Predictable cholesterol binding sites in GPCRs lack consensus motifs

GJ Taghon, JB Rowe, NJ Kapolka, DG Isom - Structure, 2021 - cell.com
A rich diversity of transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are used by
eukaryotes to sense physical and chemical signals. In humans alone, 800 GPCRs comprise …

Substrate binding in the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier is a step-wise process guiding the structural changes in the transport cycle

V Mavridou, MS King, S Tavoulari, JJ Ruprecht… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers import ADP into the mitochondrial matrix and export ATP to
the cytosol to fuel cellular processes. Structures of the inhibited cytoplasmic-and matrix-open …

How Fusarium graminearum GPCRs Contribute To Fungal Virulence On Wheat

PS Sridhar - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Fusarium graminearum is the principal causal agent of Fusarium Head Blight, one of the
most destructive diseases of wheat. Infection of wheat by F. graminearum results in …

Probing drug-target engagement of soluble Gαi1 protein using the SolThermoBRET thermal shift assay

O Brod, D Plevako, T Perera, P Hompluem, EJ Koers… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Introduction: Sensitive protein stability assays used during hit confirmation conventionally
require high quantities of purified protein. Here, we describe a novel high-throughput 384 …

ThermoFRET: A novel nanoscale G protein coupled receptor thermostability assay functional in crude solubilised membrane preparations

DN Tippett, B Hoare, T Miljus, DA Sykes, DB Veprintsev - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Sensitive protein stability assays for membrane proteins are crucial for developing
purification protocols, for structural and biophysical characterisation and drug discovery …

[PDF][PDF] Cellular and Computational Studies of G Protein-coupled Receptor Structure, Function, and Ligand Binding

GJF Taghon - scholarship.miami.edu
Though the human G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily is a pillar of
pharmaceutical treatment, hundreds of GPCRs have yet unknown roles and are difficult to …