Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
Online ISSN : 2435-4953
The 97th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society
Session ID : 97_1-B-O02-2
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Structural complexity and dynamics in GPCRs revealed by vibrational spectroscopy
*Kota KatayamaKohei SuzukiRyoji SunoHideki Kandori
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GPCR signalling utilizes an allosteric coupling between the extracellular facing ligand-binding pocket and the cytoplasmic domain of the receptor that interacts with the signalling proteins. GPCR ligands impart different level of activation or deactivation of signalling proteins via GPCRs that are selectively and specifically regulated, in phenomena called ligand efficacy. The ligand efficacy remarkably affects the therapeutic properties of the ligand. Therefore, it is important to understand the molecular mechanism that determines the ligand efficacy in drug discovery research. Recently, we have attempted to use FTIR spectroscopy to study the conformational changes in muscarinic receptor (M2R) induced by ligand binding. The systematic ligand binding-induced difference FTIR spectroscopy on ligands with four different efficacies (agonist, partial agonist, antagonist, and inverse agonist) demonstrate the novel direct method for the quantitative evaluation of ligand efficacy on M2R. Notably, FTIR signals strongly correlates with the results of G-protein activity in cells. Thus, this approach emphasizes that the FTIR signal can serve as a probe to distinguish the ligand efficacy of M2R, and how FTIR spectroscopy can efficiently contribute to elucidate the underlying mechanism of ligand engagement and action towards the receptors.

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