A three-site mechanism for agonist/antagonist selective binding to vasopressin receptors

Noureldin Saleh, Giorgio Saladino, Francesco L. Gervasio, Elke Haensele, Lee Banting, David C. Whitley, Jana Sopkova-de Oliveira Santos, Ronan Bureau, Timothy Clark

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)8140-8144
    Number of pages5
    JournalAngewandte Chemie
    Volume128
    Issue number28
    Early online date13 May 2016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2016

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