eprintid: 10093312 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/09/33/12 datestamp: 2020-03-13 12:38:15 lastmod: 2021-12-13 23:32:14 status_changed: 2020-03-13 12:38:15 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Heifetz, A creators_name: James, T creators_name: Southey, M creators_name: Morao, I creators_name: Fedorov, DG creators_name: Bodkin, MJ creators_name: Townsend-Nicholson, A title: Analyzing GPCR-Ligand Interactions with the Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) Method ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D09 divisions: G03 keywords: Chemical interactions, Computational, Computer-aided drug design (CADD), Drugs, Fragment molecular orbital method (FMO), G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), General atomic and molecular electronic structure system (GAMESS), Modelling, Pair interaction energy (PIE), Pair interaction energy decomposition analysis (PIEDA), Quantum mechanics (QM), Receptor, Structure-based drug design (SBDD) note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have enormous physiological and biomedical importance, and therefore it is not surprising that they are the targets of many prescribed drugs. Further progress in GPCR drug discovery is highly dependent on the availability of protein structural information. However, the ability of X-ray crystallography to guide the drug discovery process for GPCR targets is limited by the availability of accurate tools to explore receptor-ligand interactions. Visual inspection and molecular mechanics approaches cannot explain the full complexity of molecular interactions. Quantum mechanics (QM) approaches are often too computationally expensive to be of practical use in time-sensitive situations, but the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method offers an excellent solution that combines accuracy, speed, and the ability to reveal key interactions that would otherwise be hard to detect. Integration of GPCR crystallography or homology modelling with FMO reveals atomistic details of the individual contributions of each residue and water molecule toward ligand binding, including an analysis of their chemical nature. Such information is essential for an efficient structure-based drug design (SBDD) process. In this chapter, we describe how to use FMO in the characterization of GPCR-ligand interactions. date: 2020-02-04 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0282-9_11 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1749280 doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0282-9_11 lyricists_name: Townsend-Nicholson, Andrea lyricists_id: ATOWN70 actors_name: Stacey, Thomas actors_id: TSSTA20 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Methods in Molecular Biology volume: 2114 pagerange: 163-175 event_location: United States citation: Heifetz, A; James, T; Southey, M; Morao, I; Fedorov, DG; Bodkin, MJ; Townsend-Nicholson, A; (2020) Analyzing GPCR-Ligand Interactions with the Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) Method. Methods in Molecular Biology , 2114 pp. 163-175. 10.1007/978-1-0716-0282-9_11 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0282-9_11>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093312/3/Townsend-Nicholson_Chapter11-GPCR-ligand-interactions-with-FMO-v4.0.pdf