Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

The role of kinetic context in apparent biased agonism at GPCRs

  • Carmen Klein Herenbrink,
  • David A. Sykes,
  • Prashant Donthamsetti,
  • Meritxell Canals,
  • Thomas Coudrat,
  • Jeremy Shonberg,
  • Peter J. Scammells,
  • Ben Capuano,
  • Patrick M. Sexton,
  • Steven J. Charlton,
  • Jonathan A. Javitch,
  • Arthur Christopoulos,
  • J. Robert Lane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10842
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Biased agonists act at a receptor to preferentially induce distinct intracellular signalling responses over others. Here the authors show how kinetics of ligand binding and signaling responses greatly influence observed bias profiles, and hence must be considered when studying biased agonists.