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Zahariev F, Xu P, Westheimer BM, Webb S, Galvez Vallejo J, Tiwari A, Sundriyal V, Sosonkina M, Shen J, Schoendorff G, Schlinsog M, Sattasathuchana T, Ruedenberg K, Roskop LB, Rendell AP, Poole D, Piecuch P, Pham BQ, Mironov V, Mato J, Leonard S, Leang SS, Ivanic J, Hayes J, Harville T, Gururangan K, Guidez E, Gerasimov IS, Friedl C, Ferreras KN, Elliott G, Datta D, Cruz DDA, Carrington L, Bertoni C, Barca GMJ, Alkan M, Gordon MS. The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS): Novel Methods on Novel Architectures. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:7031-7055. [PMID: 37793073 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
Abstract
The primary focus of GAMESS over the last 5 years has been the development of new high-performance codes that are able to take effective and efficient advantage of the most advanced computer architectures, both CPU and accelerators. These efforts include employing density fitting and fragmentation methods to reduce the high scaling of well-correlated (e.g., coupled-cluster) methods as well as developing novel codes that can take optimal advantage of graphical processing units and other modern accelerators. Because accurate wave functions can be very complex, an important new functionality in GAMESS is the quasi-atomic orbital analysis, an unbiased approach to the understanding of covalent bonds embedded in the wave function. Best practices for the maintenance and distribution of GAMESS are also discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Federico Zahariev
- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- VeraChem LLC, 12850 Middlebrook Road, Suite 205, Germantown, Maryland 20874-5244, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
- Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- EP Analytics, Inc., 9909 Mira Mesa Boulevard, Suite 230, San Diego, California 92131, United States
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- Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, United States
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- Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Propellants Branch, Rocket Propulsion Division, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RQRP, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, 2131 Lindau Lane #1000, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
- School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Athens, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, South Korea
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, MS K1-83, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- EP Analytics, Inc., 9909 Mira Mesa Boulevard, Suite 230, San Diego, California 92131, United States
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- Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, South Korea
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- EP Analytics, Inc., 9909 Mira Mesa Boulevard, Suite 230, San Diego, California 92131, United States
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- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, United States
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Chen W, He H, Wang J, Wang J, Chang CEA. Uncovering water effects in protein-ligand recognition: importance in the second hydration shell and binding kinetics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:2098-2109. [PMID: 36562309 PMCID: PMC9970846 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04584b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Developing a ligand with high affinity for a specific protein target is essential for drug design, and water molecules are well known to play a key role in protein-drug recognition. However, predicting the role of particularly ordered water molecules in drug binding remains challenging. Furthermore, hydration free energy contributed from the water network, including the second shell of water molecules, is far from being well studied. In this research we focused on these aspects to accurately and efficiently evaluate water effects in protein-ligand binding affinity. We developed a new strategy using a free-energy calculation method, VM2. We successfully predicted the stable ordered water molecules in a number of protein systems: PDE 10a, HSP90, tryptophan synthase (TRPS), CDK2 and Factor Xa. In some of these, the second shell of water molecules appeared to be critical in protein-ligand binding. We also applied the strategy to largely improve binding free energy calculation using the MM/PBSA method. When applying MM/PBSA alone for two systems, CDK2 and Factor Xa, the computed binding free energy resulted in poor to moderate R2 values with experimental data. However, including water free energy correction greatly improved the free energy calculation. Furthermore, our work helped to explain how xk263 is a 1000 times faster binder to HIVp than ritonavir, a potentially useful tool for investigating binding kinetics. Our studies reveal the importance of fully considering water effects in therapeutic developments in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and for fundamental research in protein-ligand recognition.
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- Wei Chen
- School of Pharmacy, Fuzhou Medical College of NanChang University, Fuzhou, JiangXi 344000, P. R. China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Fuzhou Medical College of NanChang University, Fuzhou, JiangXi 344000, P. R. China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Fuzhou Medical College of NanChang University, Fuzhou, JiangXi 344000, P. R. China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Fuzhou Medical College of NanChang University, Fuzhou, JiangXi 344000, P. R. China.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA,Corresponding Authors Wei Chen: School of Pharmacy, Fuzhou Medical College of NanChang University, Fuzhou, JiangXi 344000, China. , Chia-en A. Chang: Department of Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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Schröder GC, O'Dell WB, Webb SP, Agarwal PK, Meilleur F. Capture of activated dioxygen intermediates at the copper-active site of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase. Chem Sci 2022; 13:13303-13320. [PMID: 36507176 PMCID: PMC9683017 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc05031e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Metalloproteins perform a diverse array of redox-related reactions facilitated by the increased chemical functionality afforded by their metallocofactors. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are a class of copper-dependent enzymes that are responsible for the breakdown of recalcitrant polysaccharides via oxidative cleavage at the glycosidic bond. The activated copper-oxygen intermediates and their mechanism of formation remains to be established. Neutron protein crystallography which permits direct visualization of protonation states was used to investigate the initial steps of oxygen activation directly following active site copper reduction in Neurospora crassa LPMO9D. Herein, we cryo-trap an activated dioxygen intermediate in a mixture of superoxo and hydroperoxo states, and we identify the conserved second coordination shell residue His157 as the proton donor. Density functional theory calculations indicate that both superoxo and hydroperoxo active site states are stable. The hydroperoxo formed is potentially an early LPMO catalytic reaction intermediate or the first step in the mechanism of hydrogen peroxide formation in the absence of substrate. We observe that the N-terminal amino group of the copper coordinating His1 remains doubly protonated directly following molecular oxygen reduction by copper. Aided by molecular dynamics and mining minima free energy calculations we establish that the conserved second-shell His161 in MtPMO3* displays conformational flexibility in solution and that this flexibility is also observed, though to a lesser extent, in His157 of NcLPMO9D. The imidazolate form of His157 observed in our structure following oxygen intermediate protonation can be attributed to abolished His157 flexibility due steric hindrance in the crystal as well as the solvent-occluded active site environment due to crystal packing. A neutron crystal structure of NcLPMO9D at low pH further supports occlusion of the active site since His157 remains singly protonated even at acidic conditions.
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- Gabriela C. Schröder
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State UniversityRaleighNC 27695USA,Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN 37831USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State UniversityRaleighNC 27695USA,Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN 37831USA
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- VeraChem LLC12850 Middlebrook Rd. Ste 205GermantownMD 20874-5244USA
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- Department of Physiological Sciences and High-Performance Computing Center, Oklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK 74078USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State UniversityRaleighNC 27695USA,Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN 37831USA
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Xu P, Sattasathuchana T, Guidez E, Webb SP, Montgomery K, Yasini H, Pedreira IFM, Gordon MS. Computation of host-guest binding free energies with a new quantum mechanics based mining minima algorithm. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:104122. [PMID: 33722015 DOI: 10.1063/5.0040759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A new method called QM-VM2 is presented that efficiently combines statistical mechanics with quantum mechanical (QM) energy potentials in order to calculate noncovalent binding free energies of host-guest systems. QM-VM2 efficiently couples the use of semi-empirical QM (SEQM) energies and geometry optimizations with an underlying molecular mechanics (MM) based conformational search, to find low SEQM energy minima, and allows for processing of these minima at higher levels of ab initio QM theory. A progressive geometry optimization scheme is introduced as a means to increase conformational sampling efficiency. The newly implemented QM-VM2 is used to compute the binding free energies of the host molecule cucurbit[7]uril and a set of 15 guest molecules. The results are presented along with comparisons to experimentally determined binding affinities. For the full set of 15 host-guest complexes, which have a range of formal charges from +1 to +3, SEQM-VM2 based binding free energies show poor correlation with experiment, whereas for the ten +1 complexes only, a significant correlation (R2 = 0.8) is achieved. SEQM-VM2 generation of conformers followed by single-point ab initio QM calculations at the dispersion corrected restricted Hartree-Fock-D3(BJ) and TPSS-D3(BJ) levels of theory, as post-processing corrections, yields a reasonable correlation with experiment for the full set of host-guest complexes (R2 = 0.6 and R2 = 0.7, respectively) and an excellent correlation for the +1 formal charge set (R2 = 1.0 and R2 = 0.9, respectively), as long as a sufficiently large basis set (triple-zeta quality) is employed. The importance of the inclusion of configurational entropy, even at the MM level, for the achievement of good correlation with experiment was demonstrated by comparing the calculated ΔE values with experiment and finding a considerably poorer correlation with experiment than for the calculated free energy ΔE - TΔS. For the complete set of host-guest systems with the range of formal charges, it was observed that the deviation of the predicted binding free energy from experiment correlates somewhat with the net charge of the systems. This observation leads to a simple empirical interpolation scheme to improve the linear regression of the full set.
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- Peng Xu
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
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- VeraChem LLC, 12850 Middlebrook Rd. Ste 205, Germantown, Maryland 20874-5244, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50014, USA
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Tang Z, Chen SH, Chang CEA. Transient States and Barriers from Molecular Simulations and the Milestoning Theory: Kinetics in Ligand-Protein Recognition and Compound Design. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:1882-1895. [PMID: 32031801 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This study presents a novel computational approach to study molecular recognition and binding kinetics for drug-like compounds dissociating from a flexible protein system. The intermediates and their free energy profile during ligand association and dissociation processes control ligand-protein binding kinetics and bring a more complete picture of ligand-protein binding. The method applied the milestoning theory to extract kinetics and thermodynamics information from running short classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for frames from a given dissociation path. High-dimensional ligand-protein motions (3N-6 degrees of freedom) during ligand dissociation were reduced by use of principal component modes for assigning more than 100 milestones, and classical MD runs were allowed to travel multiple milestones to efficiently obtain ensemble distribution of initial structures for MD simulations and estimate the transition time and rate during ligand traveling between milestones. We used five pyrazolourea ligands and cyclin-dependent kinase 8 with cyclin C (CDK8/CycC) as our model system as well as metadynamics and a pathway search method to sample dissociation pathways. With our strategy, we constructed the free energy profile for highly mobile biomolecular systems. The computed binding free energy and residence time correctly ranked the pyrazolourea ligand series, in agreement with experimental data. Guided by a barrier of a ligand passing an αC helix and activation loop, we introduced one hydroxyl group to parent compounds to design our ligands with increased residence time and validated our prediction by experiments. This work provides a novel and robust approach to investigate dissociation kinetics of large and flexible systems for understanding unbinding mechanisms and designing new small-molecule drugs with desired binding kinetics.
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- Zhiye Tang
- Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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