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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Visualizing agonist-induced M2 receptor activation regulated by aromatic ring dynamics.

Zhou Gong, Xu Zhang, Maili Liu, Changwen Jin, Yunfei Hu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zhou GongState Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6883-4026
Xu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
Maili LiuState Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9359-915X
Changwen JinBeijing NMR Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1352-2540
Yunfei HuState Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0156-2326

Funding

The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB0540000the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2020329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the growing number of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structures being resolved, the dynamic process of how GPCRs transit from the inactive toward the active state remains unclear. In this study, comprehensive molecular dynamics simulations were performed to explore how ligand binding modulates the conformational dynamics of the M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M2R). We observed a sequential occurrence of structural changes in the inactive-to-active transition of M2R induced by a superagonist iperoxo, which includes the orthosteric binding site contraction, the TM6 opening into an intermediate conformation, and a further structural change toward full activation upon binding to G protein or a G protein mimetic nanobody. Two activation intermediates were identified, which show structural features different from those reported for apo-GPCRs. Moreover, our results suggest that stabilization of a specific W400

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Receptor, Muscarinic M2Binding SitesHumansIsoxazolesLigandsMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationQuaternary Ammonium CompoundsiperoxoIsoxazolesLigandsQuaternary Ammonium CompoundsReceptor, Muscarinic M2activationdynamicsG protein-coupled receptorligand efficacy

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PMID40053366
PMCPMC11912407

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