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CSM-lig: a web server for assessing and comparing protein-small molecule affinities.

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Pires, Douglas EV 
Ascher, David B 

Abstract

Determining the affinity of a ligand for a given protein is a crucial component of drug development and understanding their biological effects. Predicting binding affinities is a challenging and difficult task, and despite being regarded as poorly predictive, scoring functions play an important role in the analysis of molecular docking results. Here, we present CSM-Lig (http://structure.bioc.cam.ac.uk/csm_lig), a web server tailored to predict the binding affinity of a protein-small molecule complex, encompassing both protein and small-molecule complementarity in terms of shape and chemistry via graph-based structural signatures. CSM-Lig was trained and evaluated on different releases of the PDBbind databases, achieving a correlation of up to 0.86 on 10-fold cross validation and 0.80 in blind tests, performing as well as or better than other widely used methods. The web server allows users to rapidly and automatically predict binding affinities of collections of structures and assess the interactions made. We believe CSM-lig would be an invaluable tool for helping assess docking poses, the effects of multiple mutations, including insertions, deletions and alternative splicing events, in protein-small molecule affinity, unraveling important aspects that drive protein-compound recognition.

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Databases, Protein, Datasets as Topic, Internet, Ligands, Molecular Docking Simulation, Mutation, Protein Binding, Proteins, Reproducibility of Results, Small Molecule Libraries, Software, Substrate Specificity, User-Computer Interface

Journal Title

Nucleic Acids Res

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Journal ISSN

0305-1048
1362-4962

Volume Title

44

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsorship
Newton Fund RCUK-CONFAP Grant awarded by The Medical Research Council (MRC) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) [to D.E.V.P. and D.B.A.]; René Rachou Research Center (CPqRR/FIOCRUZ Minas), Brazil [to D.E.V.P.]; NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship [APP1072476 to D.B.A.]. Funding for open access charge: MRC/UK.