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ArticleBiochemistry2020

Activation Microswitches in Adenosine Receptor A

Ning Ma, Sangbae Lee, Nagarajan Vaidehi

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Article in Biochemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ning MaDepartment of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4653-7797
Sangbae LeeDepartment of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010, United States.
Nagarajan VaidehiDepartment of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8100-8132
City of Hope · US

Funding

Structural dynamics underlying GPCR-G protein selectivityR01GM117923 · NIGMS · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI VAIDEHI, NAGARAJAN · 2017 to 2024
$3.8M
Computationally Guided Design of Thermostable mutants of Neurotensin receptor1R01GM097261 · NIGMS · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI VAIDEHI, NAGARAJAN · 2011 to 2018
$2.3M
An integrated toolkit combining computational systems biology techniques with molecular dynamics simulations to delineate functionality of GPCRsR01LM013876 · NLM · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI RODIN, ANDREI, VAIDEHI, NAGARAJAN · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097261NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117923NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although multiple components of the cell membrane modulate the stability and activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), insights into the dynamics of GPCR structures come from biophysical studies conducted in detergents. This is because of the challenges of studying activation in a multicomponent lipid bilayer. To understand the role of cellular membrane lipids and cations in GPCR activation, we performed multiscale molecular dynamics simulations (56 μs) on three different conformational states of adenosine receptor A

Indexed as

Cell MembraneHumansLipid BilayersMolecular Dynamics SimulationPhosphatidylinositol 4,5-DiphosphateReceptor, Adenosine A2ALipid BilayersPhosphatidylinositol 4,5-DiphosphateReceptor, Adenosine A2A

Identifiers

PMID33054162
PMCPMC8526178
OpenAlexW3092981471

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