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Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study

The histamine H [Formula: see text] receptor (H(2)R) plays an important role in the regulation of gastric acid secretion. Therefore, it is a main drug target for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux or peptic ulcer disease. However, there is as of yet no 3D-structural information available hampe...

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Autores principales: Conrad, Marcus, Söldner, Christian A., Miao, Yinglong, Sticht, Heinrich
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32932742
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21186693
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author Conrad, Marcus
Söldner, Christian A.
Miao, Yinglong
Sticht, Heinrich
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description The histamine H [Formula: see text] receptor (H(2)R) plays an important role in the regulation of gastric acid secretion. Therefore, it is a main drug target for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux or peptic ulcer disease. However, there is as of yet no 3D-structural information available hampering a mechanistic understanding of H(2)R. Therefore, we created a model of the histamine-H(2)R-G(s) complex based on the structure of the ternary complex of the [Formula: see text]-adrenoceptor and investigated the conformational stability of this active GPCR conformation. Since the physiologically relevant motions with respect to ligand binding and conformational changes of GPCRs can only partly be assessed on the timescale of conventional MD (cMD) simulations, we also applied metadynamics and Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) simulations. A multiple walker metadynamics simulation in combination with cMD was applied for the determination of the histamine binding mode. The preferential binding pose detected is in good agreement with previous data from site directed mutagenesis and provides a basis for rational ligand design. Inspection of the H(2)R-G(s) interface reveals a network of polar interactions that may contribute to H(2)R coupling selectivity. The cMD and GaMD simulations demonstrate that the active conformation is retained on a [Formula: see text] s-timescale in the ternary histamine-H(2)R-G(s) complex and in a truncated complex that contains only G(s) helix [Formula: see text] 5 instead of the entire G protein. In contrast, histamine alone is unable to stabilize the active conformation, which is in line with previous studies of other GPCRs.
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spelling pubmed-75548372020-10-14 Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study Conrad, Marcus Söldner, Christian A. Miao, Yinglong Sticht, Heinrich Int J Mol Sci Article The histamine H [Formula: see text] receptor (H(2)R) plays an important role in the regulation of gastric acid secretion. Therefore, it is a main drug target for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux or peptic ulcer disease. However, there is as of yet no 3D-structural information available hampering a mechanistic understanding of H(2)R. Therefore, we created a model of the histamine-H(2)R-G(s) complex based on the structure of the ternary complex of the [Formula: see text]-adrenoceptor and investigated the conformational stability of this active GPCR conformation. Since the physiologically relevant motions with respect to ligand binding and conformational changes of GPCRs can only partly be assessed on the timescale of conventional MD (cMD) simulations, we also applied metadynamics and Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) simulations. A multiple walker metadynamics simulation in combination with cMD was applied for the determination of the histamine binding mode. The preferential binding pose detected is in good agreement with previous data from site directed mutagenesis and provides a basis for rational ligand design. Inspection of the H(2)R-G(s) interface reveals a network of polar interactions that may contribute to H(2)R coupling selectivity. The cMD and GaMD simulations demonstrate that the active conformation is retained on a [Formula: see text] s-timescale in the ternary histamine-H(2)R-G(s) complex and in a truncated complex that contains only G(s) helix [Formula: see text] 5 instead of the entire G protein. In contrast, histamine alone is unable to stabilize the active conformation, which is in line with previous studies of other GPCRs. MDPI 2020-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7554837/ /pubmed/32932742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21186693 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study
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title_full Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study
title_fullStr Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study
title_full_unstemmed Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study
title_short Agonist Binding and G Protein Coupling in Histamine H(2) Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study
title_sort agonist binding and g protein coupling in histamine h(2) receptor: a molecular dynamics study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32932742
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21186693
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