摘要
GPCR plays a key role in signal transduction between intracellular and extracellular and has been important drug target.Recently,many experimental studies found that GPCRs can form the dimer or oligomer,which are another potential functional units besides their monomers.However,there have been absent of knowledge about structures,dynamics and functions of GPCR dimers.Thus,we,herein,we used the Elastic Network Model(ENM)and Protein Structure Network(PSN)to study the three GPCR dimers(viz.,CXCR4,κ-opioid R,β1AR)with different interfaces according to their basic topologic structures.The low-frequency modes from ENM indicate that the three GPCR monomers commonly present an antisymmetric rotation between extracelluar and intracellar motifs while their dimers exhibit an asymmetrical fluctuation between the two protomers,which should contribute to the negative cooperation between the two protomers and the asymmetric activation of GPCR dimers reported by experiments.PSN reveal that the dimerization can reduce informational flows characterized by the communication pathways between intracellular and extracellular,resulted from weakening restricts between TMs.The comparison between the monomer and protomer of the dimer shows that the TM1-TM2-H8 interface play more significant role in influencing the dynamics of the promoter with respect to TM5-TM6 one.Consequently,the most significant effect of the dimerization is observed forκ-opioid with TM1-TM2-H8 interface.B1AR also exhibits more difference between its monomer and dimer than CXCR4 due to larger contact areas in the interface ofβ1AR,although they have same TM4-TM5 interfaces.These observations from the work could provide valuable information for understanding the structure and function of GPCR dimers.
GPCR plays a key role in signal transduction between intracellular and extracellular and has been important drug target.Recently,many experimental studies found that GPCRs can form the dimer or oligomer,which are another potential functional units besides their monomers.However,there have been absent of knowledge about structures,dynamics and functions of GPCR dimers.Thus,we,herein,we used the Elastic Network Model(ENM) and Protein Structure Network(PSN) to study the three GPCR dimers(viz.,CXCR4,K-opioid R,β1AR) with different interfaces according to their basic topologic structures.The low-frequency modes from ENM indicate that the three GPCR monomers commonly present an antisymmetric rotation between extracelluar and intracellar motifs while their dimers exhibit an asymmetrical fluctuation between the two protomers,which should contribute to the negative cooperation between the two protomers and the asymmetric activation of GPCR dimers reported by experiments.PSN reveal that the dimerization can reduce informational flows characterized by the communication pathways between intracellular and extracellular,resulted from weakening restricts between TMs.The comparison between the monomer and protomer of the dimer shows that the TM1-TM2-H8 interface play more significant role in influencing the dynamics of the promoter with respect to TM5-TM6 one.Consequently,the most significant effect of the dimerization is observed for K-opioid with TM1-TM2-H8 interface.B1 AR also exhibits more difference between its monomer and dimer than CXCR4 due to larger contact areas in the interface of β1AR,although they have same TM4-TM5 interfaces.These observations from the work could provide valuable information for understanding the structure and function of GPCR dimers.
引文
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