Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Structural mechanism underlying primary and secondary coupling between GPCRs and the Gi/o family

  • Hee Ryung Kim,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Shoji Maeda,
  • Nguyen Minh Duc,
  • Donghoon Ahn,
  • Yang Du,
  • Ka Young Chung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16975-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can couple to more than one G protein subtype, and the coupling efficiency varies depending on the GPCR-G protein pair. Here authors use hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and mutagenesis to study the structural mechanism underlying primary and secondary Gi/o coupling.