Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms

DA Bangasser, A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are …

G protein-coupled receptors: structure-and function-based drug discovery

D Yang, Q Zhou, V Labroska, S Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the most successful therapeutic target families, G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) have experienced a transformation from random ligand screening to knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Signaling snapshots of a serotonin receptor activated by the prototypical psychedelic LSD

C Cao, X Barros-Álvarez, S Zhang, K Kim, MA Dämgen… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) 5-HT2-family receptors represent essential
targets for lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and all other psychedelic drugs. Although the …

Common activation mechanism of class A GPCRs

Q Zhou, D Yang, M Wu, Y Guo, W Guo, L Zhong, X Cai… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Class A G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) influence virtually every aspect of human
physiology. Understanding receptor activation mechanism is critical for discovering novel …

Mechanisms of physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy

M Nakamura, J Sadoshima - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Cardiomyocytes exit the cell cycle and become terminally differentiated soon after birth.
Therefore, in the adult heart, instead of an increase in cardiomyocyte number, individual …

Mechanisms of signalling and biased agonism in G protein-coupled receptors

D Wootten, A Christopoulos, M Marti-Solano… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest group of cell surface receptors in
humans that signal in response to diverse inputs and regulate a plethora of cellular …

Molecular mechanism of biased signaling at the kappa opioid receptor

A El Daibani, JM Paggi, K Kim, YD Laloudakis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The κ-opioid receptor (KOR) has emerged as an attractive drug target for pain management
without addiction, and biased signaling through particular pathways of KOR may be key to …

Impact of GPCR structures on drug discovery

M Congreve, C de Graaf, NA Swain, CG Tate - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structures of 70 unique G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been determined, with
over 370 structures in total bound to different ligands and the receptors in various …

Non-canonical β-adrenergic activation of ERK at endosomes

Y Kwon, S Mehta, M Clark, G Walters, Y Zhong, HN Lee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the largest family of signalling receptors, as well as
important drug targets, are known to activate extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (ERK)—a …

Structure-based virtual screening for ligands of G protein–coupled receptors: what can molecular docking do for you?

F Ballante, AJ Kooistra, S Kampen, C de Graaf… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest family of membrane proteins in
the human genome and are important therapeutic targets. During the last decade, the …