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ReviewBioscience reports2017

Methods used to study the oligomeric structure of G-protein-coupled receptors.

Hui Guo, Su An, Richard Ward, Yang Yang, Ying Liu, Xiao-Xi Guo, Qian Hao, Tian-Rui Xu

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Review in Bioscience reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Orthogonal Peptide-Templated Labeling Elucidates Lateral ETChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2022
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  16. Aptameric Probe Specifically Binding Protein Heterodimer Rather Than Monomers.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2019
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  17. Selection of Biophysical Methods for Characterisation of Membrane Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  18. GPCR homo-oligomerization.Current opinion in cell biology · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Hui GuoFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Su AnFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Richard WardMolecular Pharmacology Group, Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.
Yang YangFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Ying LiuFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Xiao-Xi GuoFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Qian HaoFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.
Tian-Rui XuFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China tianruixu@kmust.edu.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which constitute the largest family of cell surface receptors, were originally thought to function as monomers, but are now recognized as being able to act in a wide range of oligomeric states and indeed, it is known that the oligomerization state of a GPCR can modulate its pharmacology and function. A number of experimental techniques have been devised to study GPCR oligomerization including those based upon traditional biochemistry such as blue-native PAGE (BN-PAGE), co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) and protein-fragment complementation assays (PCAs), those based upon resonance energy transfer, FRET, time-resolved FRET (TR-FRET), FRET spectrometry and bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET). Those based upon microscopy such as FRAP, total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM), spatial intensity distribution analysis (SpIDA) and various single molecule imaging techniques. Finally with the solution of a growing number of crystal structures, X-ray crystallography must be acknowledged as an important source of discovery in this field. A different, but in many ways complementary approach to the use of more traditional experimental techniques, are those involving computational methods that possess obvious merit in the study of the dynamics of oligomer formation and function. Here, we summarize the latest developments that have been made in the methods used to study GPCR oligomerization and give an overview of their application.

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AnimalsCrystallography, X-RayFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHumansImmunoprecipitationProtein MultimerizationReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledReceptors, G-Protein-Coupledcomputational methodsFRET technologyGPCRoligomerization

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PMCPMC5398257

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