A NEW APPROACH TO ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF LOCAL LIPOPHILICITY HYDROPHILICITY MAPPED ON MOLECULAR-SURFACES

被引:176
作者
HEIDEN, W [1 ]
MOECKEL, G [1 ]
BRICKMANN, J [1 ]
机构
[1] TH DARMSTADT,INST PHYS CHEM,PETERSENSTR 20,W-6100 DARMSTADT,GERMANY
关键词
HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPOPHILICITY; LIPOPHILICITY POTENTIAL; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENTS;
D O I
10.1007/BF00124359
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A new method for display and analysis of lipophilic/hydrophilic properties on molecular surfaces is presented. The present approach is based on the concept of Crippen and coworkers that the overall hydrophobicity of a molecule (measured as the logarithm of the partition coefficient in an octanol/water system) can be obtained as a superposition of single atom contributions. It is also based on the concept of molecular lipophilicity potentials (MLP) first introduced by Audry and coworkers in order to establish a 3D lipophilicity potential profile in the molecular environment. Instead of using a l/r- or an exponential distance law between the atomic coordinates and a point on the molecular surface, a new distance dependency is introduced for the calculation of an MLP-value on the solvent-accessible surface of the molecule. In the present formalism the Crippen values (introduced for atoms in their characteristic structural environment) are 'projected' onto the van der Waals surface of the molecule by a special weighting procedure. This guarantees that only those atomic fragments contribute significantly to the surface values that are in the close neighbourhood of the surface point. This procedure not only works for small molecules but also allows the characterization of the surfaces of biological macromolecules by means of local lipophilicity. Lipophilic and hydrophilic domains can be recognized by visual inspection of computer-generated images or by computational procedures using fuzzy logic strategies. Local hydrophobicities on different molecular surfaces can be quantitatively compared on the basis of the present approach.
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页数:12
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