Article
Targeting individual GPCRs with redesigned nonvisual arrestins.
Handbook of experimental pharmacology - 1 Jan 2014
Gimenez Luis E, Vishnivetskiy Sergey A, Gurevich Vsevolod V
Abstract excerpt
Numerous human diseases are caused by excessive signaling of mutant G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) or receptors that are overstimulated due to upstream signaling imbalances. The feasibility of functional compensation by arrestins with enhanced ability to quench receptor signaling was recently tested in the visual system. The results showed that even in this extremely demanding situation of rods that have no...
Topics
- Animals
- Arrestins
- Humans
- Mutation
- Phosphates
- Phosphorylation
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
- Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells
- Rhodopsin
- Signal Transduction
