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During the course of the docking process, the ligand and the protein adjust their conformation to achieve an overall "best-fit" and this kind of conformational adjustment resulting in the overall binding is referred to as "induced-fit". [5] Molecular docking research focuses on computationally simulating the molecular recognition process.
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The goal of protein–ligand docking is to predict the position and orientation of a ligand (a small molecule) when it is bound to a protein receptor or enzyme. [1] Pharmaceutical research employs docking techniques for a variety of purposes, most notably in the virtual screening of large databases of available chemicals in order to select ...
Macromolecular docking is the computational modelling of the quaternary structure of complexes formed by two or more interacting biological macromolecules. Protein –protein complexes are the most commonly attempted targets of such modelling, followed by protein– nucleic acid complexes.
Two of the most used docking programs belong to this class: GOLD [8] and AutoDock. [9] Genetic algorithms allow the exploration of a large conformational space – which is basically spanned by the protein and ligand jointly in this case – by representing each spatial arrangement of the pair as a “gene” with a particular energy.
Docking glossary Receptor or host or lock The "receiving" molecule, most commonly a protein or other biopolymer. Ligand or guest or key The complementary partner molecule which binds to the receptor. Ligands are most often small molecules but could also be another biopolymer. Docking Computational simulation of a candidate ligand binding to a ...