CNS disorders. Abstract. Despite G- protein- coupled receptors (GPCRs) being among the most fruitful targets for marketed drugs, intense discovery efforts for several GPCR subtypes have failed to deliver selective drug candidates.
Historically, drug discovery programmes for GPCR ligands have been dominated by efforts to develop agonists and antagonists that act at orthosteric sites for endogenous ligands. However, in recent years, there have been tremendous advances in the discovery of novel ligands for GPCRs that act at allosteric sites to regulate receptor function. These compounds provide high selectivity, novel modes of efficacy and may lead to novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of multiple psychiatric and neurological human disorders.
G- protein- coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of cell- surface receptors and play crucial roles in virtually every organ system (see ref. GPCRs are activated by a diverse range of ligands, including hormones, neurotransmitters, ions, odorants and photons of light, and couple to a wide range of signalling molecules and effector systems. GPCRs have been implicated in a multitude of human disorders and numerous diseases have been linked to mutations and polymorphisms in GPCRs. Thus, it is not surprising that GPCRs are the target of many therapeutic agents that are currently in use. It is estimated that nearly half of all modern drugs regulate GPCR activity in some way. However, despite the proven success of GPCRs as drug targets, useful ligands do not exist for the majority of GPCRs.
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GPCRs are encoded by more than 1,0. A number of important issues contribute to the difficulty of discovering small- molecule selective agonists or antagonists that act on the orthosteric site of some GPCRs. For instance, the orthosteric binding sites across members of a single GPCR subfamily for a particular endogenous ligand are often highly conserved, making it difficult to achieve high selectivity for specific GPCR subtypes. Furthermore, ligands at orthosteric sites for some GPCRs, such as peptide or protein receptors, have other physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties that are incompatible with scaffolds that are useful for small- molecule drug discovery. An alternative approach, which has proven highly successful for ligand- gated ion channels, is the development of selective allosteric modulators of the specific receptor subtypes.
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These small molecules do not bind to the orthosteric ligand binding site but instead act at an alternatively located binding site (allosteric site), which is distinct from the orthosteric site, to either potentiate or inhibit activation of the receptor by its natural ligand. Benzodiazepines are a classic example of positive allosteric modulators of γ- aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptors. Benzodiazepines provide an effective and safe approach to the treatment of anxiety and sleep disorders without inducing the potentially lethal effects of direct- acting GABA receptor agonists. Allosteric modulators of GABAA receptors include compounds with a range of activities, such as positive allosteric modulators (PAMs), which increase the response of the receptor to GABA, negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), which reduce receptor responsiveness, and neutral allosteric ligands, which bind to the allosteric site but have no effects on the responses to the orthosteric ligand. Although allosteric modulators are well established as research tools and therapeutic agents of ion channels, they have not been a traditional focus of drug discovery efforts for GPCRs.
However, in recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the discovery, optimization and clinical development of allosteric modulators of multiple GPCR subtypes. These include PAMs, NAMs and neutral ligands for each of the three major GPCR subfamilies, which offer novel modes of action over orthosteric ligands. These compounds are providing major advances in developing novel drugs, drug leads and research tools for GPCRs, and have potential utility for the treatment of multiple human disorders.
Recent efforts have focused on the development of novel strategies for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders, and several potential GPCR drug targets that have been intractable using traditional orthosteric ligand approaches have been identified. Modes of action and pharmacological properties. Allosteric modulators bind to GPCRs at sites that are topographically distinct from the orthosteric site, leading to a change in receptor conformation. As a consequence, the interactive properties of the GPCR, both with respect to orthosteric ligands and the cellular host environment, can be modified in either a positive or negative direction; in essence, a receptor occupied by an allosteric ligand can be viewed as a ‘novel’ receptor type, with unique behaviour. Allosteric GPCR modulators exhibit one or more of the following pharmacological properties (Fig. There are now a number of examples of allosteric GPCR modulators that exhibit one or more of these pharmacological properties. Table 1 provides a list of allosteric modulators of GPCRs that have been identified to date and that will be discussed here (see also refs 6,7).
Modes of action of allosteric modulators. Reported allosteric modulators of G- protein- coupled receptors. The diverse effects on receptor behaviour engendered by allosteric ligands can be described by equations based on various ternary complex mass- action models. Box 1). Although these models are extremely useful for conceptualizing different allosteric modulator effects under various conditions, it is generally difficult to fit such models to real experimental data. As an alternative, ‘operational models’ of allosterism have also been developed; these, combine both mechanistic and empirical parameters to facilitate quantification of experimentally- derived allosteric drug properties in a manner that can facilitate structure–activity studies (Box 2).
Box 1 Mass action receptor models of allosteric interaction. The simplest allosteric interaction occurs when a modulator has no effect on its own and regulates a single property of the orthosteric ligand, namely its affinity. In this situation, the pharmacological properties of the modulator at its target receptor are characterized by its affinity for the allosteric site, KB and a single cooperativity factor, commonly denoted by the symbol α, which quantifies the magnitude of the allosteric effect exerted between the two sites.
Values of α > 1 denote positive cooperativity, or allosteric potentiation, whereas values of α < 1 (but greater than 0) denote negative cooperativity, or allosteric inhibition/antagonism. Thus, α = 1. 0 means that the allosteric ligand can increase the affinity of an orthosteric ligand by a factor of 1. Interestingly, some allosteric modulators can posses an α value equal to 1, which means that they do not change the affinity of the orthosteric ligand at equilibrium; this property is referred to as neutral cooperativity. Neutral allosteric ligands can still bind to an allosteric site and, by simple competition, inhibit the actions of other allosteric modulators that bind to that same site.
However, there is no a priori reason why the conformational change that is mediated by an allosteric modulator cannot modify the signalling efficacy of the orthosteric ligand, in addition to exerting effects on affinity. If so, then one or more additional cooperativity factors (β, γ, δ, etc.) need to be introduced into the model of allosteric interaction to accommodate this effect on different states of the receptor. Box 2 Operational approaches to modelling allosterism. Equilibrium equations based on operational models of orthosteric drug–receptor interaction. A similar model has recently been developed for allosteric interactions.
KA and KB denote the equilibrium dissociation constants of an orthosteric ligand, A, and allosteric modulator, B, respectively at a receptor (R). The allosteric effect of the modulator on orthosteric ligand affinity, and vice versa, is described by the binding cooperativity factor, α.
The letter, S, denotes the stimulus imparted by a ligand- occupied receptor to the cell. The symbol, β, describes an activation cooperativity factor, which quantifies the allosteric effect of the modulator on the signalling efficacy of the orthosteric agonist. In the equilibrium solution to the model, an additional parameter, τ, is introduced as a measure of the direct agonism that each ligand can possess; this parameter is influenced by receptor density, system responsiveness and the intrinsic efficacy of the ligand itself. The remaining parameters are the maximum system response, Em, and the slope, n, of the function that links receptor occupancy to final observed response. Also shown is the application of the model to in- house data of the interaction between the allosteric agonist/modulator, LUF5.
R(−)- N6- (2- phenylisopropyl)adenosine (R- PIA), at the human A1adenosine receptor stably expressed in a recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cell line and quantified using an assay of phosphorylation of extracellular signal regulated kinases 1 /2 (p. ERK1/2). Using this approach, the four properties accounting for the pharmacological actions of the modulator (KB, α, β, τB ) can be derived. Operational models are thus useful in helping to understand the results of allosteric modulator screening programmes. Compounds that possess an allosteric mode of action can display a number of theoretical advantages over orthosteric ligands as potential therapeutic agents. For example, allosteric modulators that do not display any agonism are quiescent in the absence of endogenous orthosteric activity and only exert their effect in the presence of a released orthosteric agonist. Thus, such allosteric modulators have the potential to maintain activity dependence and both temporal and spatial aspects of endogenous physiological signalling.