Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Structural basis of selective cannabinoid CB2 receptor activation

  • Xiaoting Li,
  • Hao Chang,
  • Jara Bouma,
  • Laura V. de Paus,
  • Partha Mukhopadhyay,
  • Janos Paloczi,
  • Mohammed Mustafa,
  • Cas van der Horst,
  • Sanjay Sunil Kumar,
  • Lijie Wu,
  • Yanan Yu,
  • Richard J. B. H. N. van den Berg,
  • Antonius P. A. Janssen,
  • Aron Lichtman,
  • Zhi-Jie Liu,
  • Pal Pacher,
  • Mario van der Stelt,
  • Laura H. Heitman,
  • Tian Hua

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37112-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Cannabinoid CB2 receptor (CB2R) agonists are investigated as therapeutic agents in the clinic. Here, authors report the discovery of LEI-102, a CB2R agonist, used in conjunction with three other CBR ligands (APD371, HU308, and CP55,940) to investigate selective CB2R activation.