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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Exploring the activation mechanism of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2.

Xiaohong Zhu, Mengqi Luo, Ke An, Danfeng Shi, Tingjun Hou, Arieh Warshel, Chen Bai

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. 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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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Xiaohong Zhu *Warshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Life and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, People's Republic of China.
Mengqi Luo *College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China.
Ke AnChenzhu (MoMeD) Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310005, People's Republic of China.
Danfeng ShiWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Life and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, People's Republic of China.
Tingjun HouCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People's Republic of China.
Arieh WarshelDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1062.
Chen BaiWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Life and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, People's Republic of China.

Funding

Multiscale Simulations of Biological Systems and ProcessesR35GM122472 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ARIEH WARSHEL · 2017 to 2026
$5.0M
2021 Basic Research General Project of Shenzhen, ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of YouthNIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homomeric dimerization of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlus) is essential for the modulation of their functions and represents a promising avenue for the development of novel therapeutic approaches to address central nervous system diseases. Yet, the scarcity of detailed molecular and energetic data on mGlu2 impedes our in-depth comprehension of their activation process. Here, we employ computational simulation methods to elucidate the activation process and key events associated with the mGlu2, including a detailed analysis of its conformational transitions, the binding of agonists, G

Indexed as

Receptors, Metabotropic GlutamateHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein Multimerizationmetabotropic glutamate receptor 2Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamateactivation mechanismagonist bindingfree-energy landscapesmGlu2mutational effects

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PMID38739800
PMCPMC11126994

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