TY - JOUR
T1 - A three-site mechanism for agonist/antagonist selective binding to vasopressin receptors
AU - Saleh, Noureldin
AU - Saladino, Giorgio
AU - Gervasio, Francesco L.
AU - Haensele, Elke
AU - Banting, Lee
AU - Whitley, David C.
AU - Sopkova-de Oliveira Santos, Jana
AU - Bureau, Ronan
AU - Clark, Timothy
PY - 2016/7/5
Y1 - 2016/7/5
N2 - Molecular-dynamics simulations with metadynamics enhanced sampling reveal three distinct binding sites for arginine vasopressin (AVP) within its V2-receptor (V2R). Two of these, the vestibule and intermediate sites, block (antagonize) the receptor, and the third is the orthosteric activation (agonist) site. The contacts found for the orthosteric site satisfy all the requirements deduced from mutagenesis experiments. Metadynamics simulations for V2R and its V1aR-analog give an excellent correlation with experimental binding free energies by assuming that the most stable binding site in the simulations corresponds to the experimental binding free energy in each case. The resulting three-site mechanism separates agonists from antagonists and explains subtype selectivity.
AB - Molecular-dynamics simulations with metadynamics enhanced sampling reveal three distinct binding sites for arginine vasopressin (AVP) within its V2-receptor (V2R). Two of these, the vestibule and intermediate sites, block (antagonize) the receptor, and the third is the orthosteric activation (agonist) site. The contacts found for the orthosteric site satisfy all the requirements deduced from mutagenesis experiments. Metadynamics simulations for V2R and its V1aR-analog give an excellent correlation with experimental binding free energies by assuming that the most stable binding site in the simulations corresponds to the experimental binding free energy in each case. The resulting three-site mechanism separates agonists from antagonists and explains subtype selectivity.
UR - http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10048283
U2 - 10.1002/ange.201602729
DO - 10.1002/ange.201602729
M3 - Article
SN - 0044-8249
VL - 128
SP - 8140
EP - 8144
JO - Angewandte Chemie
JF - Angewandte Chemie
IS - 28
ER -