title: Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs at the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) elucidates their inhibition mechanism.
abstract: Dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) plays a pivotal role in nervous systems. Its dysfunction leads to the schizophrenia, Parkinson's diseases and drug addiction. Since the crystal structure of the D2R was not solved yet, discovering of potent and highly selective anti-psychotic drugs carry challenges for different neurodegenerative diseases. In the current study, we modeled the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the D2R based on a recently crystallized structure of the dopamine D3 receptor. These two receptors share a high amino acid sequence homology (>70%). The interaction of the modeled receptor with well-known atypical and typical anti-psychotic drugs and the inhibition mechanisms of drugs at the catalytic domain were studied via atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. Our results revealed that, class-I and class-II forms of atypical and typical D2R antagonists follow different pathways in the inhibition of the D2Rs.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Biophysics , School of Medicine, Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey.
authors.forename: Ramin Ekhteiari
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Salmas
authors.affiliation: b Department of Chemistry , Istanbul Technical University , Istanbul , Turkey.
authors.forename: Mine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yurtsever
authors.affiliation: a Department of Biophysics , School of Medicine, Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey.
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Durdagi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D065127:Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000737:chemistry*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; C581293:DRD2 protein, human; D065127:Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonists; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2
keywords: GPCRs; docking; dopamine; dopamine D2 receptor (D2R); molecular dynamics; typical and atypical anti-psychotics