On Mon, Jan
 10, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Gabriele Cruciani gabri(0)
chemiome.chm.unipg.it
 <owner-chemistry[]ccl.net> wrote:
 
 Sent to CCL by: Gabriele Cruciani [gabri##chemiome.chm.unipg.it]
 Nancy,
 the first form you reported is the most stable in water at pH 7.0.
 However, the fact that one form is more stable than another in water does not
 help you to understand which form will be more 'relevant' for docking.
 In protein the tautomeric equilibria may produce and stabilize different forms
 according to the complementary site. There are examples of tautomeric form in
 protein not stable in water, where the energy difference is more than 5
 Kcal/mol.
 
 MoKa software (www.moldiscovery.com) is fast and accurate to produce
 tautomer stable in water, but it can produce also all the (plausible) tautomeric
 forms.
 
 Then, a possibility is to dock them into your protein, to see if docking methods
 may differentiate their binding.
 
 Gabriele Cruciani
 
 
 
 
 Hi All,
 
 I am performing molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations of the
 thiazolidinedione pioglitazone binding to the PPAR-gamma receptor protein
 (PDB ID: 1ZGY).  The thiazolidinedione ring can exist in numerous
 different
 tautomeric states; I have attached a figure depicting several of them.
 Which tautomer would be dominant at the physiological pH of ~7.0?
 
 Also, are there any software programs that can predict which tautomer would
 be correct?
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Nancy
 
 
 
 
  
 
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