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Allosteric Ligands for the Pharmacologically Dark Receptors GPR68 and GPR65

Allosteric Ligands for the Pharmacologically Dark Receptors GPR68 and GPR65

Xi-Ping Huang, Joel Karpiak, Wesley K Kroeze, Hu Zhu, Xin Chen, Sheryl S Moy, Kara A Saddoris, Viktoriya D Nikolova, Martilias S Farrell, Sheng Wang, Thomas J Mangano, Deepak A Deshpande, Alice Jiang, Raymond B Penn, etc.

Nature. 2015 Nov 26;527(7579):477-83.

PMID: 26550826

Abstract:

At least 120 non-olfactory G-protein-coupled receptors in the human genome are 'orphans' for which endogenous ligands are unknown, and many have no selective ligands, hindering the determination of their biological functions and clinical relevance. Among these is GPR68, a proton receptor that lacks small molecule modulators for probing its biology. Using yeast-based screens against GPR68, here we identify the benzodiazepine drug lorazepam as a non-selective GPR68 positive allosteric modulator. More than 3,000 GPR68 homology models were refined to recognize lorazepam in a putative allosteric site. Docking 3.1 million molecules predicted new GPR68 modulators, many of which were confirmed in functional assays. One potent GPR68 modulator, ogerin, suppressed recall in fear conditioning in wild-type but not in GPR68-knockout mice. The same approach led to the discovery of allosteric agonists and negative allosteric modulators for GPR65. Combining physical and structure-based screening may be broadly useful for ligand discovery for understudied and orphan GPCRs.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1309198717	Ogerin		1309198-71-7	Price

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