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Suqin Ci1, Tianrui Ren, Zhiguo Su.
Abstract
The three-dimensional structure of the GABA A receptor that included the ligand/agonist binding site was constructed and validated by using molecular modeling technology. Moreover, the putative binding-mode of GABA and diazepam with GABAA receptor were investigated by means of docking studies. Based on an rmsd-tolerance of 1.0 angstroms, the docking of GABA to alpha1/beta2 interface resulted in three multi-member conformational clusters and model 2 was supported by homologous sequence alignment data and experimental evidence. On the other hand, the docking of diazepam to alpha1/gamma2 interface revealed five multi-member conformational clusters in the binding site and model 1 seemed to represent the correct orientation of diazepam in the binding site.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 17805947 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-007-9109-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Protein J ISSN: 1572-3887 Impact factor: 2.371