Nature Communications (May 2022)

The pocketome of G-protein-coupled receptors reveals previously untargeted allosteric sites

  • Janik B. Hedderich,
  • Margherita Persechino,
  • Katharina Becker,
  • Franziska M. Heydenreich,
  • Torben Gutermuth,
  • Michel Bouvier,
  • Moritz Bünemann,
  • Peter Kolb

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29609-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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G-protein-coupled receptors bind endogenous ligands at sites that are frequently highly conserved. Here, authors computationally describe alternative allosteric pockets, several of which have not been targeted by synthetic ligands before.