Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Activation and signaling mechanism revealed by GPR119-Gs complex structures

  • Yuxia Qian,
  • Jiening Wang,
  • Linlin Yang,
  • Yanru Liu,
  • Lina Wang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yun Lin,
  • Hong Yang,
  • Lixin Ma,
  • Sheng Ye,
  • Shan Wu,
  • Anna Qiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34696-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Agonists selectively targeting GPR119 hold promise for treating metabolic disorders. Here, authors reveal that GPR119 adopts a non-canonical consensus structural scaffold with an extended ligand-binding pocket for chemically different agonists.