Structural Biology of G Protein-coupled Receptor Signaling Complexes

Overview

Journal Protein Sci

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2018 Oct 13

PMID 30311978

Citations 23

Authors

X Edward Zhou

Karsten Melcher

H Eric Xu

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Abstract

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest family of cell surface receptors that mediate numerous cell signaling pathways, and are targets of more than one-third of clinical drugs. Thanks to the advancement of novel structural biology technologies, high-resolution structures of GPCRs in complex with their signaling transducers, including G-protein and arrestin, have been determined. These 3D complex structures have significantly improved our understanding of the molecular mechanism of GPCR signaling and provided a structural basis for signaling-biased drug discovery targeting GPCRs. Here we summarize structural studies of GPCR signaling complexes with G protein and arrestin using rhodopsin as a model system, and highlight the key features of GPCR conformational states in biased signaling including the sequence motifs of receptor TM6 that determine selective coupling of G proteins, and the phosphorylation codes of GPCRs for arrestin recruitment. We envision the future of GPCR structural biology not only to solve more high-resolution complex structures but also to show stepwise GPCR signaling complex assembly and disassembly and dynamic process of GPCR signal transduction.

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