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1、Articlepubs.acs.org/biochemistryTermsofUseSimulationsofBiasedAgonistsintheβ2AdrenergicReceptorwithAcceleratedMolecularDynamics,§§△#IrinaG.Tikhonova,*BalajiSelvam,AnthonyIvetac,JeffWereszczynski,△,▽,□,○andJ.AndrewMcCammon§MolecularTherapeutics,SchoolofPharmacy,MedicalBiologyCentre,Queen’sUni
2、versity,BelfastBT97BL,NorthernIreland,UnitedKingdom△DepartmentofChemistryandBiochemistry,UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego,LaJolla,California92093-0365,UnitedStates#DepartmentofPhysics,IllinoisInstituteofTechnology,Chicago,Illinois60616-3893,UnitedStates▽CenterforTheoreticalBiologicalPhysic
3、s,UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego,LaJolla,California92093-0365,UnitedStates□HowardHughesMedicalInstitute,UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego,LaJolla,California92093-0365,UnitedStates○DepartmentofPharmacology,UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego,LaJolla,California92093-0365,UnitedStates*SSupporti
4、ngInformationABSTRACT:ThebiasedagonismoftheGprotein-coupledreceptors(GPCRs),whereinadditiontoatraditionalGprotein-signalingpathwayaGPCRpromotesintracellularsignalsthoughβ-arrestin,isanovelparadigminpharmacology.BiochemicalandbiophysicalstudieshavesuggestedthataGPCRformsadistinctensembleofc
5、onformationssignalingthroughtheGproteinandβ-arrestin.Herewereportonthedynamicsoftheβ2adrenergicreceptorboundtotheβ-arrestinandGprotein-biasedagonistsandtheemptyreceptortofurthercharacterizethereceptorconformationalchangescausedbybiasedagonists.Weuseconventionalandacceleratedmoleculardynami
6、cs(aMD)simulationstoexploretheconformationaltransitionsoftheGPCRfromtheactivestatetotheinactivestate.WefoundthataMDsimulationsenablemonitoringofthetransitionwithinthenanosecondtimescalewhilecapturingtheknownmicroscopiccharacteristicsoftheinactivestates,suchastheioniclock,theinwardpositiono
7、fF6.44,andwaterclusters.Distinctconformationalstatesareshowntobestabilizedbyeachbiasedagonist.Inparticular,insimulationsofthereceptorwiththeβ-arrestin-biasedagonistN-cyclopentylbutanepherine,weobserveadifferentpatternofmotionsinhelix7whencomparedtosimulationswi