GPCRdb in 2018: adding GPCR structure models and ligands

Gáspár Pándy-Szekeres, Christian Munk, Tsonko M Tsonkov, Stefan Mordalski, Kasper Harpsøe, Alexander S Hauser, Andrzej J Bojarski, David E Gloriam

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Abstract

G protein-coupled receptors are the most abundant mediators of both human signalling processes and therapeutic effects. Herein, we report GPCRome-wide homology models of unprecedented quality, and roughly 150 000 GPCR ligands with data on biological activities and commercial availability. Based on the strategy of 'Less model - more Xtal', each model exploits both a main template and alternative local templates. This achieved higher similarity to new structures than any of the existing resources, and refined crystal structures with missing or distorted regions. Models are provided for inactive, intermediate and active states-except for classes C and F that so far only have inactive templates. The ligand database has separate browsers for: (i) target selection by receptor, family or class, (ii) ligand filtering based on cross-experiment activities (min, max and mean) or chemical properties, (iii) ligand source data and (iv) commercial availability. SMILES structures and activity spreadsheets can be downloaded for further processing. Furthermore, three recent landmark publications on GPCR drugs, G protein selectivity and genetic variants have been accompanied with resources that now let readers view and analyse the findings themselves in GPCRdb. Altogether, this update will enable scientific investigation for the wider GPCR community. GPCRdb is available at http://www.gpcrdb.org.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbergkx1109
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume46
Issue numberD1
Number of pages7
ISSN0305-1048
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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