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SUBMITTER: Homan KT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4301174 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Homan Kristoff T KT Tesmer John J G JJ
ACS chemical biology 20140714 1
Small molecules that inhibit the protein kinase A, G, and C (AGC) family of serine/threonine kinases can exert profound effects on cell homeostasis and thereby regulate fundamental processes such as heart rate, blood pressure, and metabolism, but there is not yet a clinically approved drug in the United States selective for a member of this family. One subfamily of AGC kinases, the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) kinases (GRKs), initiates the desensitization of active GPCRs. Of these, GRK2 has ...[more]