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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-7
pubmed:abstractText
Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 (MCH-R1) is a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) and a target for the development of therapeutics for obesity. The structure-based development of MCH-R1 and other GPCR antagonists is hampered by the lack of an available experimentally determined atomic structure. A ligand-steered homology modeling approach has been developed (where information about existing ligands is used explicitly to shape and optimize the binding site) followed by docking-based virtual screening. Top scoring compounds identified virtually were tested experimentally in an MCH-R1 competitive binding assay, and six novel chemotypes as low micromolar affinity antagonist "hits" were identified. This success rate is more than a 10-fold improvement over random high-throughput screening, which supports our ligand-steered method. Clearly, the ligand-steered homology modeling method reduces the uncertainty of structure modeling for difficult targets like GPCRs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-2623
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
581-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Binding, Competitive, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-CHO Cells, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Cricetulus, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Databases, Factual, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Receptors, Pituitary Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Receptors, Somatostatin, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Rhodopsin, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Stochastic Processes, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:18198821-Thermodynamics
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Discovery of novel chemotypes to a G-protein-coupled receptor through ligand-steered homology modeling and structure-based virtual screening.
pubmed:affiliation
MolSoft LLC, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Claudio.N.Cavasotto@uth.tmc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article