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SUBMITTER: Lodowski DT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3075965 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lodowski David T DT Palczewski Krzysztof K Miyagi Masaru M
Biochemistry 20101015 44
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are activated by ligand binding, allowing extracellular signals to be efficiently transmitted through the membrane to the G protein recognition site, 40 Å away. Utilizing His residues found spaced throughout the GPCR, rhodopsin, we used His hydrogen-deuterium exchange (His-HDX) to monitor long-time scale structural rearrangements previously inaccessible by other means. The half-lives of His-HDX indicate clear differences in the solvent accessibility of three H ...[more]