Homo- and heterodimerization is becoming an assessed concept in G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) pharmacology, and the notion that GPCRs may dimerize or oligomerize is allowing for a reinterpretation of some inconsistencies or anomalies and is providing medicinal chemists with potentially relevant novel molecular targets for a variety of therapeutic conditions. Recently, it has been reported that two unrelated GPCRs, namely class C metabotropic glutamate receptor type-2 (mGluR2) and class A 5HT2A serotoninergic receptor, can heterodimerize at the transmembrane domain level. We performed a 40 ns molecular dynamics simulation of the mGluR2/5HT2A heterocomplex constructed around a TM4/TM5 interface and embedded in an explicit phospholipidic bilayer surrounded by water molecules. In a separate experiment, the monomeric 5HT2A receptor was simulated for additional 40 ns under the same conditions. The analysis and the comparison of the two simulations allowed us to clearly identify a cross-talk between the two protomers and to put forward an effect of the heterodimerization on the shape of the binding pocket of 5HT2A. This result provides the first molecular explanation for the reported allosteric effect of mGluR2 on 5HT2A-mediated response and suggests that the heterocomplex can be a more suitable target for in silico screening than the monomeric protomers

Molecular dynamics simulation of the heterodimeric mGluR2/5HT(2A) complex. An atomistic resolution study of a potential new target in psychiatric conditions / A., Bruno; A., Entrena Guadix; Costantino, Gabriele. - In: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING. - ISSN 1549-960X. - 49:(2009), pp. 1602-1612. [10.1021/ci900067g]

Molecular dynamics simulation of the heterodimeric mGluR2/5HT(2A) complex. An atomistic resolution study of a potential new target in psychiatric conditions.

COSTANTINO, Gabriele
2009-01-01

Abstract

Homo- and heterodimerization is becoming an assessed concept in G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) pharmacology, and the notion that GPCRs may dimerize or oligomerize is allowing for a reinterpretation of some inconsistencies or anomalies and is providing medicinal chemists with potentially relevant novel molecular targets for a variety of therapeutic conditions. Recently, it has been reported that two unrelated GPCRs, namely class C metabotropic glutamate receptor type-2 (mGluR2) and class A 5HT2A serotoninergic receptor, can heterodimerize at the transmembrane domain level. We performed a 40 ns molecular dynamics simulation of the mGluR2/5HT2A heterocomplex constructed around a TM4/TM5 interface and embedded in an explicit phospholipidic bilayer surrounded by water molecules. In a separate experiment, the monomeric 5HT2A receptor was simulated for additional 40 ns under the same conditions. The analysis and the comparison of the two simulations allowed us to clearly identify a cross-talk between the two protomers and to put forward an effect of the heterodimerization on the shape of the binding pocket of 5HT2A. This result provides the first molecular explanation for the reported allosteric effect of mGluR2 on 5HT2A-mediated response and suggests that the heterocomplex can be a more suitable target for in silico screening than the monomeric protomers
2009
Molecular dynamics simulation of the heterodimeric mGluR2/5HT(2A) complex. An atomistic resolution study of a potential new target in psychiatric conditions / A., Bruno; A., Entrena Guadix; Costantino, Gabriele. - In: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING. - ISSN 1549-960X. - 49:(2009), pp. 1602-1612. [10.1021/ci900067g]
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