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EnglishCB2 receptor belongs to the large family of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) controlling a wide variety of signal transduction. The recent crystallographic determination of human β2 adrenoreceptor and its high sequence similarity with human CB2 receptor (hCB2) prompted us to compute a theoretical model of hCB2 based also on β2 adrenoreceptor coordinates. This model has been employed to perform docking and molecular dynamic simulations on WIN-55,212-2 (CB2 agonist commonly used in binding experiments), in order to identify the putative CB2 receptor agonist binding site, followed by molecular docking studies on a series of indol-3-yl-tetramethylcyclopropyl ketone derivatives, a novel class of potent CB2 agonists. Successively, docking-based Comparative Molecular Fields Analysis (CoMFA) and Comparative Molecular Similarity Indices Analysis (CoMSIA) studies were also performed. The CoMSIA model resulted to be the more predictive, showing r ncv 2 = 0.96, r cv 2 = 0.713, SEE = 0.193, F = 125.223, and r 2 pred = 0.78. The obtained 3D-QSAR models allowed us to derive more complete guidelines for the design of new analogues with improved potency so as to synthesize new indoles showing high CB2 affinity
| Titolo: | Homology modeling in tandem with 3D-QSAR analyses: A computational approach to depict the agonist binding site of the human CB2 Receptor |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
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| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11386/3874966 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1.2 Articolo su rivista con ISSN |
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