Cooperative cobinding of synthetic and natural ligands to the nuclear receptor PPARγ.

Crystal structures of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) have revealed overlapping binding modes for synthetic and natural/endogenous ligands, indicating competition for the orthosteric pocket. Here we show that cobinding of a synthetic ligand to the orthosteric pocket can push natural and endogenous PPARγ ligands (fatty acids) out of the orthosteric ...
pocket towards an alternate ligand-binding site near the functionally important omega (Ω)-loop. X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, and mutagenesis coupled to quantitative biochemical functional and cellular assays reveal that synthetic ligand and fatty acid cobinding can form a 'ligand link' to the Ω-loop and synergistically affect the structure and function of PPARγ. These findings contribute to a growing body of evidence indicating ligand binding to nuclear receptors can be more complex than the classical one-for-one orthosteric exchange of a natural or endogenous ligand with a synthetic ligand.
Mesh Terms:
Binding Sites, Crystallography, X-Ray, Fatty Acids, Humans, Ligands, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Molecular Structure, Oxazoles, PPAR gamma, Protein Binding, Protein Conformation, Thiazoles, Thiazolidinediones
Elife
Date: Dec. 21, 2017
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