Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2708.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20120319

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Studies of Interaction Between GABA and Mutant GABAaR

WEN Xia-Xia1, NAN Shi-Bin1, HUANG Ying2, REN Tian-Rui1, YAO Jian-Hua2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China;
    2. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Received:2012-04-09 Online:2012-12-10 Published:2012-11-20
  • Contact: Tian-Rui REN E-mail:trren@shnu.edu.cn;yaojh@mail.sioc.ac.cn

Abstract:

Homology modeling and docking are important technologies in computer-aided drug design, which can explain the interactions between ligands and receptors. In this study, a rat γ-aminobutyric acid a-type receptor(GABAaR) model and its β205Tyr and β157Tyr mutant receptor models were built by homology modeling. The interactions between γ-aminobutyric acid(GABA) and the GABAaR and its mutants were studied by molecular docking, and the result show that the docking energy of the mutant receptors increases significantily and the biological activity of GABA decreases when Tyr changes to Phe; the docking energy becomes lower than that of the original receptor when Tyr changes to 4-F-Phe. In addition, the impact of β157Tyr mutations on the interaction between receptors and ligands is much more striking than that of β205Tyr when β157Tyr is closer to the ligand.

Key words: γ-Aminobutyric acid a-type receptor, Homology modeling, Amino acid mutation, Active site, Molecular docking

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