Lifting the lid on GPCRs: the role of extracellular loops

M Wheatley, D Wootten, MT Conner… - British journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
GPCRs exhibit a common architecture of seven transmembrane helices (TMs) linked by
intracellular loops and extracellular loops (ECLs). Given their peripheral location to the site …

Importance of the extracellular loops in G protein-coupled receptors for ligand recognition and receptor activation

MC Peeters, GJP Van Westen, Q Li… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2011 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the major drug target of medicines on the market
today. Therefore, much research is and has been devoted to the elucidation of the function …

The GPCR Network: a large-scale collaboration to determine human GPCR structure and function

RC Stevens, V Cherezov, V Katritch… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2013 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are targeted by∼ 30–40% of marketed drugs, and
their key roles in normal physiology and in disease demonstrate that an understanding of …

Structural insights into ligand recognition and selectivity for classes A, B, and C GPCRs

SM Lee, JM Booe, AA Pioszak - European journal of pharmacology, 2015 - Elsevier
The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily constitutes the largest collection of cell
surface signaling proteins with approximately 800 members in the human genome. GPCRs …

Structured and disordered facets of the GPCR fold

AJ Venkatakrishnan, T Flock, DE Prado… - Current Opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•The relative arrangement of the transmembrane helices is conserved across
GPCR classes.•GPCR activation can be regulated from varying depths in the …

[HTML][HTML] Structural studies of G protein-coupled receptors

D Zhang, Q Zhao, B Wu - Molecules and cells, 2015 - Elsevier
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest and the most physiologically
important membrane protein family that recognizes a variety of environmental stimuli, and …

Structure-function of the G protein–coupled receptor superfamily

V Katritch, V Cherezov… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
During the past few years, crystallography of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) has
experienced exponential growth, resulting in the determination of the structures of 16 distinct …

Elucidating the interactome of G protein-coupled receptors and receptor activity-modifying proteins

IB Kotliar, E Lorenzen, JM Schwenk, DL Hay… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - ASPET
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are known to interact with several other classes of
integral membrane proteins that modulate their biology and pharmacology. However, the …

Understanding the common themes and diverse roles of the second extracellular loop (ECL2) of the GPCR super-family

MJ Woolley, AC Conner - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2017 - Elsevier
The extracellular loops (ECLs) of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can bind directly to
docked orthosteric or allosteric ligands, they can contain transient contact points for ligand …

Structural basis for G protein-coupled receptor activation

A Manglik, AC Kruse - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are critical regulators of human physiology and make
up the largest single class of therapeutic drug targets. Although GPCRs regulate highly …