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タイトル | An original potentiating mechanism revealed by the cryo-EM structures of the human α7 nicotinic receptor in complex with nanobodies. |
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ジャーナル・号・ページ | Nat Commun, Vol. 14, Issue 1, Page 5964, Year 2023 |
掲載日 | 2023年9月25日 |
著者 | Marie S Prevost / Nathalie Barilone / Gabrielle Dejean de la Bâtie / Stéphanie Pons / Gabriel Ayme / Patrick England / Marc Gielen / François Bontems / Gérard Pehau-Arnaudet / Uwe Maskos / Pierre Lafaye / Pierre-Jean Corringer / |
PubMed 要旨 | The human α7 nicotinic receptor is a pentameric channel mediating cellular and neuronal communication. It has attracted considerable interest in designing ligands for the treatment of neurological ...The human α7 nicotinic receptor is a pentameric channel mediating cellular and neuronal communication. It has attracted considerable interest in designing ligands for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. To develop a novel class of α7 ligands, we recently generated two nanobodies named E3 and C4, acting as positive allosteric modulator and silent allosteric ligand, respectively. Here, we solved the cryo-electron microscopy structures of the nanobody-receptor complexes. E3 and C4 bind to a common epitope involving two subunits at the apex of the receptor. They form by themselves a symmetric pentameric assembly that extends the extracellular domain. Unlike C4, the binding of E3 drives an agonist-bound conformation of the extracellular domain in the absence of an orthosteric agonist, and mutational analysis shows a key contribution of an N-linked sugar moiety in mediating E3 potentiation. The nanobody E3, by remotely controlling the global allosteric conformation of the receptor, implements an original mechanism of regulation that opens new avenues for drug design. |
リンク | Nat Commun / PubMed:37749098 / PubMed Central |
手法 | EM (単粒子) |
解像度 | 2.3 - 4.4 Å |
構造データ | EMDB-16513, PDB-8c9x: EMDB-16534, PDB-8cau: EMDB-16598, PDB-8ce4: EMDB-16665, PDB-8ci1: EMDB-16666, PDB-8ci2: |
化合物 | ChemComp-NAG: ChemComp-NCT: |
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キーワード | MEMBRANE PROTEIN / ion channel nanobody Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor |