Summary
The electrostatic properties of adenosine-based agonists and xanthine-based antagonists for the adenosine A1 receptor were used to assess various proposals for their relative orientation in the unknown binding site. The electrostatic properties were calculated from distributed multipole representations of SCF wavefunctions. A range of methods of assessing the electrostatic similarity of the ligands were used in the comparison. One of the methods, comparing the sign of the potential around the two molecules, gave inconclusive results. The other approaches, however, provided a mutually complementary and consistent picture of the electrostatic similarity and dissimilarity of the molecules in the three proposed relative orientations. This was significantly different from the results obtained previously with MOPAC AM1 point charges. In the standard model overlay, where the aromatic nitrogen atoms of both agonists and antagonists are in the same position relative to the binding site, the electrostatic potentials are so dissimilar that binding to the same receptor site is highly unlikely. Overlaying the N6-region of adenosine with that near C8 of theophylline (the N6-C8 model) produces the greatest similarity in electrostatic properties for these ligands. However, N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA) and 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX) show greater electrostatic similarity when the aromatic rings are superimposed according to the flipped model, in which the xanthine ring is rotated around its horizontal axis. This difference is mainly attributed to the change in conformation of N6-substituted adenosines and could result in a different orientation for theophylline and DPCPX within the receptor binding site. However, it is more likely that DPCPX also binds according to the N6-C8 model, as this model gives the best steric overlay and would be favoured by the lipophilic forces, provided that the binding site residues could accommodate the different electrostatic properties in the N6/N7-region. Finally, we have shown that Distributed Multipole Analysis (DMA) offers a new, feasible tool for the medicinal chemist, because it provides the use of reliable electrostatic models to determine plausible relative binding orientations.
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Abbreviations
- DMA:
-
distributed multipole analysis
- SCF:
-
self-consistent field
- CPA:
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N6-cyclopentyladenosine
- DPCPX:
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1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine
- R-PIA:
-
R-1-phenyl-2-propyladenosine
- S-PIA:
-
S-1-phenyl-2-propyladenosine
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van der Wenden, E.M., Price, S.L., Apaya, R.P. et al. Relative binding orientations of adenosine A1 receptor ligands — A test case for Distributed Multipole Analysis in medicinal chemistry. J Computer-Aided Mol Des 9, 44–54 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00117277
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