Dutta Soumajit, Shukla Diwakar
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801.
Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801.
bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 14:2023.09.29.560261. doi: 10.1101/2023.09.29.560261.
New psychoactive substances (NPS) targeting cannabinoid receptor 1 pose a significant threat to society as recreational abusive drugs that have pronounced physiological side effects. These greater adverse effects compared to classical cannabinoids have been linked to the higher downstream -arrestin signaling. Thus, understanding the mechanism of differential signaling will reveal important structure-activity relationship essential for identifying and potentially regulating NPS molecules. In this study, we simulate the slow (un)binding process of NPS MDMB-Fubinaca and classical cannabinoid HU-210 from CB using multi-ensemble simulation to decipher the effects of ligand binding dynamics on downstream signaling. The transition-based reweighing method is used for the estimation of transition rates and underlying thermodynamics of (un)binding processes of ligands with nanomolar affinities. Our analyses reveal major interaction differences with transmembrane TM7 between NPS and classical cannabinoids. A variational autoencoder-based approach, neural relational inference (NRI), is applied to assess the allosteric effects on intracellular regions attributable to variations in binding pocket interactions. NRI analysis indicate a heightened level of allosteric control of NPxxY motif for NPS-bound receptors, which contributes to the higher probability of formation of a crucial triad interaction (Y-Y-T) necessary for stronger -arrestin signaling. Hence, in this work, MD simulation, data-driven statistical methods, and deep learning point out the structural basis for the heightened physiological side effects associated with NPS, contributing to efforts aimed at mitigating their public health impact.
靶向大麻素受体1的新型精神活性物质(NPS)作为具有明显生理副作用的消遣性滥用药物,对社会构成了重大威胁。与经典大麻素相比,这些更大的不良反应与更高的下游β-抑制蛋白信号传导有关。因此,了解差异信号传导机制将揭示识别和潜在调控NPS分子所必需的重要构效关系。在本研究中,我们使用多系综模拟来模拟NPS MDMB-富马酸卡西酮和经典大麻素HU-210从大麻素受体(CB)的缓慢(解)结合过程,以破译配体结合动力学对下游信号传导的影响。基于过渡的重加权方法用于估计具有纳摩尔亲和力的配体(解)结合过程的过渡速率和潜在热力学。我们的分析揭示了NPS与经典大麻素之间与跨膜TM7的主要相互作用差异。一种基于变分自编码器的方法,即神经关系推理(NRI),被应用于评估由于结合口袋相互作用变化而对细胞内区域产生的变构效应。NRI分析表明,NPS结合受体的NPxxY基序的变构控制水平升高,这有助于形成更强的β-抑制蛋白信号传导所需的关键三联体相互作用(Y-Y-T)的更高概率。因此,在这项工作中,分子动力学模拟、数据驱动的统计方法和深度学习指出了与NPS相关的生理副作用增强的结构基础,有助于减轻其对公共卫生影响的努力。