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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2009

Progress in elucidating the structural and dynamic character of G Protein-Coupled Receptor oligomers for use in drug discovery.

A Bortolato, J C Mobarec, D Provasi, M Filizola

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Allosteric interactions across native adenosine-A3 receptor homodimers: quantification using single-cell ligand-binding kinetics.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2011
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

A BortolatoDepartment of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA.
J C Mobarec
D Provasi
M Filizola

Funding

OPIOID RECEPTOR OLIGOMERIZATION: PREDICTION & VALIDATIONR01DA020032 · NIDA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI FILIZOLA, MARTA · 2006 to 2010
$1.5M
INFORMATICS OF GPCR DIMERS IN DRUG ABUSE MECHANISMSR21DA017976 · NIDA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI FILIZOLA, MARTA · 2005 to 2009
$1.3M
Structural Aspects of Oligomerization in the Function of GPCRsK02DA026434 · NIDA · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI FILIZOLA, MARTA · 2009 to 2018
$1.2M
NIDA NIH HHS DA017976NIDA NIH HHS DA020032NIDA NIH HHS DA026434NIDA NIH HHS K02 DA026434NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA020032NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA017976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) are the most targeted group of proteins for the development of therapeutic drugs. Until the last decade, structural information about this family of membrane proteins was relatively scarce, and their mechanisms of ligand binding and signal transduction were modeled on the assumption that GPCRs existed and functioned as monomeric entities. New crystal structures of native and engineered GPCRs, together with important biochemical and biophysical data that reveal structural details of the activation mechanism(s) of this receptor family, provide a valuable framework to improve dynamic molecular models of GPCRs with the ultimate goal of elucidating their allostery and functional selectivity. Since the dynamic movements of single GPCR protomers are likely to be affected by the presence of neighboring interacting subunits, oligomeric arrangements should be taken into account to improve the predictive ability of computer-assisted structural models of GPCRs for effective use in drug design.

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Drug DesignModels, MolecularComputer-Aided DesignDrug Delivery SystemsHumansLigandsProtein BindingReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSignal TransductionLigandsReceptors, G-Protein-Coupled

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PMID20028319
PMCPMC4332530

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