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Polypharmacology – a challenge for current drug design approaches

Podlewska Sabina, Kurczab Rafał

Science, Technology and Innovation

2019

Vol. 6, no. 3

19--23

Drug design process faces many challenges, and the most important ones are connected with side effects. Finding compounds that possess affinity towards target of interest is relatively simple; however, an approach one disease-one target is now making space for the search of polypharmacological ligands, where activity towards several proteins is considered at one time. Such proteins are not always the target ones, but very often such panels include also anti-targets, interaction with which is not desired, due to the side effects that may occur upon such contact. In the study, we examined ligands of four G protein-coupled receptors, forming antipsychotic profile: dopamine receptor D2, serotonin receptors 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C (anti-target), and 5-HT6. Number of ligands belonging to particular activity groups, as well as the selected compound structures are examined in detail. Also compound similarity between sets of different activity groups is analysed, giving a picture of difficulty of constructing molecular modeling methodologies that can help in the search of compounds with desired activity profile.

Targets for majority of drugs: G protein-coupled receptors - their structure and interaction with bioligands

Ciarkowski J., Czaplewski C., Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M.

TASK Quarterly : scientific bulletin of Academic Computer Centre in Gdansk

1998

Vol. 2, No 4

583-599

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most frequent targets for many drugs. They form the largest superfamily of integral membrane proteins, of which more than 1000 members have the following common features: (i) All GPCRs form 7 hydrophobic a-helices of length ~38A (25 amino acids, 7 turns) along a single chain. The consecutive helices alternatively cross the membrane, starting from the extracellular side, so that they form a heptahelical transmembrane domain interwoven with 6 loops, of which the even ones plus the N-terminus create the receptor's extracellular domain while the odd ones plus the C-terminus form its intracellular domain. (ii) All GPCRs are stimulated by diverse extracellular (primary) signals. (iii) Stimulated GPCRs convey the primary signals via their transmembrane and intracellular domains to the cytosolic peripheral heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins), mediating the signal's further transduction to various cellular second messenger systems. A current status of structural studies on GPCRs, consisting of low ~7.5A resolution experimental structures and supplementary molecular modeling, is outlined. Subsequently, some results of authors' own work on studying essential interactions of the V2 vasopressin renal receptor (V2R) with its agonist [Arg8]Vasopressin (AVP) and selected antagonists are presented, as well as their possible impact on the biological signal transduction is discussed. Finally, perspectives for future developments are sketched.