Conformational fingerprinting of allosteric modulators in metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 [PDF]
eLife, 2022Activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is an allosteric process. It involves conformational coupling between the orthosteric ligand binding site and the G protein binding site. Factors that bind at non-cognate ligand binding sites to alter the
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Homology modelling of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 [PDF]
Journal of Cheminformatics, 2011Many studies show involvement of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) in synaptic excitation transudation. The mGluR family consists of eight proteins divided into three groups corresponding to sequence similarities, pharmacology and physiological role. These groups are: I (mGluR1, -5), II (mGluR2, -3) and III (mGluR4, -6, -7, -8).
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Paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia and antibodies to metabotropic glutamate receptor 2. [PDF]
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm, 2020Objective To report the presence of a new neuronal surface antibody against the metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 antibody (mGluR2-Ab) in 2 patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia.
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Exploring the activation mechanism of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance The G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) form a prominent group of cell receptors, deeply involved in the regulation of key physiological mechanisms in all major organ systems.
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Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 2 is a cellular receptor for rabies virus. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2018Rabies virus (RABV) invades the central nervous system and nearly always causes fatal disease in humans. How RABV interacts with host neuron membrane receptors to become internalized and cause rabid symptoms is not yet fully understood.
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Loss of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 escalates alcohol consumption. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013Significance Gene identification for complex behavioral traits, alcoholism in particular, has been largely unsuccessful, in part because of the rarity of many causative variants and the heterogeneity and small effect size of the causal loci. Artificially
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Metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 inhibits thalamically-driven glutamate and dopamine release in the dorsal striatum. [PDF]
Neuropharmacology, 2017The striatum plays critical roles in action control and cognition, and activity of striatal neurons is driven by glutamatergic input. Inhibition of glutamatergic inputs to projection neurons and interneurons of the striatum by presynaptic G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) stands to modulate striatal output and striatum-dependent behaviors.
Johnson KA, Mateo Y, Lovinger DM.
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Psychedelic Targeting of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 2 and Its Implications for the Treatment of Alcoholism [PDF]
Cells, 2023Alcohol abuse is a leading risk factor for the public health burden worldwide. Approved pharmacotherapies have demonstrated limited effectiveness over the last few decades in treating alcohol use disorders (AUD).
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Molecular determinants of positive allosteric modulation of the human metabotropic glutamate receptor 2. [PDF]
Br J Pharmacol, 2015The activation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 (mGlu2) reduces glutamatergic transmission in brain regions where excess excitatory signalling is implicated in disorders such as anxiety and schizophrenia. Positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) can
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Elevated level of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2/3 in the prefrontal cortex in major depression [PDF]
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 2010Clinical, postmortem and preclinical research strongly implicates dysregulation of glutamatergic neurotransmission in major depressive disorder (MDD). Recently, metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have been proposed as attractive targets for the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches against depression.
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