화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.120, No.29, 7098-7107, 2016
Thermodynamically-Weighted Conformational Ensemble of Cyclic RGD Peptidomimetics from NOE Data
In the case of flexible molecules, the standard approach of transforming NOE intensities into spatial restraints and of building conformational models minimizing these restraints greatly neglects the richness of molecular conformations. Making use of NOE intensities measured in triplicate and of an iterative molecular-dynamics scheme, we optimized a force field to generate a set of conformations whose ensemble is compatible with the experimental data, and is weighted according to the Boltzmann distribution. This scheme is applied to two cyclic peptidomimetic ligands of integrins. Their difference in binding affinity is recapitulated in terms of their difference in conformational fluctuations.