Extra precision docking, free energy calculation and molecular dynamics studies on glutamic acid derivatives as MurD inhibitors

The binding modes of well known MurD inhibitors have been studied using molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The docking results of inhibitors 1-30 revealed similar mode of interaction with Escherichia coli-MurD. Further, residues Thr36, Arg37, His183, Lys319, Lys348, Thr321, Ser415 and Phe422 are found to be important for inhibitors and E. coli-MurD interactions. Our docking procedure precisely predicted crystallographic bound inhibitor 7 as evident from root mean square deviation (0.96Å). In addition inhibitors 2 and 3 have been successfully cross-docked within the MurD active site, which was pre-organized for the inhibitor 7. Induced fit best docked poses of 2, 3, 7 and 15/2Y1O complexes were subjected to 10ns MD simulations to determine the stability of the predicted binding conformations. Induce fit derived docked complexes were found to be in a state of near equilibrium as evident by the low root mean square deviations between the starting complex structure and the energy minimized final average MD complex structures. The results of molecular docking and MD simulations described in this study will be useful for the development of new MurD inhibitors with high potency.

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