| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a method for constructing a structural model of a complex that a G protein-coupled protein receptor forms with a ligand capable of binding the G protein-coupled receptor and a three-dimensional structural model of an activated intermediate in the structural model of the complex. The present invention also provides a method for identifying, screening for, searching for, evaluating, or designing a ligand capable of binding a GPCR by using the three-dimensional model. In one specific method provided by the present invention, a three-dimensional structural model of a photoactivated intermediate of rhodopsin is constructed by using a molecule modeling software and by using the three-dimensional structural coordinate of the crystal structure of rhodopsin in such a manner that amino acid residues highly conserved among GPCRs are taken into consideration. The three-dimensional stractural model of the photoactivated intermediate of rhodopsin is subsequently used to construct structural models of activated intermediates of other GPCRs. The present invention further provides a method for identifying, screening for, searching for, evaluating, or designing a ligand that binds a GPCR to act as an agonist or an antagonist. This method employs the three-dimensional structural model constructed by the above-described method. |
