Biology 2382B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Resting Potential, Neurodegeneration, Opsin

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Drug companies 60% go drugs are for. Gpcrs aka 7 transmembrane receptors (or 7tm), or serpentine (because it looks like a snake) The majority of g-protein coupled receptors are involved in smell. Gpcrs: a very small amount of ligand is needed to produce a large biological response. 800-1000 types gpcr (so many hits on pubmed) But we don"t know so many of ligands. Orphan receptors proteins that have the 7-transmembrane domain but have unknown ligands. Ligands are diverse: not simply proteins oating around in body, e. g. photon of light can trigger gpcr! G protein-coupled receptor do not dimerize (rtks dimerize) Active g signal transducing protein in the presence of the ligand, g protein will work on the effector; bound to gtp. Effector enzyme produce second messengers; this is the ampli cation step. G subunit the only g protein in the signal cascade that binds gtp; enzyme i. e. gtpase will cleave gtp into gdp and pi.

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