Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Minute-scale persistence of a GPCR conformation state triggered by non-cognate G protein interactions primes signaling

  • Tejas M. Gupte,
  • Michael Ritt,
  • Matthew Dysthe,
  • Rabia U. Malik,
  • Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12755-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Recent reports suggest the spatial and temporal coupling of receptor-effector interactions, with the potential to diversify downstream responses. Here authors demonstrate the temporal coupling of cognate and non-cognate G protein interactions through priming of GPCR conformation.