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Organization of the G Protein-coupled Receptors Rhodopsin and Opsin in Native Membranes

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This is the first semi-empirical model of a higher order structure of a GPCR in native membranes, and it has profound implications for the understanding of how this receptor interacts with partner proteins.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 2003-06-13 and is currently open access. It has received 595 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rhodopsin & Opsin.

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The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

TL;DR: A metagenomic study of the marine planktonic microbiota in which surface (mostly marine) water samples were analyzed as part of the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition, which yielded an extensive dataset consisting of 7.7 million sequencing reads.
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Lipid rafts: at a crossroad between cell biology and physics.

TL;DR: The concept of lipid rafts as it has emerged from the study of synthetic membranes with the reality of lateral heterogeneity in biological membranes is compared.
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Functional Selectivity and Classical Concepts of Quantitative Pharmacology

TL;DR: Besides the heuristically interesting nature of functional selectivity, there is a clear impact on drug discovery, because this mechanism raises the possibility of selecting or designing novel ligands that differentially activate only a subset of functions of a single receptor, thereby optimizing therapeutic action.
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Molecular Structure and Physiological Functions of GABAB Receptors

TL;DR: Current concepts on the molecular composition and function of GABA(B) receptors are reviewed and ongoing drug-discovery efforts are discussed, which are expected to broaden the spectrum of therapeutic applications.
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Microbial and animal rhodopsins: structures, functions, and molecular mechanisms.

TL;DR: Rhodopsins found in Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archaea consist of opsin apoproteins and a covalently linked retinal which is employed to absorb photons for energy conversion or the initiation of intra- or intercellular signaling.
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MOLMOL: a program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures.

TL;DR: Special efforts were made to allow for appropriate display and analysis of the sets of typically 20-40 conformers that are conventionally used to represent the result of an NMR structure determination, using functions for superimposing sets of conformers, calculation of root mean square distance (RMSD) values, identification of hydrogen bonds, and identification and listing of short distances between pairs of hydrogen atoms.
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Crystal Structure of Rhodopsin: A G Protein-Coupled Receptor

TL;DR: This article determined the structure of rhodopsin from diffraction data extending to 2.8 angstroms resolution and found that the highly organized structure in the extracellular region, including a conserved disulfide bridge, forms a basis for the arrangement of the sevenhelix transmembrane motif.
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Method to identify protein sequences that fold into a known three-dimensional structure

TL;DR: In this article, a computer-assisted method for identifying protein sequences that fold into a known 3D structure was proposed, based on three key features of each residue's environment within the structure: (1) the total area of the residue's side-chain that is buried by other protein atoms, inaccessible to solvent; (2) the fraction of the side-chains area that is covered by polar atoms (O, N) or water; and (3) the local secondary structure.
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TL;DR: This paper showed that the classical models of G-protein coupling and activation of second-messenger-generating enzymes do not fully explain seven-transmembrane receptors' remarkably diverse biological actions.
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TL;DR: 3D models of human nucleoside diphosphate kinase, mouse cellular retinoic acid binding protein I, and human eosinophil neurotoxin that were calculated by MODELLER, a program for comparative protein modeling by satisfaction of spatial restraints, have good stereochemistry and are at least as similar to the crystallographic structures as the closest template structures.
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