文摘
There has recently been considerable interest in using NMR spectroscopy to identify ligand bindingsites of macromolecules. In particular, a modular approach has been put forward by Fesik et al. (Shuker,S. B.; Hajduk, P. J.; Meadows, R. P.; Fesik, S. W. Science 1996, 274, 1531-1534) in which small ligandsthat bind to a particular target are identified in a first round of screening and subsequently linked togetherto form ligands of higher affinity. Similar strategies have also been proposed for in silico drug design,where the binding sites of small chemical groups are identified, and complete ligands are subsequentlyassembled from different groups that have favorable interactions with the macromolecular target. In thispaper, we compare experimental and computational results on a selected target (FKBP12). The bindingsites of three small ligands ((2S)1-acetylprolinemethylester, 1-formylpiperidine, 1-piperidinecarboxamide)in FKBP12 were identified independently by NMR and by computational methods. The subsequentcomparison of the experimental and computational data showed that the computational method identifiedand ranked favorably ligand positions that satisfy the experimental NOE constraints.