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Also, further research will need to be conducted on these amino acids to determine which are most
probably to have hydrogen bonding or other interactions with the new ca27 binding pocket. It is
also known that a T877->A877 mutation increases activity of the LBD DHT binding pocket in the
AR and it would be interesting to further analyze mutations such as
these in this new binding
pocket to determine if a similar scenario could be developed that
could further increase the
effectiveness of therapeutic treatments. These results are then corroborated by 1-Click Docking
and therefore AutoDock by proxy. The 1-Click docking results are not very conclusive on their
own however, combined with the analysis of the MolSoft results, there is a strong probability of a
different pocket in the AR. In reference to the various ligands, ca27 consistently had a strong
binding affinity to the pocket of interest however, ca58 also had a strong binding affinity in many
of the trials run. Both of these molecules will need to be further tested as these computational
models cannot state which will bind better, simply that they both have a strong binding affinity.
Most importantly, testing in biophysical and biochemical
in vitro
assays are needed to compliment
and/or corroborate these computational models.
Finally, the AutoLigand results, while interesting, are not conclusive.
The output of AutoLigand
is not a very conceivable ligand and further studies will need to be conducted on AutoLigand in
an attempt to improve the results and output a conceivable molecule to bind to the LBD of the AR.