Advances in therapeutic peptides targeting G protein-coupled receptors

AP Davenport, CCG Scully, C de Graaf… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Dysregulation of peptide-activated pathways causes a range of diseases, fostering the
discovery and clinical development of peptide drugs. Many endogenous peptides activate G …

AlphaFold2 versus experimental structures: evaluation on G protein-coupled receptors

X He, C You, H Jiang, Y Jiang, HE Xu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2023 - nature.com
As important drug targets, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play pivotal roles in a wide
range of physiological processes. Extensive efforts of structural biology have been made on …

GPCRdb in 2023: state-specific structure models using AlphaFold2 and new ligand resources

G Pándy-Szekeres, J Caroli, A Mamyrbekov… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are physiologically abundant signaling hubs routing
hundreds of extracellular signal substances and drugs into intracellular pathways. The …

GPCRdb in 2021: integrating GPCR sequence, structure and function

AJ Kooistra, S Mordalski… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) form both the largest family of membrane proteins and
drug targets, mediating the action of one-third of medicines. The GPCR database, GPCRdb …

GPCR activation mechanisms across classes and macro/microscales

AS Hauser, AJ Kooistra, C Munk… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
Two-thirds of human hormones and one-third of clinical drugs activate~ 350 G-protein-
coupled receptors (GPCR) belonging to four classes: A, B1, C and F. Whereas a model of …

Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes

J Lyu, S Wang, TE Balius, I Singh, A Levit, YS Moroz… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Despite intense interest in expanding chemical space, libraries containing hundreds-of-
millions to billions of diverse molecules have remained inaccessible. Here we investigate …

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 …

Structural insights into the lipid and ligand regulation of serotonin receptors

P Xu, S Huang, H Zhang, C Mao, XE Zhou, X Cheng… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is an important neurotransmitter, that
activates the largest subtype family of G-protein-coupled receptors. Drugs that target 5 …

Structure-based discovery of nonopioid analgesics acting through the α2A-adrenergic receptor

EA Fink, J Xu, H Hübner, JM Braz, P Seemann, C Avet… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Because nonopioid analgesics are much sought after, we computationally docked more
than 301 million virtual molecules against a validated pain target, the α2A-adrenergic …

Structural basis for the tethered peptide activation of adhesion GPCRs

YQ Ping, P Xiao, F Yang, RJ Zhao, SC Guo, X Yan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Adhesion G-protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) are important for organogenesis,
neurodevelopment, reproduction and other processes,,,,–. Many aGPCRs are activated by a …