Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Prospect of acromegaly therapy: molecular mechanism of clinical drugs octreotide and paltusotine

  • Jie Zhao,
  • Hong Fu,
  • Jingjing Yu,
  • Weiqi Hong,
  • Xiaowen Tian,
  • Jieyu Qi,
  • Suyue Sun,
  • Chang Zhao,
  • Chao Wu,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Lin Cheng,
  • Renjie Chai,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Xiawei Wei,
  • Zhenhua Shao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36673-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2) represents a therapeutic target of neuroendocrine tumors. Here, authors report two structures of SSTR2 bound to peptide octreotide and small molecule paltusotine, revealing the basis subtype selectivity and signal bias properties.