Abstract：
:Docking-i.e., interaction of a small molecule (ligand) with a proteic structure (receptor)-represents the ground of drug action mechanism of the vast majority of bioactive chemicals. Ligand and receptor accommodate their geometry and energy, within this interaction, in the benefit of receptor-ligand complex. In an induced fit docking, the structure of ligand is most susceptible to changes in topology and energy, comparative to the receptor. These changes can be described by manifold hypersurfaces, in terms of polynomial discriminant and Laplacian operator. Such topological surfaces were represented for each MraY (phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase) inhibitor, studied before and after docking with MraY. Binding affinities of all ligands were calculated by this procedure. For each ligand, Laplacian and polynomial discriminant were correlated with the ligand minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) retrieved from literature. It was observed that MIC is correlated with Laplacian and polynomial discriminant.
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Int J Mol Scijournal_title
International journal of molecular sciencesauthors
Lungu CN,Diudea MV,Putz MVdoi
10.3390/ijms18071377subject
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2017-06-27 00:00:00issue
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1422-0067pii
ijms18071377journal_volume
18pub_type
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