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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 38, Pages 9293-9300Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02162
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- NIH [1R01HL155532, P01HL114471]
- KISTI National Supercomputing Center [KSC-2018-CHA-0049]
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The study identified the activation structure of TAS2R5 receptors and the binding mode with agonists, providing valuable insights into how agonists activate TAS2R5 and the design of novel drugs.
Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) function in taste perception, but are also expressed in many extraoral tissues, presenting attractive therapeutic targets. TAS2R5s expressed on human airway smooth muscle cells can induce bronchodilation for treating asthma and other obstructive diseases. But TAS2R5s display low agonist affinity and the lack of a 3D structure has hindered efforts to design more active ligands. We report the structure of the activated TAS2R5 coupled to the Gi protein and bound to each of 19 agonists, using computational approaches. These agonists bind to two polar residues in TM3 that are unique for TAS2R5 among 25 TAS2R subtypes. Our predicted results correlate well with experimental results of agonist-receptor signaling coefficients, providing validation of the predicted structure. These results provide highly specific data on how agonists activate TAS2R5, how modifications of ligand structure alter receptor activation, and a guide to structure-based drug design.
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