Journal
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 69, Issue 24, Pages 4205-4213Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1116-0
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Molecular dynamics; Free energy; Odorant; GPCR; Structure
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- University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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The molecular features that dominate the binding mode of agonists by a broadly tuned olfactory receptor are analyzed through a joint approach combining cell biology, calcium imaging, and molecular modeling. The odorant/receptor affinities, estimated through statistics accrued during molecular dynamics simulations, are in accordance with the experimental ranking. Although in many systems receptors recognize their target through a network of oriented interactions, such as H-bonding, the binding by broadly tuned olfactory receptors is dominated by non-polar terms. We show how such a feature allows chemicals belonging to different chemical families to similarly activate the receptors through compensations of interactions within the binding site.
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