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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 1132-1142Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.08.010
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- National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse [DA9158, DA3801]
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The human cannabinoid 2 GPCR (hCB2) is a prime therapeutic target To define potential cysteine-related binding motifs critical to hCB2-ligand interaction, a library of hCB2 cysteine-substitution mutants and a novel, high-affinity biarylpyrazole hCB2 antagonist/inverse agonist (AM1336) functionalized to serve as a covalent affinity probe to target cysteine residues within (or in the microenvironment of) its hCB2 binding pocket were generated The data provide direct experimental demonstration that both hCB2 TMH7 cysteines [i e, C7 38(284) and C7 42(288)] are critical to optimal hCB2-AM1336 binding interaction and AM1336 pharmacological activity in a cell-based functional assay (cAMP formation) Elongating the AM1336 aliphatic side chain generated another novel hCB2 inverse agonist that binds covalently and selectively to C7 42(288) only Identification of specific cysteine residues critical to hCB2 ligand interaction and function informs the structure-based design of hCB2-targeted medicines
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