ReviewThe Journal of membrane biology2014
Amphipols in G protein-coupled receptor pharmacology: what are they good for?
Review in The Journal of membrane biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Advances in Crystallography and Cryo-Electron Microscopy for the Study of Membrane Proteins.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- G Protein-coupled Receptor (GPCR) Reconstitution and Labeling for Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Studies of the Structural Basis of Transmembrane Signaling.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Structure and Dynamics of GPCRs in Lipid Membranes: Physical Principles and Experimental Approaches.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Large-scale production and protein engineering of G protein-coupled receptors for structural studies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2015Review
- The use of amphipols for NMR structural characterization of 7-TM proteins.The Journal of membrane biology · 2014Article
- High-resolution structure of a membrane protein transferred from amphipol to a lipidic mesophase.The Journal of membrane biology · 2014Article
- Amphipols for each season.The Journal of membrane biology · 2014Review
- Isolation of Escherichia coli mannitol permease, EIImtl, trapped in amphipol A8-35 and fluorescein-labeled A8-35.The Journal of membrane biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
G protein-coupled receptors are at a central node of all cell communications. Investigating their molecular functioning is therefore crucial for both academic purposes and drug design. However, getting the receptors as isolated, stable and purified proteins for such studies still stumbles over their instability out of the membrane environment. Different membrane-mimicking environments have been developed so far to increase the stability of purified receptors. Among them are amphipols. These polymers not only preserve the native fold of receptors purified from membrane fractions but they also allow specific applications such as folding receptors purified from inclusion bodies back to their native state. Of importance, amphipol-trapped G protein-coupled receptors essentially maintain their pharmacological properties so that they are perfectly adapted to further investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying signaling processes. We review here how amphipols have been used to refold and stabilize detergent-solubilized purified receptors and what are the main subsequent molecular pharmacology analyses that were performed using this strategy.
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