Liu Xin, Kai Ming, Jin Lian, Wang Rui
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Road, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Sep 15;19(18):5387-91. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.07.121. Epub 2009 Jul 30.
The molecular docking of a series of endomorphin analog with the mu opioid receptor was performed. The successive molecular dynamics of several proposed ligand-receptor complexes inserted into the phospholipid bilayer were carried out to optimize the complex and explore the conformational changes. Meaningful differences of their binding modes were detected and the involvement of some essential residues in ligand binding was also identified. Our proposed ligand-receptor model is in good agreement with previous site-directed mutagenesis experiments.
