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ArticleCurrent opinion in toxicology2017

Molecular modeling of the AhR structure and interactions can shed light on ligand-dependent activation and transformation mechanisms.

Laura Bonati, Dario Corrada, Sara Giani Tagliabue, Stefano Motta

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Article in Current opinion in toxicology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura BonatiDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Dario CorradaDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Sara Giani TagliabueDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.
Stefano MottaDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.
University of Milano-Bicocca · IT

Funding

RECOMBINANT DETECTION SYSTEMS FOR DIOXIN LIKE CHEMICALSR01ES007685 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI DENISON, MICHAEL STEVEN · 1995 to 2019
$4.7M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES007685
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular modeling has given important contributions to elucidation of the main stages in the AhR signal transduction pathway. Despite the lack of experimentally determined structures of the AhR functional domains, information derived from homologous systems has been exploited for modeling their structure and interactions. Homology models of the AhR PASB domain have provided information on the binding cavity and contributed to elucidate species-specific differences in ligand binding. Molecular Docking simulations of the ligand binding process have given insights into differences in binding of diverse agonists, antagonists, and selective AhR modulators, and their application to virtual screening of large databases of compounds have allowed identification of novel AhR ligands. Recently available structural information on protein-protein and protein-DNA complexes of other bHLH-PAS systems has opened the way for modeling the AhR:ARNT dimer structure and investigating the mechanisms of AhR transformation and DNA binding. Future research directions should include simulation of the protein dynamics to obtain a more reliable description of intermolecular interactions involved in signal transmission.

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dimerizationligand-bindingmolecular dockingmolecular dynamicsmolecular modelingprotein-protein interactions

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PMID28497129
PMCPMC5421400
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