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GPCR homology model template selection benchmarking: Global versus local similarity measures.

ABSTRACT: G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) are integral membrane proteins of considerable interest as targets for drug development. GPCR ligand interaction studies often have a starting point with either crystal structures or comparative models. The majority of GPCR do not have experimentally-characterized 3-dimensional structures, so comparative modeling, also called homology modeling, is a good structure-based starting point. Comparative modeling is a widely used method for generating models of proteins with unknown structures by analogy to crystallized proteins that are expected to exhibit structural conservation. Traditionally, comparative modeling template selection is based on global sequence identity and shared function. However high sequence identity localized to the ligand binding pocket may produce better models to examine protein-ligand interactions. This in silico benchmark study examined the performance of a global versus local similarity measure applied to comparative modeling template selection for 6 previously crystallized, class A GCPR (CXCR4, FFAR1, NOP, P2Y12, OPRK, and M1) with the long-term goal of optimizing GPCR ligand identification efforts. Comparative models were generated from templates selected using both global and local similarity measures. Similarity to reference crystal structures was reflected in RMSD values between atom positions throughout the structure or localized to the ligand binding pocket. Overall, models deviated from the reference crystal structure to a similar degree regardless of whether the template was selected using a global or local similarity measure. Ligand docking simulations were performed to assess relative performance in predicting protein-ligand complex structures and interaction networks. Calculated RMSD values between ligand poses from docking simulations and crystal structures indicate that models based on locally selected templates give docked poses that better mimic crystallographic ligand positions than those based on globally-selected templates in five of the six benchmark cases. However, protein model refinement strategies in advance of ligand docking applications are clearly essential as the average RMSD between crystallographic poses and poses docked into local template models was 9.7?Å and typically less than half of the ligand interaction sites are shared between the docked and crystallographic poses. These data support the utilization of local similarity measures to guide template selection in protocols using comparative models to investigate ligand-receptor interactions.

SUBMITTER: Castleman PN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6449851 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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GPCR homology model template selection benchmarking: Global versus local similarity measures.

Castleman Paige N PN Sears Chandler K CK Cole Judith A JA Baker Daniel L DL Parrill Abby L AL

Journal of molecular graphics & modelling 20181021

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) are integral membrane proteins of considerable interest as targets for drug development. GPCR ligand interaction studies often have a starting point with either crystal structures or comparative models. The majority of GPCR do not have experimentally-characterized 3-dimensional structures, so comparative modeling, also called homology modeling, is a good structure-based starting point. Comparative modeling is a widely used method for generating models of protei ...[more]

PMID: 30390544

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Project description:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) comprise the largest family of membrane proteins and are of considerable interest as targets for drug development. However, many GPCR structures remain unsolved. To address the structural ambiguity of these receptors, computational tools such as homology modeling and loop modeling are often employed to generate predictive receptor structures. Here we combined both methods to benchmark a protocol incorporating homology modeling based on a locally selected template and extracellular loop modeling that additionally evaluates the presence of template ligands during these modeling steps. Ligands were also docked using three docking methods and two pose selection methods to elucidate an optimal ligand pose selection method. Results suggest that local template-based homology models followed by loop modeling produce more accurate and predictive receptor models than models produced without loop modeling, with decreases in average receptor and ligand RMSD of 0.54 Å and 2.91 Å, respectively. Ligand docking results showcased the ability of MOE induced fit docking to produce ligand poses with atom root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) values at least 0.20 Å lower (on average) than the other two methods benchmarked in this study. In addition, pose selection methods (software-based scoring, ligand complementation) selected lower RMSD poses with MOE induced fit docking than either of the other methods (averaging at least 1.57 Å lower), indicating that MOE induced fit docking is most suited for docking into GPCR homology models in our hands. In addition, target receptor models produced with a template ligand present throughout the modeling process most often produced target ligand poses with RMSD values ≤ 4.5 Å and Tanimoto coefficients > 0.6 after selection based on ligand complementation than target receptor models produced in the absence of template ligands. Overall, the findings produced by this study support the use of local template homology modeling in combination with de novo ECL2 modeling in the presence of a ligand from the template crystal structure to generate GPCR models intended to study ligand binding interactions.

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