📰 GPCR Weekly News, September 4 to 10, 2023

Good day readers! Welcome to our latest GPCR updates.

This week's highlights:

• Dr. Yamina Berchiche, Founder and Director of Dr. GPCR, was featured as Superluminal Medicines Launches to Drug Protein Conformations in a Flash.

• Our partner, Domain Therapeutics, will attend the SACHS 23rd annual biotech event in Europe.

• Dr. Gregory Tall and team's study on GPR114/ADGRG5, activated by tethered-peptide-agonist, a cleaved adhesion GPCR.

• Dr. Christopher Langmead and colleagues' work on the 5-HT2C receptor as a therapeutic target for substance use disorders.

Save these dates:

• September 22: Join us for the Dr. GPCR Symposium on ''GPCRs as Therapeutic Modalities' Share your project with a 1-minute abstract video with this form.
  

• November 2 - 4: The GPCR Retreat is approaching and we are thrilled to be sponsors! Submit poster abstracts here; short talks will be selected from Abstracts. Abstract submissions close on October 2, and final registration ends on September 21.

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Now, explore the Classified GPCR News from September 4th to 10th, 2023.

Adhesion GPCRs

• GPR114/ADGRG5 is activated by its tethered-peptide-agonist because it is a cleaved adhesion GPCR

• Latrophilin, an adhesion GPCR with galactose-binding lectin domain involved in the innate immune response of Tribolium castaneum

GPCR Activation and Signaling

• Biased allosteric activation of ketone body receptor HCAR2 suppresses inflammation

GPCR Binders, Drugs, and more

• Saturated Cannabinoids: Update on Synthesis Strategies and Biological Studies of These Emerging Cannabinoid Analogs

GPCRs in Neuroscience

• Serotonin signaling regulates actomyosin contractility during morphogenesis in evolutionarily divergent lineages

GPCRs in Oncology and Immunology

• [1,2,4]Triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidines as Tools to Investigate A3 Adenosine Receptors in Cancer Cell Lines

• Severity of neurological long-COVID symptoms correlates with increased level of autoantibodies targeting vasoregulatory and autonomic nervous system receptors

Methods & Updates in GPCR Research

• Multi-tissue transcriptomic and serum metabolomic assessment reveals systemic implications of acute ozone-induced stress response in male Wistar Kyoto rats

Reviews, GPCRs, and more

• Understanding class B GPCR agonist binding

Structural and Molecular Insights into GPCR Function

• Structure and Molecular Mechanism of Signaling for the Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Bound to Gs Protein and Exendin-P5 Biased Agonist

• Molecular and structural insights into the 5-HT2C receptor as a therapeutic target for substance use disorders

Industry News

• Crinetics’ Once-Daily Oral Paltusotine Achieved The Primary And All Secondary Endpoints In The Phase 3 Pathfndr-1 Study Evaluating Treatment Of Patients With Acromegaly

• Crinetics Announces September 2023 Inducement Grants

• Click Therapeutics teams up with addiction treatment maker Indivior to make digital therapeutics for substance use disorders

• Superluminal Medicines Launches to Drug Protein Conformations in a Flash

• Andrew Hopkins, Exscientia's CEO, Recognized in TIME Magazine's for Pioneering AI-Driven Drug Discovery

• Domain Therapeutics CEO Pascal Neuville to Discuss Game-Changing GPCR-Targeting Immunotherapies at Sachs Associates' Biotech Forum

• Celtarys Research and G-CLIPS join forces to revolutionize transmembrane proteins characterization in drug discovery

• Confo Therapeutics Appoints Stephen Dowd As Chief Business Officer

• Septerna Announces Novel GPCR-targeted Program Acquired by Vertex

Call for GPCR Papers

• opnMe GPCR Route 66+ project. Deadline September 27, 2023

GPCR Events, Meetings, and Webinars

• NEW September 21, 2023 | Breaking Through the Barriers: Unlocking the Future of Ion Channel Drug Discovery with Cryo-EM

• September 25 - 28, 2023 | Discovery On Target

• September 27 - 28, 2023 | Training Seminar "The Renaissance in GPCRs as Drug Targets: Allosteric Function and Biased Signaling" at the DOT

• October 3, 2023 | FREE Seminar: Changing paradigm on Therapeutics targeting Membrane Proteins: from antigen production to candidate validation

• October 25 - 27, 2023 | 3rd Annual Meeting IRN I-GPCRNet

• November 2 - 4, 2023 | GPCR Retreat

• November 15 - 17, 2023 | MPGPCR Conference

• November 20 - 23, 2023 | ASCEPT Annual Scientific Meeting

• February 3 - 7, 2024 | SLAS2024 International Conference and Exhibition

• March 23 - 24, 2024 | Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating Seminar

• March 24 - 29, 2024 | Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating Conference

• April 5 - 10, 2024 | AACR Annual Meeting

• May 13 - 17, 2024 | 20th Annual PEGS Boston Summit

• May 16 - 19, 2024 | ASPET 2024

• May 27 - 29, 2024 | SLAS Europe 2024 Conference and Exhibition

• June 2 - 4, 2024 | Chemotactic Cytokines

GPCR Jobs

• NEW Senior Research Associate, In Vitro Pharmacology - Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

• NEW Postdoc In Cell Biology Of Protein Trafficking

• NEW Postdoctoral Fellow

• Researcher / Senior Researcher in Structural Biology

• Research Specialist

• Science Research Writer

• Postdoctoral Fellow

• Research Laboratory Specialist Associate

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