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Ligand Docking Methods to Recognize Allosteric Inhibitors for G-Protein-Coupled Receptors

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Authors

Harini, K 
Jayashree, S 
Tiwari, Vikas 
Vishwanath, Sneha 
Sowdhamini, Ramanathan  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-2367

Abstract

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are membrane proteins which play an important role in many cellular processes and are excellent drug targets. Despite the existence of several US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved GPCR-targeting drugs, there is a continuing challenge of side effects owing to the nonspecific nature of drug binding. We have investigated the diversity of the ligand binding site for this class of proteins against their cognate ligands using computational docking, even if their structures are known already in the ligand-complexed form. The cognate ligand of some of these receptors dock at allosteric binding site with better score than the binding at the conservative site. Interestingly, amino acid residues at such allosteric binding site are not conserved across GPCR subfamilies. Such a computational approach can assist in the prediction of specific allosteric binders for GPCRs.

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Keywords

Original Research, G-protein-coupled receptors, allosteric ligands, AutoDock, cognate ligands, Tanimoto co-efficient

Journal Title

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

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Journal ISSN

1177-9322

Volume Title

15

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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Embargo: ends 2021-10-28