Structural Analysis of Chemokine Receptor-Ligand Interactions

Marta Arimont, Shan-Liang Sun, Rob Leurs, Martine Smit, Iwan J.P. De Esch, C. de Graaf*

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Abstract

This review focuses on the construction and application of structural chemokine receptor models for the elucidation of molecular determinants of chemokine receptor modulation and the structure-based discovery and design of chemokine receptor ligands. A comparative analysis of ligand binding pockets in chemokine receptors is presented, including a detailed description of the CXCR4, CCR2, CCR5, CCR9, and US28 X-ray structures, and their implication for modeling molecular interactions of chemokine receptors with small-molecule ligands, peptide ligands, and large antibodies and chemokines. These studies demonstrate how the integration of new structural information on chemokine receptors with extensive structure-activity relationship and site-directed mutagenesis data facilitates the prediction of the structure of chemokine receptor-ligand complexes that have not been crystallized. Finally, a review of structure-based ligand discovery and design studies based on chemokine receptor crystal structures and homology models illustrates the possibilities and challenges to find novel ligands for chemokine receptors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4735-4779
Number of pages45
JournalJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume60
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jun 2017

Funding

FundersFunder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme641833

    Keywords

    • Journal Article

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