Nature Communications (Aug 2017)
Agonist-induced dimer dissociation as a macromolecular step in G protein-coupled receptor signaling
Abstract
Frizzled 6 (FZD6) is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) involved in several cellular processes. Here, the authors use live cell imaging and spectroscopy to show that FZD6 forms dimers, whose association is regulated by WNT proteins and that dimer dissociation is crucial for FZD6 signaling.