%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design %D 2006 %T Three dimensional model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus helicase ATPase catalytic domain and molecular design of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus helicase inhibitors %A Marcin Hoffmann %A Krystian Eitner %A Marcin von Grotthuss %A Leszek Rychlewski %A Ewa Banachowicz %A Tomasz Grabarkiewicz %A Tomasz Szkoda %A Andrzej Koliński %K Amino Acid Sequence %K Catalytic Domain %K Conserved Sequence %K DNA Helicases %K DNA Helicases: antagonists & inhibitors %K DNA Helicases: chemistry %K Drug Design %K Enzyme Inhibitors %K Enzyme Inhibitors: pharmacology %K Models %K Molecular %K Molecular Sequence Data %K Protein %K SARS Virus %K SARS Virus: enzymology %K Sequence Alignment %K Structural Homology %K Thermodynamics %X The modeling of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus helicase ATPase catalytic domain was performed using the protein structure prediction Meta Server and the 3D Jury method for model selection, which resulted in the identification of 1JPR, 1UAA and 1W36 PDB structures as suitable templates for creating a full atom 3D model. This model was further utilized to design small molecules that are expected to block an ATPase catalytic pocket thus inhibit the enzymatic activity. Binding sites for various functional groups were identified in a series of molecular dynamics calculation. Their positions in the catalytic pocket were used as constraints in the Cambridge structural database search for molecules having the pharmacophores that interacted most strongly with the enzyme in a desired position. The subsequent MD simulations followed by calculations of binding energies of the designed molecules were compared to ATP identifying the most successful candidates, for likely inhibitors - molecules possessing two phosphonic acid moieties at distal ends of the molecule. %B Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design %V 20 %P 305–319 %8 may %G eng %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16972168 %R 10.1007/s10822-006-9057-z