TitleLigand Docking Methods to Recognize Allosteric Inhibitors for G-Protein-Coupled Receptors.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsHarini K, Jayashree S, Tiwari V, Vishwanath S, Sowdhamini R
JournalBioinform Biol Insights
Volume15
Pagination11779322211037769
Date Published2021
ISSN1177-9322
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.

DOI10.1177/11779322211037769
Alternate JournalBioinform Biol Insights
PubMed ID34733103
PubMed Central IDPMC8558589