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Title: Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs

Abstract

The recent increase in the number of X-ray crystal structures of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been enabling for structure-based drug design (SBDD) efforts. These structures have revealed that GPCRs are highly dynamic macromolecules whose function is dependent on their intrinsic flexibility. Unfortunately, the use of static structures to understand ligand binding can potentially be misleading, especially in systems with an inherently high degree of conformational flexibility. Here, we show that docking a set of dopamine D3 receptor compounds into the existing eticlopride-bound dopamine D3 receptor (D3R) X-ray crystal structure resulted in poses that were not consistent with results obtained from site-directed mutagenesis experiments. We overcame the limitations of static docking by using large-scale high-throughput molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Markov state models (MSMs) to determine an alternative pose consistent with the mutation data. The new pose maintains critical interactions observed in the D3R/eticlopride X-ray crystal structure and suggests that a cryptic pocket forms due to the shift of a highly conserved residue, F6.52. Our study highlights the importance of GPCR dynamics to understand ligand binding and provides new opportunities for drug discovery.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); Acellera, Barcelona (Spain)
  2. Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Groton, CT (United States)
  3. Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  4. Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); Acellera, Barcelona (Spain); Inst. Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona (Spain)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Sponsoring Org.:
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain (MINECO); FEDER
OSTI Identifier:
1440593
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Computational chemistry

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Ferruz, Noelia, Doerr, Stefan, Vanase-Frawley, Michelle A., Zou, Yaozhong, Chen, Xiaomin, Marr, Eric S., Nelson, Robin T., Kormos, Bethany L., Wager, Travis T., Hou, Xinjun, Villalobos, Anabella, Sciabola, Simone, and De Fabritiis, Gianni. Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19345-7.
Ferruz, Noelia, Doerr, Stefan, Vanase-Frawley, Michelle A., Zou, Yaozhong, Chen, Xiaomin, Marr, Eric S., Nelson, Robin T., Kormos, Bethany L., Wager, Travis T., Hou, Xinjun, Villalobos, Anabella, Sciabola, Simone, & De Fabritiis, Gianni. Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19345-7
Ferruz, Noelia, Doerr, Stefan, Vanase-Frawley, Michelle A., Zou, Yaozhong, Chen, Xiaomin, Marr, Eric S., Nelson, Robin T., Kormos, Bethany L., Wager, Travis T., Hou, Xinjun, Villalobos, Anabella, Sciabola, Simone, and De Fabritiis, Gianni. Wed . "Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19345-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440593.
@article{osti_1440593,
title = {Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs},
author = {Ferruz, Noelia and Doerr, Stefan and Vanase-Frawley, Michelle A. and Zou, Yaozhong and Chen, Xiaomin and Marr, Eric S. and Nelson, Robin T. and Kormos, Bethany L. and Wager, Travis T. and Hou, Xinjun and Villalobos, Anabella and Sciabola, Simone and De Fabritiis, Gianni},
abstractNote = {The recent increase in the number of X-ray crystal structures of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been enabling for structure-based drug design (SBDD) efforts. These structures have revealed that GPCRs are highly dynamic macromolecules whose function is dependent on their intrinsic flexibility. Unfortunately, the use of static structures to understand ligand binding can potentially be misleading, especially in systems with an inherently high degree of conformational flexibility. Here, we show that docking a set of dopamine D3 receptor compounds into the existing eticlopride-bound dopamine D3 receptor (D3R) X-ray crystal structure resulted in poses that were not consistent with results obtained from site-directed mutagenesis experiments. We overcame the limitations of static docking by using large-scale high-throughput molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Markov state models (MSMs) to determine an alternative pose consistent with the mutation data. The new pose maintains critical interactions observed in the D3R/eticlopride X-ray crystal structure and suggests that a cryptic pocket forms due to the shift of a highly conserved residue, F6.52. Our study highlights the importance of GPCR dynamics to understand ligand binding and provides new opportunities for drug discovery.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-018-19345-7},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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Inclusion of enclosed hydration effects in the binding free energy estimation of dopamine D3 receptor complexes
journal, September 2019


Cryptic pocket formation underlies allosteric modulator selectivity at muscarinic GPCRs
journal, July 2019


Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Allosteric Modulation of the Adenosine A2a Receptor by a Mini-G Protein
journal, April 2019


Inclusion of enclosed hydration effects in the binding free energy estimation of dopamine D3 receptor complexes
journal, September 2019


Insights From Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Number of G-Protein Coupled Receptor Targets for the Treatment of Pain and Opioid Use Disorders
journal, August 2019

  • Ribeiro, João Marcelo Lamim; Filizola, Marta
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Vol. 12
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00207