Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 1026.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20170547

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Investigation on Binding Interactions Between Extracellular Amino-terminal Domain of GLP-1 Receptor Mutations and GLP-1 by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

CAO Hongyu1,2,*, JIN Xiaojun1, GUO Wei1, YU Yaxian1, SHI Longfei3, TANG Qian1,2, ZHENG Xuefang1,2,*   

  1. 1. College of Life Science and Biotechnology, 2. Liaoning Key Laboratory of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China
    3. Qilu Pharmaceutical, Jinan 250101, China
  • Received:2017-08-10 Online:2018-04-18 Published:2018-04-18
  • Contact: CAO Hongyu,ZHENG Xuefang
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21571025, 21601025, 21601024) and the Project of Young Science and Technology Star of Dalian City, China(No.2016-61).

Abstract:

Binding interactions between the extracellular amino-terminal domain(ECD) of glucagon-like peptide-1(GLP-1) receptor and GLP-1 were studied by molecular dynamics simulations. As shown in calculation results, the binding ligand led to conformational changes of the receptor. Pro90 and Trp91 in Loop2 and Glu128 in the C-terminus moved towards the ligand upon ligand binding. The receptor ECD was mutated in some conserved residues(P73A, V81L, Y88A, P90A and W91A), whose structures and flexibilities have changed violently. Mutations of Trp91 and Tyr88 led to complete loss of binding affinity of the ligand and the effects of those mutations were discussed elaborately. Given all the results, there was no big difference between the interactions related to the receptor ECDP73A and the wild type, which suggested that Pro73 was not vital for ligand binding, while mutation of V88L might make a complete affinity loss of GLP-1.

Key words: Glucagon-like peptide-1, Conserved site, Molecular dynamics simulation, Mutation

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