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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
Privileged structures are ligand substructures that are widely used to generate high-affinity ligands for more than one type of receptor. To explain this, we surmised that there must be some common feature in the target proteins. For a set of class A GPCRs, we found a good correlation between conservation patterns of residues in the ligand binding pocket and the privileged structure fragments in class A GPCR ligands. A major part of interior surface of the common ligand binding pocket of class A receptors, identified in many GPCRs, is lined with variable residues that are responsible for selectivity in ligand recognition, while other regions, typically located deeper into the binding pocket, are more conserved and retain a predominantly hydrophobic and aromatic character. The latter is reflected in the chemical nature of most GPCR privileged structures and is proposed to be the common feature that is recognized by the privileged structures. Further, we find that this subpocket is conserved even in distant orthologs within the class A family. Three pairs of ligands recognizing widely different receptor types were docked into receptor models of their target receptors utilizing available structure- activity relationships and mutagenesis data. For each pair of ligands, the ligand-receptor complexes reveal that the nature of the privileged structure binding pocket is conserved between the two complexes, in support of our hypothesis. Only part of the privileged structures can be accommodated within the conserved subpocket. Some contacts are established between the privileged structure and the nonconserved parts of the binding pocket. This implies that any one particular privileged structure can target only a subset of receptors, those complementary to the full privileged structure. Our hypothesis leads to a valuable novelty in that ligand libraries can be designed without any foreknowledge of the structure of the endogenous ligand, which in turn means that even orphan receptors can in principle now be addressed as potential drug targets.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Biphenyl Compounds, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Indans, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Indoles, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ligands, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Piperidines, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Ghrelin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Serotonin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Spiro Compounds, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tetrazoles, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/serotonin 6 receptor
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-2623
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
888-99
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Biphenyl Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Indans, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Indoles, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Piperidines, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Receptors, Ghrelin, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Receptors, Serotonin, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Spiro Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:14761190-Tetrazoles
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Recognition of privileged structures by G-protein coupled receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Protein Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry, and Discovery Biology, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, DK-2760 Måløv, Denmark. kbaa@novonordisk.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article