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G protein-coupled receptors: a count of 1001 conformations.
Fundamental & clinical pharmacology - 1 Feb 2005
Vauquelin G, Van Liefde I
Abstract excerpt
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) were initially regarded to adopt an inactive and an active conformation and to activate a single type of G protein. Studies with recombinant cell systems have led to a more complex picture. First, GPCRs can activate distinct G protein species. Second, GPCR multistate models have been invoked to explain their complex behaviour in the presence of agonists, antagonists and other...
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