Deganutti, Giuseppe and Moro, Stefano and Reynolds, Christopher A (2019) Peeking at G-protein-coupled receptors through the molecular dynamics keyhole. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 11 (6). pp. 599-615. DOI https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc-2018-0393
Deganutti, Giuseppe and Moro, Stefano and Reynolds, Christopher A (2019) Peeking at G-protein-coupled receptors through the molecular dynamics keyhole. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 11 (6). pp. 599-615. DOI https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc-2018-0393
Deganutti, Giuseppe and Moro, Stefano and Reynolds, Christopher A (2019) Peeking at G-protein-coupled receptors through the molecular dynamics keyhole. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 11 (6). pp. 599-615. DOI https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc-2018-0393
Abstract
Molecular dynamics is a state of the art computational tool for the investigation of biophysics phenomenon at a molecular scale, as it enables the modeling of dynamic processes, such as conformational motions, molecular solvation and ligand binding. The recent advances in structural biology have led to a bloom in published G-protein-coupled receptor structures, representing a solid and valuable resource for molecular dynamics studies. During the last decade, indeed, a plethora of physiological and pharmacological facets of this membrane protein superfamily have been addressed by means of molecular dynamics simulations, including the activation mechanism, allosterism and, very recently, biased signaling. Here, we try to recapitulate some of the main contributions that molecular dynamics has recently produced in the field.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | allosterism; biased agonism; class B GPCRs; GPCRs; ligand binding; molecular dynamics; solvation |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2019 08:45 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:11 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/24880 |
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