Yanamala, Naveena published the artcilePreferential binding of allosteric modulators to active and inactive conformational states of metabotropic glutamate receptors, Category: quinoxaline, the publication is BMC Bioinformatics (2008), No pp. given, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are G protein coupled receptors that play important roles in synaptic plasticity and other neuro-physiol. and pathol. processes. Allosteric mGluR ligands are particularly promising drug targets because of their modulatory effects – enhancing or suppressing the response of mGluRs to glutamate. The mechanism by which this modulation occurs is not known. Here, the authors propose the hypothesis that pos. and neg. modulators will differentially stabilize the active and inactive conformations of the receptors, resp. To test this hypothesis, the authors have generated computational models of the transmembrane regions of different mGluR subtypes in two different conformations. The inactive conformation was modeled using the crystal structure of the inactive, dark state of rhodopsin as template and the active conformation was created based on a recent model of the light-activated state of rhodopsin. Ligands for which the nature of their allosteric effects on mGluRs is exptl. known were docked to the modeled mGluR structures using ArgusLab and Autodock softwares. The authors find that the allosteric ligand binding pockets of mGluRs are overlapping with the retinal binding pocket of rhodopsin, and that ligands have strong preferences for the active and inactive states depending on their modulatory nature. In 8 out of 14 cases (57%), the neg. modulators bound the inactive conformations with significant preference using both docking programs, and 6 out of 9 cases (67%), the pos. modulators bound the active conformations. Considering results by the individual programs only, even higher correlations were observed: 12/14 (86%) and 8/9 (89%) for ArgusLab and 10/14 (71%) and 7/9 (78%) for AutoDock. These findings strongly support the hypothesis that mGluR allosteric modulation occurs via stabilization of different conformations analogous to those identified in rhodopsin where they are induced by photochem. isomerization of the retinal ligand – despite the extensive differences in sequences between mGluRs and rhodopsin.
BMC Bioinformatics published new progress about 226878-01-9. 226878-01-9 belongs to quinoxaline, auxiliary class Neuronal Signaling,mGluR, name is N-(Adamantan-1-yl)quinoxaline-2-carboxamide, and the molecular formula is C38H74Cl2N2O4, Category: quinoxaline.
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