Halogen Bonds in Ligand-Protein Systems : Molecular Orbital Theory for Drug Design

Halogen bonds are highly important in medicinal chemistry as halogenation of drugs, generally, improves both selectivity and efficacy toward protein active sites. However, accurate modeling of halogen bond interactions remains a challenge, since a thorough theoretical investigation of the bonding mechanism, focusing on the realistic complexity of drug-receptor systems, is lacking. Our systematic quantum-chemical study on ligand/peptide-like systems reveals that halogen bonding is driven by the same bonding interactions as hydrogen bonding. Besides the electrostatic and the dispersion interactions, our bonding analyses, based on quantitative Kohn-Sham molecular orbital theory together with energy decomposition analysis, reveal that donor-acceptor interactions and steric repulsion between the occupied orbitals of the halogenated ligand and the protein need to be considered more carefully within the drug design process.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:60

Enthalten in:

Journal of chemical information and modeling - 60(2020), 3 vom: 23. März, Seite 1317-1328

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Margiotta, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
van der Lubbe, Stephanie C C [VerfasserIn]
de Azevedo Santos, Lucas [VerfasserIn]
Paragi, Gabor [VerfasserIn]
Moro, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Bickelhaupt, F Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Fonseca Guerra, Célia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Halogens
Journal Article
Ligands
Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 17.06.2021

Date Revised 17.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00946

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM30599669X