Effective Use of Empirical Data for Virtual Screening against APJR GPCR Receptor
Effective Use of Empirical Data for Virtual Screening against APJR GPCR Receptor
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder incompatible with normal daily activity, affecting one in nine people. One of its potential targets is the apelin receptor (APJR), a G-protein coupled receptor, which presents considerably high expression levels in the central nervous system. In silico studies of APJR drug-like molecule binding are in small numbers while high throughput screenings (HTS) are already sufficiently many to devise efficient drug design strategies. This presents itself as an opportunity to optimize different steps in future large scale virtual screening endeavours. Here, we ran a first stage docking simulation against a library of 95 known binders and 3829 generated decoys in an effort to improve the rescoring stage. We then analyzed receptor binding site structure and ligands binding poses to describe their interactions. As a result, we devised a simple and straightforward virtual screening Stage II filtering score based on search space extension followed by a geometric estimation of the ligand—binding site fitness. Having this score, we used an ensemble of receptors generated by Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulation and reported the results. The improvements shown herein prove that our ensemble docking protocol is suited for APJR and can be easily extrapolated to other GPCRs.
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Apelin Receptors, Binding Sites, Organic chemistry, structural bioinformatics, molecular docking, Ligands, Article, apelin receptor, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Molecular Docking Simulation, QD241-441, Biomimetics, Drug Design, Alzheimer, Apelin, Humans, Peptides, Protein Binding
Apelin Receptors, Binding Sites, Organic chemistry, structural bioinformatics, molecular docking, Ligands, Article, apelin receptor, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Molecular Docking Simulation, QD241-441, Biomimetics, Drug Design, Alzheimer, Apelin, Humans, Peptides, Protein Binding
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