Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Development of an antibody fragment that stabilizes GPCR/G-protein complexes

  • Shoji Maeda,
  • Antoine Koehl,
  • Hugues Matile,
  • Hongli Hu,
  • Daniel Hilger,
  • Gebhard F. X. Schertler,
  • Aashish Manglik,
  • Georgios Skiniotis,
  • Roger J. P. Dawson,
  • Brian K. Kobilka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06002-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The determination of high resolution structures of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in complex with heterotrimeric G proteins is challenging. Here authors develop an antibody fragment, mAB16, which stabilizes GPCR/G-protein complexes and facilitates the application of high resolution cryo-EM.