Searching the GPCR heterodimer network (GPCR-hetnet) database for information to deduce the receptor–receptor interface and its role in the integration of receptor heterodimer functions
Brito, I., Narvaez, M., Savelli, D., Shumilov, K., Di Palma, M., Sartini, S., ? Borroto-Escuela, D. O. (2018). Searching the GPCR Heterodimer Network (GPCR-hetnet) Database for Information to Deduce the Receptor?Receptor Interface and Its Role in the Integration of Receptor Heterodimer Functions. Neuromethods, 283?298. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-8576-0_18
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018. The G protein-coupled receptor heterocomplex network database (GPCR-hetnet) is a database designed to store information on GPCR heteroreceptor complexes and their allosteric receptor–receptor interactions. It is an expert-authored and peer-reviewed, curated collection of well-documented GPCR–GPCR interactions that span the gamut from classical GPCR–GPCR interactions to more complex receptor–receptor interactions (GPCR-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase and GPCR-ionotropic receptor/ligand gated ion channel). Although GPCR-hetnet contains interactions among GPCR from several different species, the curators have initially focused on receptor–receptor interactions in humans. Currently (August 2017) GPCR-hetnet contains information on 250 receptors (192 GPCR, 52 RTK, and 6 ionotropic receptors) and >1023 interactions. The GPCR-hetnet provides four searchable datasets: the hetnet, the non-hetnet, the rtknet, and the ionnet. Other supporting datasets include information about receptors that are present in GPCR-hetnet such as literature citations. This chapter describes in a basic protocol how to use, navigate, and browse through the GPCR-hetnet database to identify the clusters in which a receptor protomer of interest is involved, while further applicability are also described and introduced.