Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Structural basis of ligand interaction with atypical chemokine receptor 3

  • Martin Gustavsson,
  • Liwen Wang,
  • Noortje van Gils,
  • Bryan S. Stephens,
  • Penglie Zhang,
  • Thomas J. Schall,
  • Sichun Yang,
  • Ruben Abagyan,
  • Mark R. Chance,
  • Irina Kufareva,
  • Tracy M. Handel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14135
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3) is important for cell migration in development and cancer. Here the authors combine radiolytic footprinting, disulfide trapping, mutagenesis and molecular modelling to characterize the ligand interactions and ligand-induced conformational changes in ACKR3.