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SUBMITTER: Jeanneteau F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC524745 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeanneteau Freddy F Guillin Olivier O Diaz Jorge J Griffon Nathalie N Sokoloff Pierre P
Molecular biology of the cell 20040908 11
Pleiotropic G proteins are essential for the action of hormones and neurotransmitters and are activated by stimulation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), which initiates heterotrimer dissociation of the G protein, exchange of GDP for GTP on its Galpha subunit and activation of effector proteins. Regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) proteins regulate this cascade and can be recruited to the membrane upon GPCR activation. Direct functional interaction between RGS and GPCR has been hypothesiz ...[more]