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ArticleBioinformatics and biology insights2021

Ligand Docking Methods to Recognize Allosteric Inhibitors for G-Protein-Coupled Receptors.

K Harini, S Jayashree, Vikas Tiwari, Sneha Vishwanath, Ramanathan Sowdhamini

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Article in Bioinformatics and biology insights, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

K HariniDepartment of Bioinformatics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
S JayashreeDepartment of Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.
Vikas TiwariDepartment of Bioinformatics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Sneha VishwanathDepartment of Biophysics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Ramanathan SowdhaminiDepartment of Bioinformatics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-2367
National Centre for Biological Sciences · INRMIT University · AUUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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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.

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allosteric ligandsAutoDockcognate ligandsG-protein-coupled receptorsTanimoto co-efficient

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