Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Molecular basis for allosteric agonism and G protein subtype selectivity of galanin receptors

  • Jia Duan,
  • Dan-Dan Shen,
  • Tingting Zhao,
  • Shimeng Guo,
  • Xinheng He,
  • Wanchao Yin,
  • Peiyu Xu,
  • Yujie Ji,
  • Li-Nan Chen,
  • Jinyu Liu,
  • Huibing Zhang,
  • Qiufeng Liu,
  • Yi Shi,
  • Xi Cheng,
  • Hualiang Jiang,
  • H. Eric Xu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xin Xie,
  • Yi Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29072-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The basis for the diverse peptide-binding modes and the G protein selectivity of peptide GPCRs remains elusive. Here, the authors offer a structural basis for allosteric-like agonism and G protein selectivity of a neuropeptide GPCR, galanin receptor.