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Large scale expression and purification of the mouse 5-HT3 receptor

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Enhancing the Signaling of GPCRs via Orthosteric Ions

G protein-coupled receptors play essential roles in cellular processes such as neuronal signaling, vision, olfaction, tasting, and metabolism. As GPCRs are the most important drug targets, understanding their interactions with ligands is of utmost importan ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Protein Structural Information and Evolutionary Landscape by In Vitro Evolution

Paolo De Los Rios

Protein structure is tightly intertwined with function according to the laws of evolution. Understanding how structure determines function has been the aim of structural biology for decades. Here, we have wondered instead whether it is possible to exploit ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Structure of a D2 dopamine receptor-G-protein complex in a lipid membrane

Mahdi Hijazi, Patrick Daniel Barth

The D2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) is a therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease(1)and antipsychotic drugs(2). DRD2 is activated by the endogenous neurotransmitter dopamine and synthetic agonist drugs such as bromocriptine(3), leading to stimulation of G(i) ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Accuracy of Molecular Simulation-Based Predictions of k(off) Values: A Metadynamics Study

Ursula Röthlisberger, Michele Parrinello, Paolo Carloni, Simone Meloni, Viacheslav Bolnykh

The k(off) values of ligands unbinding to proteins are key parameters for drug discovery. Their predictions based on molecular simulation may under- or overestimate experiment in a system- and/or technique-dependent way. Here we use an established method-i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Image-Based Marker-Free Screening of GABA(A) Agonists, Antagonists, and Modulators

Gerardo Turcatti, Pierre Marquet, Damiano Banfi, Pascal Jourdain, Benjamin Rappaz, Fabien Kuttler

The ionotropic GABA(A) receptors represent the main target for different groups of widely used drugs having hypnotic and anxiolytic effects. So far, most approaches used to assess GABA activity involve invasive low -throughput electrophysiological techniqu ...

2019

Advanced Computational Methods for NMR Crystallography

Albert Hofstetter

Knowledge of the atomic-level structure is key to understanding and predicting properties of materials. X-ray diffraction (XRD) is the methods of choice for structures containing well-defined long-range order. However, many materials contain various degree ...

EPFL2019

Computational design of G Protein-Coupled Receptor allosteric signal transductions

Patrick Daniel Barth, Dániel Kéri

Membrane receptors sense and transduce extracellular stimuli into intracellular signaling responses but the molecular underpinnings remain poorly understood. We report a computational approach for designing protein allosteric signaling functions. By combin ...

2020

Crosslinking Allosteric Sites on the Nucleosome Core Particle

Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Designing compounds that bind to the acidic patch of the nucleosome core particle (NCP) is an emerging therapeutic approach that can inhibit the binding of key chromatin factors. Pretreatment of human ovarian carcinoma, A2780, cells with RAPTA-T, an antime ...

EPFL2019

Mechanistic insights into AMP-activated protein kinase-dependent gene expression

Caterina Collodet

AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a fundamental enzyme that controls energy homeostasis, through orchestrating the cellular response to a reduction in energy availability. Under conditions of cellular energy stress AMPK senses the decrease in ATP leve ...

EPFL2019