Seven-transmembrane receptors

KL Pierce, RT Premont, RJ Lefkowitz - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2002 - nature.com
Seven-transmembrane receptors, which constitute the largest, most ubiquitous and most
versatile family of membrane receptors, are also the most common target of therapeutic …

Lung infections associated with cystic fibrosis

JB Lyczak, CL Cannon, GB Pier - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
While originally characterized as a collection of related syndromes, cystic fibrosis (CF) is
now recognized as a single disease whose diverse symptoms stem from the wide tissue …

International Union of Pharmacology LVIII: update on the P2Y G protein-coupled nucleotide receptors: from molecular mechanisms and pathophysiology to therapy

MP Abbracchio, G Burnstock, JM Boeynaems… - Pharmacological …, 2006 - ASPET
There have been many advances in our knowledge about different aspects of P2Y receptor
signaling since the last review published by our International Union of Pharmacology …

ERM proteins and merlin: integrators at the cell cortex

A Bretscher, K Edwards, RG Fehon - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2002 - nature.com
A fundamental property of many plasma-membrane proteins is their association with the
underlying cytoskeleton to determine cell shape, and to participate in adhesion, motility and …

The E-NTPDase family of ectonucleotidases: structure function relationships and pathophysiological significance

SC Robson, J Sévigny, H Zimmermann - Purinergic signalling, 2006 - Springer
Ectonucleotidases are ectoenzymes that hydrolyze extracellular nucleotides to the
respective nucleosides. Within the past decade, ectonucleotidases belonging to several …

Fine-tuning of GPCR activity by receptor-interacting proteins

SL Ritter, RA Hall - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate physiological responses to various ligands,
such as hormones, neurotransmitters and sensory stimuli. The signalling and trafficking …

[HTML][HTML] TAZ: a novel transcriptional co‐activator regulated by interactions with 14‐3‐3 and PDZ domain proteins

F Kanai, PA Marignani, D Sarbassova, R Yagi… - The EMBO …, 2000 - embopress.org
The highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed 14‐3‐3 proteins regulate differentiation,
cell cycle progression and apoptosis by binding intracellular phosphoproteins involved in …

G protein-coupled receptor allosterism and complexing

A Christopoulos, T Kenakin - Pharmacological reviews, 2002 - ASPET
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent the largest family of cell-surface receptors.
These receptors are natural allosteric proteins because agonist-mediated signaling by …

Mechanism and role of PDZ domains in signaling complex assembly

BZ Harris, WA Lim - Journal of cell science, 2001 - journals.biologists.com
PDZ domains are protein-protein recognition modules that play a central role in organizing
diverse cell signaling assemblies. These domains specifically recognize short C-terminal …

Regulation of receptor trafficking by GRKs and arrestins

CAC Moore, SK Milano, JL Benovic - Annu. Rev. Physiol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
To ensure that extracellular stimuli are translated into intracellular signals of appropriate
magnitude and specificity, most signaling cascades are tightly regulated. One of the major …