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ReFlexIn: A Flexible Receptor Protein-Ligand Docking Scheme Evaluated on HIV-1 Protease Simon Leis, Martin Zacharias* ¨ ¨ Technische Universitat Munchen, Physik-Department T38, Garching, Germany Abstract For many targets of pharmaceutical importance conformational changes of the receptor protein are relevant during the ligand binding process. A new docking approach, ReFlexIn (Receptor Flexibility by Interpolation), that combines receptor flexibility with the computationally efficient potential grid representation of receptor molecules has been evaluated on the retroviral HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1) protease system. An approximate inclusion of receptor flexibility is achieved by using interpolation between grid representations of individual receptor conformations. For the retroviral protease the method was tested on an ensemble of protease structures crystallized in the presence of different ligands and on a set of structures obtained from morphing between the unbound and a ligand-bound protease structure. Docking was performed on ligands known to bind to the protease and several non-binders. For the binders the ReFlexIn method yielded in almost all cases ligand placements in similar or closer agreement with experiment than docking to any of the ensemble members without degrading the discrimination with respect to non-binders. The improved docking performance compared to docking to rigid receptors allows for systematic virtual screening applications at very small additional computational cost. Citation: Leis S, Zacharias M (2012) ReFlexIn: A Flexible Receptor Protein-Ligand Docking Scheme Evaluated on HIV-1 Protease. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48008. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048008 Editor: Yaakov Koby Levy, Weizmann Institute of Sci