title: Quantum Mechanics Approaches to Drug Research in the Era of Structural Chemogenomics.
abstract: The rapid growth of the available crystallographic information about proteins and binding pockets creates remarkable opportunities for enriching the drug research pipelines with computational prediction of novel protein-ligand interactions. Whileab initioquantum mechanical approaches are known to provide unprecedented accuracy in structure-based binding energy calculations, they are limited to only small systems of dozens of atoms. In the structural chemogenomics era, it is critical that new approaches are developed that enable application of QM methodologies to non-covalent interactions in systems as large as protein-ligand complexes and conformational ensembles. This perspective highlights recent advances towards bridging the gap between high accuracy and high volume computations in drug research.
authors.affiliation: Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92093 ; Division of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics, Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, Russia, 188300.
authors.forename: Andrey V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Ilatovskiy
authors.affiliation: Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92093.
authors.forename: Ruben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abagyan
authors.affiliation: Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92093.
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kufareva
keywords: Pocketome; Protein-ligand complex; binding energy prediction; binding pocket ensemble; virtual ligand screening