Kufareva Irina
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2016 Oct;30:27-37. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2016.07.006. Epub 2016 Jul 25.
Chemokines are small secreted proteins that direct cell migration in development, immunity, inflammation, and cancer. They do so by binding and activating specific G protein coupled receptors on the surface of migrating cells. Despite the importance of receptor:chemokine interactions, their structural basis remained unclear for a long time. In 2015, the first atomic resolution insights were obtained with the publication of X-ray structures for two distantly related receptors bound to chemokines. In conjunction with experiment-guided molecular modeling, the structures suggest a conserved receptor:chemokine complex architecture, while highlighting the diverse details and functional roles of individual interaction epitopes. Novel findings promote the development and detailed structural interpretation of the canonical two-site hypothesis of receptor:chemokine recognition, and suggest new avenues for pharmacological modulation of chemokine receptors.
趋化因子是一类分泌型小蛋白,在发育、免疫、炎症和癌症过程中指导细胞迁移。它们通过结合并激活迁移细胞表面的特定G蛋白偶联受体来实现这一功能。尽管受体与趋化因子的相互作用非常重要,但其结构基础长期以来一直不清楚。2015年,随着两种远亲受体与趋化因子结合的X射线结构的发表,首次获得了原子分辨率的见解。结合实验指导的分子建模,这些结构揭示了保守的受体-趋化因子复合物结构,同时突出了各个相互作用表位的不同细节和功能作用。新发现推动了受体-趋化因子识别的经典双位点假说的发展和详细结构解释,并为趋化因子受体的药理调节提供了新途径。