Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Ligand recognition mechanism of the human relaxin family peptide receptor 4 (RXFP4)

  • Yan Chen,
  • Qingtong Zhou,
  • Jiang Wang,
  • Youwei Xu,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Jiahui Yan,
  • Yibing Wang,
  • Qi Zhu,
  • Fenghui Zhao,
  • Chenghao Li,
  • Chuan-Wei Chen,
  • Xiaoqing Cai,
  • Ross A .D. Bathgate,
  • Chun Shen,
  • H. Eric Xu,
  • Dehua Yang,
  • Hong Liu,
  • Ming-Wei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36182-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Relaxin family peptide receptor 4 (RXFP4) regulates pleiotropic biological processes. Here, authors report cryo-EM structures revealing the ligand-binding modes and key determinants of peptidomimetic agonism and subtype selectivity