Drug-induced diabetes type 2: In silico study involving class B GPCRs

PLoS One. 2019 Jan 16;14(1):e0208892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208892. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

A disturbance of glucose homeostasis leading to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the severe side effects that may occur during a prolonged use of many drugs currently available on the market. In this manuscript we describe the most common cases of drug-induced T2DM, discuss available pharmacotherapies and propose new ones. Among various pharmacotherapies of T2DM, incretin therapies have recently focused attention due to the newly determined crystal structure of incretin hormone receptor GLP1R. Incretin hormone receptors: GLP1R and GIPR together with the glucagon receptor GCGR regulate food intake and insulin and glucose secretion. Our study showed that incretin hormone receptors, named also gut hormone receptors as they are expressed in the gastrointestinal tract, could potentially act as unintended targets (off-targets) for orally administrated drugs. Such off-target interactions, depending on their effect on the receptor (stimulation or inhibition), could be beneficial, like in the case of incretin mimetics, or unwanted if they cause, e.g., decreased insulin secretion. In this in silico study we examined which well-known pharmaceuticals could potentially interact with gut hormone receptors in the off-target way. We observed that drugs with the strongest binding affinity for gut hormone receptors were also reported in the medical information resources as the least disturbing the glucose homeostasis among all drugs in their class. We suggested that those strongly binding molecules could potentially stimulate GIPR and GLP1R and/or inhibit GCGR which could lead to increased insulin secretion and decreased hepatic glucose production. Such positive effect on the glucose homeostasis could compensate for other, adverse effects of pharmacotherapy which lead to drug-induced T2DM. In addition, we also described several top hits as potential substitutes of peptidic incretin mimetics which were discovered in the drug repositioning screen using gut hormone receptors structures against the ZINC15 compounds subset.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / chemically induced*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / metabolism*
  • Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide / chemistry
  • Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide / metabolism
  • Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor / chemistry
  • Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone / chemistry
  • Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone / metabolism
  • Receptors, Glucagon / chemistry
  • Receptors, Glucagon / metabolism

Substances

  • Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor
  • Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone
  • Receptors, Glucagon
  • Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide
  • gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor

Grants and funding

DL acknowledges National Science Centre in Poland (https://www.ncn.gov.pl) for financing (Grant No. DEC-2012/07/D/NZ1/04244) and Faculty of Chemistry (http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl), Biological and Chemical Research Centre (http://cnbch.uw.edu.pl) of University of Warsaw for providing the infrastructure. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.