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ArticleScientific reports2017

Dynamical Binding Modes Determine Agonistic and Antagonistic Ligand Effects in the Prostate-Specific G-Protein Coupled Receptor (PSGR).

Steffen Wolf, Nikolina Jovancevic, Lian Gelis, Sebastian Pietsch, Hanns Hatt, Klaus Gerwert

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Steffen WolfDepartment of Biophysics, ND 04 North, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany. swolf@bph.rub.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1752-6175
Nikolina JovancevicDepartment of Cellphysiology, ND 4, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
Lian GelisDepartment of Cellphysiology, ND 4, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
Sebastian PietschDepartment of Biophysics, ND 04 North, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
Hanns HattDepartment of Cellphysiology, ND 4, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
Klaus GerwertDepartment of Biophysics, ND 04 North, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
Ruhr University Bochum · DEChinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We analysed the ligand-based activation mechanism of the prostate-specific G-protein coupled receptor (PSGR), which is an olfactory receptor that mediates cellular growth in prostate cancer cells. Furthermore, it is an olfactory receptor with a known chemically near identic antagonist/agonist pair, α- and β-ionone. Using a combined theoretical and experimental approach, we propose that this receptor is activated by a ligand-induced rearrangement of a protein-internal hydrogen bond network. Surprisingly, this rearrangement is not induced by interaction of the ligand with the network, but by dynamic van der Waals contacts of the ligand with the involved amino acid side chains, altering their conformations and intraprotein connectivity. Ligand recognition in this GPCR is therefore highly stereo selective, but seemingly lacks any ligand recognition via polar contacts. A putative olfactory receptor-based drug design scheme will have to take this unique mode of protein/ligand action into account.

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AnimalsHumansHydrogen BondingMaleProstateReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledReceptors, OdorantReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledReceptors, Odorant

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PMID29167480
PMCPMC5700038
OpenAlexW2769055697

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