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Molecular Mechanism of Action of ROR?t Agonists and Inverse Agonists: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation.


ABSTRACT: As an attractive drug-target, retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor-gamma-t (ROR?t) has been employed widely to develop clinically relevant small molecular modulators as potent therapy for autoimmune disease and cancer, but its molecular mechanism of action (MOA) remains unclear. In the present study, we designed and discovered two novel ROR?t ligands that are similar in structure, but different in efficacy. Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay, compound 1 was identified as an agonist with an EC50 of 3.7 ?M (max. act.: 78%), while compound 2 as an inverse agonist with an IC50 value of 2.0 ?M (max. inh.: 61%). We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and elucidated the MOA of ROR?t agonist and inverse agonist. Through the analyses of our MD results, we found that, after ROR?t is bound with the agonist 1, the side chain of Trp317 stays in the gauche- conformation, and thus helps to form the hydrogen bond, His479-Trp502, and a large hydrophobic network among H11, H11', and H12. All these interactions stabilize the H12, and helps the receptor recruit the coactivator. When the ROR?t is bound with the inverse agonist 2, the side chain of Trp317 is forced to adopt the trans conformation, and these presumed interactions are partially destroyed. Taken together, the critical role of residue Trp317 could be viewed as the driving force for the activation of ROR?t.

SUBMITTER: Sun N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6321388 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular Mechanism of Action of RORγt Agonists and Inverse Agonists: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation.

Sun Nannan N   Yuan Congmin C   Ma Xiaojun X   Wang Yonghui Y   Gu Xianfeng X   Fu Wei W  

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20181203 12


As an attractive drug-target, retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor-gamma-t (RORγt) has been employed widely to develop clinically relevant small molecular modulators as potent therapy for autoimmune disease and cancer, but its molecular mechanism of action (MOA) remains unclear. In the present study, we designed and discovered two novel RORγt ligands that are similar in structure, but different in efficacy. Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay, compound <b>1</b> wa  ...[more]

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