used to calculate the free energy changes caused by the loss of translation and rotation freedom of the ligand molecule, that is called as the entropy effect. A mutant trypsin (D189G/G226D) and its polar ligand (benzamidine) were selected as a model to study the influence of the interactions between protein and polar ligand on the binding free energy. The calculation result of the absolute free energy for the model complex (-15.5 kJ/mol) is close to the experimental data (-10.5 kJ/mol).
WANG Cun-Xin, SONG Wei, CHEN Wei-Zu. The Absolute Free Energy Calculation of The Protein and Polar Ligand Complex[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2003,30(1):143-146
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