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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 116, Issue 43, Pages 12991-12996Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp309888u
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India
- Department of Bio-technology, Govt. of India
- Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
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The serotonin(1A) receptor is a representative member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily and serves as an important drug target in the development of therapeutic agents for neuropsychiatric disorders. Previous work has shown the requirement of membrane cholesterol in the organization, dynamics, and function of the serotonin(1A) receptor. We show here that membrane cholesterol binds preferentially to certain sites on the serotonin(1A) receptor by performing multiple, long time scale MARTINI coarse-grain molecular dynamics simulations. Interestingly, our results identify the highly conserved cholesterol recognition/interaction amino acid consensus (CRAC) motif on transmembrane helix V as one of the sites with high cholesterol occupancy, thereby confirming its role as a putative cholesterol binding motif. These results represent the first direct evidence for membrane cholesterol binding to specific sites on the serotonin(1A) receptor and represent an important step in our overall understanding of GPCR function in health and disease.
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