The identification and development of biased modulators of proximal G protein-coupled receptor(GPCR)signaling to prevent pathological disease progression has been at the forefront of recent drug discovery efforts.Rece...
the National Institutes of Health (ROIGM072804,R21AR063255,R21NS106968, ROIGM080139,P41GM103832,American Heart Association (16GRNT2972000);Muscular Dystrophy Association (295138);National Science Foundation (DBI-1356306).
Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (InsP3Rs) are cation channels that mobilize Ca2+ from intracellular stores in response to a wide range of cellular stimuli.The paradigm of InsP3R activation is the coupled interp...
Acknowledgments We thank Dr Anthony Lai (Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK) for advice and suggestions during the course of this research and critically reading this manuscript. This research was supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB08030202 to FS), the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), the Ministry of Science & Technology of China (Programs 2012CB917200 to CCY and 2014CB910700 to FS), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270768 to CCY) and the Ministry of Education of China (111 Program China to CCY). All the cryo-EM work and all the intensive computations were performed at Centre for Biological Imaging, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CBI, http://cbi.ibp.ac.cn), with the help from Drs Xiaojun Huang and Lunjiang Lin.
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