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Chemokine receptor-targeted drug discovery: progress and challenges
The chemokine receptor system is implicated in a wide range of inflammatory, autoimmune and infectious diseases (Proudfoot 2002), and in...

Inês Pinheiro
Jan 9, 20244 min read
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Targeting Intracellular Allosteric Sites in GPCRs
Exploring the intracellular allosteric site GPCRs represent one of the largest and most vital families of cell surface receptors, playing...

Inês Pinheiro
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Nanobodies: New Dimensions in GPCR Signaling Research
Nanobodies (Nbs), known as variable antigen-binding (VHH) domain or single-domain antibodies, are small antigen-binding fragments. Nbs...

Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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Decoding β-Arrestins: from Structure to function
Fine-tuning GPCR signaling: conformational dynamics and intracellular responses GPCR signaling is a complex process modulated by protein...

Inês Pinheiro
Aug 21, 20235 min read
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Structural landscape of the Chemokine Receptor system
Chemokine receptors (CKRs) belong to a subfamily of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and play a crucial role in inflammation and...
Inês Pinheiro
Jun 28, 20237 min read
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Unlocking Cell's Secrets: Spontaneous β-Arrestin-Membrane Preassociation Drives Receptor-Activation
At the cellular level, the plasmatic membrane is a thin layer of lipids that surrounds the entire cell allowing the differentiation...
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
May 26, 20233 min read
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Artificial intelligence – faster, smarter, cheaper GPCR drug discovery
Artificial intelligence - Machine learning vs Deep Learning GPCRs have long been recognized as important drug targets, and numerous drugs...
Inês Pinheiro
May 16, 20235 min read
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VAMP2: a crucial player in the delivery of MOR to the synapse
Transporting Protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to the synapse, where they are involved in neurotransmission, is a complex process...
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Apr 21, 20233 min read
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Feeder or trigger – CCR2 as a scavenger and regulator of cell migration
Canonical chemokine receptors – scavenging “decoys” Chemokine receptors coordinate cell migration upon interaction with their cognate...
Inês Pinheiro
Apr 11, 20234 min read
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Regulators of G-protein signaling: essential players in GPCR signaling
Regulator G protein Signaling (RGS) proteins are critical components of the intracellular signaling pathways that mediate the effects of...
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Mar 2, 20233 min read
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Glyco-sulfo hotspots in the chemokine receptor system
Glycosylation and sulfation – N-terminal PTMs on chemokine receptors The interaction of chemokine receptors with their cognate chemokine...
Inês Pinheiro
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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New role of β-arrestins in MOR signaling
With around 187 people dying every day from an opioid overdose in the U.S., combatting the opioid overdose epidemic has become a mean...
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Feb 13, 20233 min read
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Unlocking the Therapeutic Potential of Previously Undruggable GPCRs
Executive Summary This whitepaper will provide an overview of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and discuss current trends in GPCR drug...
Orion Biotechnology
Feb 1, 202310 min read
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Odorant receptors – a bit of smell for drug discovery
Odorant receptors function and expression landscape Odorant receptors (ORs) belong to the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family and...
Inês Pinheiro
Jan 13, 20234 min read
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Overview of adhesion GPCRs self-activation
Among the different families of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), adhesion GPCRs (aGPCRs) represent the second most abundant in humans....
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Dec 18, 20224 min read
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Transmembrane domains of GPCR dimers – a novel hot spot for drug discovery
Transmembrane domains of GPCR dimers – a novel hot spot for drug discovery G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can form biologically...
Inês Pinheiro
Dec 6, 20223 min read
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Ode to GPCRs
Every year, with the month of October, comes the excitement of the Nobel session to the global scientific community. In the first few...
Nipuna Weerasinghe
Nov 14, 20228 min read
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TM5-TM6: structural switches that modulate the coupling of serotonin receptors to Gs or Gi
What is the molecular basis that determines that GPCRs bind selectively or promiscuously to different G proteins?. This question led...
Monserrat Avila-Zozaya
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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Therapeutic validation of an orphan G protein‐coupled receptor
Historically, ligands for GPCRs have been identified before their receptor counterparts. With the cloning revolution, several...
Inês Pinheiro
Sep 20, 20223 min read
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