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- How Breakthroughs Happen: Eric Trinquet on Innovation, Serendipity & GPCRs
lanthanide probes, the team realized they could tune these molecules to become exquisitely sensitive to pH changes : Endogenous GLP-1 internalization shown in beta cells 🚀 2025: Revvity launches pHSense A Day That Changed questions about constitutive activity, agonist-induced internalization, and cellular dynamics. 🔄 What Changed
- Decoding GPCR Function: The Role of Mutagenesis in Rational Drug Discovery
Mutagenesis involves deliberately altering the DNA sequence of a gene to study the resulting changes framework that combined mutagenesis and structural data to contextualise ligand-induced structural changes datasets, allowing researchers to determine the functional consequences of every possible amino acid change ligand-receptor interactions, mutagenesis fills crucial knowledge gaps by revealing how specific amino acid changes B., Chang, B., & Peisajovich, S. G. (2017).
- Understanding Orthosteric Binding: The Key to Drug Action
. 📚 Whether you're new to pharmacology or brushing up on basics, this lesson will change how you think The receptor may change shape upon binding, affecting how the drug interacts and how effective it will
- Chemical Drug Matter : Rethinking the Molecules We Choose to Develop In Drug Discovery
Allostery and Biased Signaling Change the Game The most profound change in GPCR drug discovery is our discovery teams, pharmacologists refining core skills, and R&D leads who need clear reasoning in a rapidly changing
- Glyco-sulfo hotspots in the chemokine receptor system
extracellular loops and transmembrane domains of the receptor (CRS2), which will trigger conformational changes N-terminal region of chemokine receptors is indispensable for chemokine binding, where the negatively charged residues, as a consequence of the negatively charged aminoacids and post-translational modifications (PTMs), contribute to the high affinity binding to the positively charged groove on the chemokine. N-terminal PTMs include sulfation and glycosylation which contribute to the overall negative charge of
- Orthosteric vs. Allosteric Interactions: The Silent Decider of Safety and Success
Allosteric sites operate differently: ligands bind elsewhere, transmit energy changes, and shift the How Conformational Changes Drive Affinity and Efficacy A key takeaway from this session: affinity and That’s where Terry’s Corner changes the game.
- Targeting GPCRs in the CNS: Advances in Drug Discovery Strategies
neuromodulator, neurotransmitter, etc.), binds to the extracellular binding site of the GPCR, the protein changes the β2 adrenergic receptor (β2AR; PDB ID: 2RH1); (B) A ligand-bound GPCR undergoes a conformational change The conformation change induced by the agonist may not always lead to the same intracellular signaling
- GPCR Collaboration: From Models to Medicine
That perspective changed the moment he entered GPCR research . That candor changes the tone of collaboration . Pharmacologists know they aren’t being oversold. It also allows Carlsson to stay plugged into the fast-changing needs of biotech while keeping his academic
- Assay Sensitivity: The Hidden Lever Driving GPCR Drug Discovery
is like adjusting the brightness on a microscope—set it right, and hidden details jump into focus, changing Can changing receptor density predict how your drug will behave across sensitive versus less sensitive That’s where Terry’s Corner changes the game.
- How Collaboration Drives GPCR Discoveries
They start with a chance email, an unexpected visitor at the door, or the moment a team realizes the That changed when JB’s team walked in with a different lens.
- From Pipettes to Platforms: The Evolution of GPCR Research
What Changed After This : High-throughput capabilities meant researchers could map GPCR signaling more But the heart of the field hasn’t changed.
- The Chemistry of Confidence: Aha Moments That Shape Scientific Careers
“The first time I wore my lucky cactus shirt to a major meeting... and it led to a game-changing collaboration
- The Hidden Burn: How Internal Misalignment Drains Your Biotech’s Runway
The date never changed. But the scope moved. If nothing changes after it, it was just a lab update. shared, milestone-driven roadmap tied to strategic decisions, not just scientific deliverables, momentum changes
- Why “Displacement” Misleads You: Allosteric Binding Demystified
Session, You’ll Gain: ✅ A clear explanation of why allosteric modulators don’t displace ligands—they change You’re no longer tracking the same protein species—and that changes everything.
- How System-Level GPCR Thinking Prevents Discovery Failures
Johannes Broichhagen Reliable imaging tools change how researchers see receptor behavior. specificity, relevance, and assay confidence Read the full HCS feature ➤ Why System-Level GPCR Thinking Changes
- 📰 GPCR Weekly News, April 29 to May 5, 2024
announcements in today’s episode, so join us in this celebration and be the first to know about all the changes
- Inverse Agonists, Lymphatic Fixes & β-arrestin Tricks
This week brings sharp new insights into how minor changes in ligand structure can flip GPCR function
- Transformative GPCR Insights: Unleash New Horizons in Science | Sep 9 - 15, 2024
There are only 5 spots left for our upcoming courses, so seize the chance to learn from the best in announced the winners of its Transforming Cancer Therapeutics grant, which focuses on developing life-changing
- When Pain Becomes a Catalyst: How Personal Experience Redefined One Scientist’s Mission
But everything changed when his recurring pain — and the rigid protocols around opioid prescription —
- β-arrestin1 and 2 exhibit distinct phosphorylation-dependent conformations when coupling to the...
associate with the active parathyroid hormone 1 receptor (PTH1R) in different complex configurations ("hanging Moreover, we assess β-arrestin conformational changes that are induced specifically by proximal and distal Here, we show differences between conformational changes that are induced by P-R* or R* receptor states
- G protein coupling and activation of the metabotropic GABAB heterodimer
Cryo-electron microscopy studies revealed a drastic conformational change upon activation and a unique metadynamics computations to predict the mechanism by which the inactive GP induces conformational changes
- Fentanyl and Xylazine: Why Breathing Fails in Overdose
the Danger Perhaps the most unsettling part of Catherine’s work is the disconnect between breathing changes That is why Catherine’s work matters: it shows in mechanistic detail how fentanyl and xylazine change
- Transmembrane domains of GPCR dimers – a novel hot spot for drug discovery
al. highlight the importance of GPCR dimers in drug discovery referring to important conformational changes But what are the conformation changes that drive GPCR dimerization? The interaction between two receptors in a dimer involves a conformational change in the transmembrane Interestingly, the amplitude of the conformational changes due to ligand binding is limited at these
- Gαs and Gαq/11 protein coupling bias of two AVPR2 mutants (R68W and V162A) that cause nephrogenic di
characterization of biased receptors may give insights into the relationship between the conformational change protein coupling bias of mutant AVPR2s may broaden our understanding of the relationship between the changed
- 📰 GPCR Weekly News, November 13 to 19, 2023
cannabidiol, on the cannabinoid CB2 receptor GPCRs in Cardiology, Endocrinology, and Taste Transcriptomic changes Hartley, was at the PEGS Europe Novartis pays Legend $100M upfront to give solid tumor CAR-T the T-Charge
- How Understanding Intracellular Drug Access Can Transform Your GPCR Drug Discovery Program
Terry Kenakin delivers a game-changing framework for teams grappling with the gap between in vitro potency His latest lecture is a guide to understanding why intracellular drug access changes everything—from
- 📰 GPCR Weekly News, March 20 to 26, 2023
Structural and Molecular Insights into GPCR Function Physiological changes in bilayer thickness induced Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision. Sosei Heptares Confirms Changes to its Board and Executive Management Team at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
- 📰 GPCR Weekly News, February 12 to 18, 2024
If you missed the chance to register, don't worry! multifaceted role of the CXC chemokines and receptors signaling axes in ALS pathophysiology Common changes
- Dynamic recognition of naloxone, morphine and endomorphin1 in the same pocket of µ-opioid receptors
severe pain by activating the μ-opioid receptor (MOR), whereas naloxone, with only slight structural changes The endogenous peptide ligand endomorphin-1 (EM-1) underwent almost no significant conformational changes
- Enhanced membrane binding of oncogenic G protein αqQ209L confers resistance to inhibitor YM-254890
Additionally, pull-down experiments demonstrated that YM promotes similar conformational changes in both Together, these results indicate that changes in membrane binding impact the ability of YM to inhibit



















