Atomic charges and desolvation are calculated using AMSOL (26, 27)using a protocol we have reported previously. For flexibase files used by DOCK 3.6, (23, 24) conformations are calculated using OpenEye’s Omega library (25) with the following settings: Warts(True), FromCT(False), FixMaxMatch(1), EnumNitrogen(false), EnumRing(false), EnergyWindow(12.5), MaxConfGen(100000), MaxConfs(600), RMSThreshold(0.80). For the range pH of 6–8 (i.e., 7 ± 1), additional protonated and tautomeric forms are generated such that they have a relative population of at least 20% within that pH range using the arguments: “ph 7.0 -pht 1.0 -tp 0.20”. At pH of 7.05, a single best configuration is generated using the arguments: “-ph 7.05 -ms 1”. Molecules are generated in four pH ranges using Schrodinger’s Epik version 2.1209 (22) as follows.
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A trial 3D structure is first generated using Molecular Networks’ Corina program (21) to generate a single canonical conformation with the best ring puckering if applicable (arguments are -d neu, wh, rc, mc = 1, canon). (19) We generate up to four stereoisomers for stereochemically ambiguous molecules.
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