期刊
FEBS JOURNAL
卷 279, 期 17, 页码 3112-3120出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08690.x
关键词
allosteric mechanism; GPCR; molecular dynamics; T1R1; T1R3; umami taste receptor
资金
- Danish National Research Foundation
- Lundbeck Junior Group
- Lundbeck Foundation [R82-2011-7280] Funding Source: researchfish
The fifth taste quality, umami, arises from binding of glutamate to the umami receptor T1R1/T1R3. The umami taste is enhanced several-fold upon addition of free nucleotides such as guanosine-5'-monophosphate (GMP) to glutamate-containing food. GMP may operate via binding to the ligand-binding domain of the T1R1 part of the umami receptor at an allosteric site. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that GMP can stabilize the closed (active) state of T1R1 by binding to the outer vestibule of the so-called Venus flytrap domain of the receptor. The transition between the closed and open conformations was accessed in the simulations. Using principal component analysis, we show that the dynamics of the Venus flytrap domain along the hinge-bending motion that activates signaling is dampened significantly upon binding of glutamate, and further slows down upon binding of GMP at an allosteric site, thus suggesting a molecular mechanism of cooperativity between GMP and glutamate.
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