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  1. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ...intracellular surface of the GPCR. Binding of a ligand to the extracellular surface of the GPCR causes a conformational...understudied GPCRs in response to different agonists. These studies showed the promiscuity of GPCRs for different...they do so is through G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), receptors that play many roles in signaling processes...approximately 950 different human genes encoding GPCRs (Takeda S et al., 2002) and many downstream complexes...can be difficult for scientists to understand how GPCR activation leads to downstream effects.  Bryan ...transducerome) that can be activated downstream of GPCRs that are not involved in sight (Olsen RHJ et al....protein. This complex converts a signal received by a GPCR on the cell’s surface into action that can result...
  2. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...five senses? GPCRs or G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)! Aside from these three senses, GPCRs play roles...signal through more than one subtype. How GPCR signaling works GPCR signaling is initiated when a ligand binds...extracellular surface of the GPCR. This results in a conformational change in the GPCR causing the activation... Addgene Tools for Studying GPCR signaling  So with the hundreds of GPCRs out there, how can scientists...activate many GPCRs are still unknown. To identify some of these unknown ligands and their GPCR binding partner...120 known GPCR targets demonstrating its potential to discover new ligands for unknown GPCRs. You can ...our blog post on GPCR signaling using TRUPATH for more information on this system! GPCR-APEX: Interested...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    ...controlling GPCR activation have been developed to selectively study individual types of GPCRs with greater...be used for lower frequency stimulation. GPCR signaling GPCR signaling is a complicated process involving...change the membrane potential. OptoXRs are modified GPCRs. When exposed to light, they activate downstream... coupled receptors  G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) regulate cellular function through multiple intra-cellular...have been developed for utilizing light to control GPCR activation and downstream signaling cascades (reviewed...Levitz, 2020), including light-sensitive chimeric GPCRS (OptoXRs) (Tichy et al., 2019), photoswitchable ...rhodopsin, and the intracellular domain of an endogenous GPCR, such as adrenergic receptors. When exposed to light...
  4. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...biosensors kit By Mike Lacy G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are critical components of many physiological pathways...targets. To enable large-scale profiling of many GPCRs, Mikel Garcia-Marcos’ lab recently developed a collection... detection of activation triggered by endogenous GPCR. Example applications include large-scale pharmacological...The authors used this platform to assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in varying conditions, revealing...2024). Direct interrogation of context-dependent GPCR activity with a universal biosensor platform. Cell...
  5. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    ...signaling pathways G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) detect molecules outside of the cell and translate...those signals into cellular responses. For example, GPCRs and their downstream G protein partners can regulate...have a long standing interest in the biology of GPCRs and G proteins, with an emphasis on oligomerization...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...designer drugs, are G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), that have been reprogrammed to respond only to... threshold and silence neurons. DREADD-activated GPCR signaling can also modify other properties such ...
  7. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...target G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) yet one third of the GPCRs in the human genome are orphan receptors...are unknown. Identifying new ligands for orphan GPCRs is of significant medical interest, however efforts...allows researchers to interrogate the druggable human GPCR-ome using a quick, affordable, and ubiquitous reporter...recruitment assay incorporating 314 codon-optimized GPCR sequences for human cell line expression. In a twist...identified new, highly specific agonists for orphan GPCRs demonstrating the utility of this platform for drug...easily shuttle the optimized, expression validated GPCR sequences to any desired backbone.  Kroeze, et ...
  8. Hot Plasmids: May 2026

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    ...still somewhat limited. Following up on their first GPCR-based norepinephrine biosensors nLightG and nLightR...respectively. Inspired by recent improvements on another GPCR-based reporter for dopamine, GRABDA3m, Rohner et...
  9. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    ... loop regions of any G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) recognizing a specific ligand (Ino et al. 2022)...produce more than 20 other MTRIA sensors based on GPCRs recognizing various neurotransmitters, neuropeptides...
  10. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Biosensors

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    ...receptors (GPCRs) Yeast GPCR-sensor Toolkit includes plasmids for constructing highly-tunable GPCR-based biosensors...eabq8173. Yulong Li Norepinephrine nLight red and green GPCR-based NE indicators Sensitive multicolor indicators...Norepinephrine nLightR2 and nLightG2 red and green GPCR-based NE indicators Next-generation multicolor indicators...Tommaso Patriarchi Norepinephrine GRAB_NE family of GPCR activation-based NE sensors A Genetically Encoded...
  11. Distribution to Industry

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    ...Proteins Mikel Garcia-Marcos 10 plasmids for detecting GPCR activity in a variety of cell types. Protein Purification...
  12. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ... of the new viral preps from recent months: New GPCR activation-based norepinephrine (GRABNE) sensors...
  13. Brain Initiative Collection

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    .... Used for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 139505-AAV8 .... Used for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 139505-AAV9 .... Used for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 140135-AAV1 ...
  14. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...adhesion molecules, transporters, ion channels, GPCRs, and more.  Figure 1: Workflow for cell-...
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