Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Modulatory mechanisms of TARP γ8-selective AMPA receptor therapeutics

  • Danyang Zhang,
  • Remigijus Lape,
  • Saher A. Shaikh,
  • Bianka K. Kohegyi,
  • Jake F. Watson,
  • Ondrej Cais,
  • Terunaga Nakagawa,
  • Ingo H. Greger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37259-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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AMPA receptors associated with TARP subunits enable the development of selective AMPA receptor drugs. Here, the authors provide cryo-EM structures of receptors bound to three TARP-γ8 selective drugs, and reveal bifunctionality of one ligand.