📰 GPCR Weekly News, March 20 to 26, 2023
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Below is your Classified GPCR News at a glance for March 20th to 26th, 2023.
GPCR Activation and Signaling
Targeting biased signaling by PAR1: Function and molecular mechanism of parmodulins.
The Wnt pathway protein Dvl1 targets Somatostatin receptor 2 for lysosome-dependent degradation.
Loss of biased signaling at a G protein-coupled receptor in overexpressed systems.
GPCR Binders, Drugs, and more
A snake toxin as a theranostic agent for the type 2 vasopressin receptor
Small-Molecule Fluorescent Ligands for the CXCR4 Chemokine Receptor.
GPCRs in Cardiology, Endocrinology, and Taste
GPCRs in Oncology and Immunology
Purinergic GPCR-integrin interactions drive pancreatic cancer cell invasion.
CCL5-producing migratory dendritic cells guide CCR5+ monocytes into the draining lymph nodes.
Methods & Updates in GPCR Research
Structural and Molecular Insights into GPCR Function
Physiological changes in bilayer thickness induced by cholesterol control GPCR rhodopsin function.
Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision.
New insights into GPCR coupling and dimerisation from cryo-EM structures.
Industry News
Domain Therapeutics was one of the 4 Biotech Trophy nominees at 2023 HealthTech awards.
The delisting dilemma: Why do so many biotechs face being kicked off the Nasdaq?.
Exscientia Business and Financial Update for the Full Year 2022.
Function Therapeutics has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR grant from NSF.
Call for GPCR Papers
GPCR Events, Meetings, and Webinars
NEW Webinar - Antiverse: Engineering the Future of Drug Discovery (March 30, 2023)
NEW FREE Workshop - Challenges in GPCR Drug Discovery (March 31, 2023)
SLAS 2023 Building Biology in 3D Symposium. (April 20 - 21, 2023)
SLAS Europe 2023 Conference and Exhibition. (May 22 - 26, 2023)
2nd LEAPS Meets Life Sciences Conference. (May 14 - 19, 2023)
The Illuminating the Understudied Druggable Proteome Conference. (June 4 - 8, 2023).
2023 Molecular Pharmacology (GRS) Seminar GRC. (June 10 - 11, 2023).
Training School on “Cell-based assays to study Adhesion GPCR function". (June 28 - 30, 2023)
FREE 11th Adrenoceptor Symposium: Adrenoceptors and GPCR Signalling (June 30 - July 1, 2023)
19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023. (July 2 - 7, 2023).
GPCR Jobs
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