Classification of chemical compounds by protein-compound docking for use in designing a focused library

J Med Chem. 2006 Jan 26;49(2):523-33. doi: 10.1021/jm050480a.

Abstract

We developed a new method for the classification of chemical compounds and protein pockets and applied it to a random screening experiment for macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF). The principal component analysis (PCA) method was applied to the protein-compound interaction matrix, which was given by thorough docking calculations between a set of many protein pockets and chemical compounds. Each compound and protein pocket was depicted as a point in the PCA spaces of compounds and proteins, respectively. This method was applied to distinguish active compounds from negative compounds of MIF. A random screening experiment for MIF was performed, and our method revealed that the active compounds were localized in the PCA space of compounds, while the negative compounds showed a wide distribution. Furthermore, protein pockets, which bind similar compounds, were classified and were found to form a cluster in the PCA space.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors / chemistry
  • Models, Molecular
  • Organic Chemicals / chemistry
  • Organic Chemicals / classification*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / classification*
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship*

Substances

  • Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Proteins