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- Pharmacology at Your Fingertips: Terry’s Corner Launches
Yamina’s Corner delivers GPCR consulting that cuts through the noise, designing assay cascades, setting GPCR partner Celtarys Research has validated a TR-FRET assay for cannabinoid receptor ligands using their Read The Full Article GPCR Publication Highlights Chemokine–GPCR Selectivity Unveiled Sequence- and Distinct Ligand Activation in NMBR Simulations show how two ligands differently activate class A GPCR GPCR Team Join Our Newsletter!
- From Technician to Trailblazer: How Sokhom Pin Designed His Own PhD Program While Working in Industry
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- Building Backwards: Why Top-Down Models Could Revolutionize Pain Research
"I'm particularly interested in model development... seeing if we can bring preclinical models much closer This allows him to see how inflammation, cognition, and pain circuits overlap , and how GPCRs might serve And it challenges the GPCR community to use its tools not just to explain, but to intervene. the case for building pain research from the clinic down, not the bench up. ________ Keyword Cloud: GPCR podcast , pain modeling , GPCR online course , translational research , neuroimmune signaling .
- Fentanyl and Xylazine: Why Breathing Fails in Overdose
Watch Episode 172 The Bigger Picture: GPCR Science Meets Public Health At its core, Catherine Demery’ research is about receptors and signaling pathways—how mu-opioid and alpha-2 adrenergic receptors interact For scientists, this means rethinking how we study GPCR-mediated respiratory depression. For scientists, they sharpen our understanding of how different GPCR systems interact to produce respiratory In other words, this is GPCR science with immediate, life-or-death consequences.
- Unlocking Cell's Secrets: Spontaneous β-Arrestin-Membrane Preassociation Drives Receptor-Activation
The physical barrier this lipid bilayer creates is dynamic and interactive, becoming the foundation for many interactions involved in GPCR signaling6. activation, then regulate trigger receptor internalization via interaction with the adaptor protein Following dissociation from the receptor, the interaction of the extended finger loop with the lipid Molecular mechanism of GPCR-mediated arrestin activation.
- When Pain Becomes a Catalyst: How Personal Experience Redefined One Scientist’s Mission
Born in California and raised in Silicon Valley, his early interests were in finance and business. His interest in model development, in capturing the lived human experience through preclinical systems researchers needs to start from lived experience, not just literature. _________________ Keyword Cloud: GPCR research community , chronic pain , GPCR drug discovery , GPCR scientist network , pain neuroscience
- Maria’s Travel Blogs: ACSMEDI-EFMC Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers 2025
There were several sections, among them one specific for GPCRs. Sometimes when you’re in the field you forget the importance GPCRs holds in drug development as a whole Session 4 on Wednesday was dedicated to GPCRs. The talks given targeted both traditional GPCRs such as the serotoninergic receptor 5HT1A, but also newer
- Phenylalanine 193 in Extracellular Loop 2 of the β 2-Adrenergic Receptor Coordinates β-Arrestin ...
Phenylalanine 193 in Extracellular Loop 2 of the β 2-Adrenergic Receptor Coordinates β-Arrestin Interaction components of receptor-effector interactions remain incompletely described. intracellular interactions is poorly understood. We characterized the effects of extracellular loop mutations on agonist-promoted interactions of GPCRs with GPCRs.
- Knowing When to Walk, Knowing When to Run: Lessons from the Bench
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- Science Needs Rigor, But Also Joy
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- Job Opportunity Spotlight #1: Principal Scientist, In Vitro Pharmacology
GPCR ecosystem members! GPCR ecosystem. Mark: “Are there particular assay types of interest?” Top candidates will have a solid foundation in GPCR pharmacology as well as some experience in drug discovery GPCR
- Do You Believe AI Could Accelerate Drug Discovery?
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are major drug targets, yet their complex and dynamic structures By using machine learning, AF2 can accurately predict the 3D structures of GPCRs with atomic-level accuracy Moreover, advanced AI models like AlphaFold3, which can predict complex protein-molecule interactions development, such as the ability to tackle complex targets and accurately predict protein-molecule interactions Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3.
- A Model for the Signal Initiation Complex Between Arrestin-3 and the Src Family Kinase Fgr
regulate a wide range of signaling events, most notably when bound to active G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs Here, we focus on arrestin-3 interactions with Fgr kinase, a member of the Src family. We further demonstrate using NMR spectroscopy that a polyproline motif within arrestin-3 interacts directly To provide a framework for this interaction, we determined the crystal structure of the Fgr SH3 domain This model suggests that Fgr interacts with arrestin-3 at multiple sites and is consistent with the locations
- Melatonin MT 2 receptor is expressed and potentiates contraction in human airway smooth muscle
Numerous physiological effects of melatonin are mediated via its specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs melatonin receptors are expressed on airway smooth muscle; whether they regulate intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) and calcium concentrations ([Ca2+]i), which modulate airway smooth muscle tone; and whether they human and guinea pig airway smooth muscle and cultured human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cells by RT-PCR or the nonselective MT1/MT2 agonist ramelteon (10 µM) significantly inhibited forskolin-stimulated cAMP
- Coordinated transcriptomics and peptidomics of central nervous system identify neuropeptides and ...
Neuropeptides and their specific receptors (primarily G protein-coupled receptors, GPCRs) regulate multiple A total of 41 neuropeptide GPCR genes belonging to three classes were also identified. These GPCRs and their probable ligands were predicted. expression patterns of these 98 genes in various larval tissues were evaluated using quantitative real-time PCR to determine physiological functions and pharmacological characterization of neuropeptides and their GPCRs
- Beyond Clearance: The Strategic Power of Irreversible Drug Binding
When a drug outlives its exposure , toxic interactions can be just as persistent as therapeutic ones. Such interactions can disrupt metabolic detoxification and lead to delayed, systemic toxicity. Irreversible binding can turn enzyme interactions into make-or-break kinetic events. Kenakin with your own enzyme or GPCR interaction puzzles. If you’re not designing with persistent enzyme interactions in mind, you’re building risk into your molecule
- Integration and Spatial Organization of Signaling by G Protein-Coupled Receptor Homo- and ...
The G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of membrane receptors, with nearly 800 The recognition that GPCRs may physically interact with each other has led to the hypothesis that their Furthermore, the formation of GPCRs higher order oligomers provides the structural basis for organizing
- Opioid Receptors and Protonation-Coupled Binding of Opioid Drugs
Opioid receptors are G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) part of cell signaling paths of direct interest typically have a protonated amino group that contributes to receptor binding, and the functioning of GPCRs perspective of the usefulness of computational studies to evaluate protonation-coupled opioid-receptor interactions
- In Vitro and In Silico Characterization of Kurarinone as a Dopamine D 1A Receptor Antagonist and ...
Alterations in the expression and/or activity of brain G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) such as dopamine Since studies have indicated that flavonoids can target brain GPCRs and provide neuroprotection via inhibition Functional GPCR assays unfolded the compound's antagonist behavior on D1R (IC50 42.1 ± 0.35 μM) and agonist Molecular docking displayed low binding energies during the intermolecular interactions of kurarinone
- The mouse cytomegalovirus G protein-coupled receptor homolog, M33, coordinates key features of ...
all cytomegalovirus (CMV) genomes analysed to date is the presence of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR IMPORTANCE G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) act as cell surface molecular "switches" which regulate All cytomegalovirus (CMV) genomes analysed to date possess GPCR homologs with phylogenetic evidence for The mouse CMV (MCMV) GPCR homolog, designated M33, is important for cell-associated virus spread and The signalling repertoire of M33 is distinct from cellular GPCRs and little is known of the relevance
- Phospholipid Scrambling by G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Unexpectedly, Class A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large class of signaling proteins exemplified transbilayer lipid movement, conceptualized as the swiping of a credit card (lipid) through a card reader (GPCR Conformational changes that facilitate scrambling are distinct from those associated with GPCR signaling In this review, we discuss the physiological significance of GPCR scramblase activity and the modes of
- TLR4 biased small molecule modulators
Currently, attention was mainly paid to biased signaling modulators targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs The biased signaling modulation of non-GPCR receptors has yet to be exploited. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) is one such non-GPCR receptor, which involves MyD88-dependent and TRIF-dependent modulators of TLR4 would provide insight for the future development of biased modulators for other non-GPCR
- Neuronal Gα subunits required for the control of response to polystyrene nanoparticles in the ...
this study was to identify Gα proteins mediating function of neuronal G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs Some neuronal GPCRs (such as GTR-1, DCAR-1, DOP-2, NPR-8, NPR-12, NPR-9, and DAF-37) functioned upstream of GOA-1, some neuronal GPCRs (such as DCAR-1, DOP-2, NPR-9, NPR-8, and DAF-37) functioned upstream of GSA-1, and some neuronal GPCRs (such as DOP-2, NPR-8, DAF-37, and DCAR-1) functioned upstream of GPA Our results provide clues for understanding the important function of GPCRs-Gα signaling cascade in the
- Chemokine receptor-targeted drug discovery: progress and challenges
ligand-binding and signaling patterns, by modulating ligand binding, as well as G-protein coupling or interaction Further difficulties arise from the existence of cross-reactivity with other GPCRs and differences in of chemokine receptors which are regulated by globular protein ligands, unlike most of the class A GPCRs These larger interfaces represent the typical protein-protein interactions which are difficult to modulate . 2009; Wang and Norcross 2008); and are also too small to be engaged by antibodies, which can only interact
- Precise druggability of the PTH type 1 receptor
Class B G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are notoriously difficult to target by small molecules because Using the parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTHR) as a prototypic class B GPCR target, and a combination precise druggable sites and identify allosteric modulators of PTHR signaling that could be extended to GPCRs
- A Chemical Biology Toolbox Targeting the Intracellular Binding Site of CCR9: Fluorescent Ligands ...
allosteric binding site (IABS) has recently been identified at several G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs To chemically induce CCR9 degradation, we then developed the first PROTAC targeting the IABS of GPCRs our CCR9-PROTAC is able to reduce CCR9 levels, thereby offering an unprecedented approach to modulate GPCR
- The sixth transmembrane region of a pheromone G-protein coupled receptor, Map3, is implicated in ...
molecular recognition of two peptidyl mating pheromones by their corresponding G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs Here, we investigated the stringency of the two GPCRs, Mam2 and Map3, for their respective pheromones First, we switched GPCRs between S. pombe and the closely related species Schizosaccharomyces octosporus Thus, the differences in these two GPCRs might reflect the significantly distinct stringency/flexibility
- Prostaglandin signaling in ciliogenesis and development
Many G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including EP4 are localized in cilia for modulating cAMP signaling
- Disentangling bias between G q, GRK2, and arrestin3 recruitment to the M 3 muscarinic acetylcholine
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) transmit extracellular signals to the inside by activation of intracellular In order to avoid interference between these interactions, we studied GRK2 binding in the presence of measured substantial differences in the agonist efficacies to induce M3R-arrestin3 versus M3R-GRK2 interaction However, the rank order of the agonists for G protein- and GRK2-M3R interaction was the same, suggesting
- Harnessing Deep Mutational Scanning for Enhanced Drug Discovery
residues spans from the extracellular surface to the transmembrane area, linking with canonical class A GPCR activation motifs to initiate proton-sensing GPCRs. By examining how mutations in the target protein affect its interaction with the drug, researchers can











