Characterizing the energetic states of the GluR2 ligand binding domain core-dimer.
Tetrameric ligand binding domains of the family of ionotropic glutamate receptors assemble as dimers-of-dimers. Crystallographic studies of several glutamate receptor subtype isolated core-dimers suggest a single stable dimeric conformation. A binding domain dimer has not been captured in other conformations without the aid of biochemical methods to disrupt a critical dimer interface. Molecular dynamics simulations and continuum electrostatics calculations reveal that the active glutamate bound form of the ligand-binding domain found in typical crystal structures is the preferred energetic state of the isolated core-dimer in the presence of agonist glutamate. A desensitized conformational state is a higher energy ligand-bound state of the core-dimer. The resting apo conformational state is comparatively the least energetically favored conformation and does not contain a single state but a set of energetically equivalent conformational core-dimer states. We hypothesize the energetic balance of an open versus closed transmembrane region must be included to characterize the absolute energetic states of the full receptor, which in the presence of the ligand is believed to be a desensitized state.
Michael
M
Yonkunas
Maria
M
Kurnikova
D001665:Binding Sites; D019281:Dimerization; D006801:Humans; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000737:chemistry; D011485:Protein Binding; D018091:Receptors, AMPA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
D008024:Ligands; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents; D018091:Receptors, AMPA; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; C104722:glutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 2
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