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SUBMITTER: Fenalti G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3931418 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fenalti Gustavo G Giguere Patrick M PM Katritch Vsevolod V Huang Xi-Ping XP Thompson Aaron A AA Cherezov Vadim V Roth Bryan L BL Stevens Raymond C RC
Nature 20140112 7487
Opioids represent widely prescribed and abused medications, although their signal transduction mechanisms are not well understood. Here we present the 1.8 Å high-resolution crystal structure of the human δ-opioid receptor (δ-OR), revealing the presence and fundamental role of a sodium ion in mediating allosteric control of receptor functional selectivity and constitutive activity. The distinctive δ-OR sodium ion site architecture is centrally located in a polar interaction network in the seven-t ...[more]