Motions around conserved helical weak spots facilitate GPCR activation.

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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) participate in most physiological processes and are important drug targets in many therapeutic areas. Recently, many GPCR X-ray structures became available, facilitating detailed studies of their sequence-structure-mobility-function relations. We show that the functional role of many conserved GPCR sequence motifs is to create weak spots in the transmembrane helices that...

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