The G Protein-Coupled Receptors Handbook (Hardcover, 2005)

Part I. GPCRs: Structure and Function Structure-Function Relationships in G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Ligand Binding and Receptor Activation Dominique Massotte and Brigitte L. Kieffer Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Activation of Rhodopsin-Like Seven-Transmembrane Receptors Peng Huang and Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen GPCR Folding and Maturation: The Effect of Pharmacological Chaperones Ulla E. Petaja-Repo and Michel Bouvier Regulated Membrane Trafficking and Proteolysis of GPCRs James N. Hislop and Mark von Zastrow Part II. GPCR Activity and Its Regulators Heterotrimeric G Proteins and Their Effector Pathways Tracy Nguyen Hwangpo and Ravi Iyengar RGS Proteins: Orchestration of Multiple Signaling Pathways Ryan W. Richman and Maria A. Diverse-Pierluissi G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinases Lan Ma, Jingxia Gao, and Xiaoqing Chen Regulators of GPCR Activity: The Arrestins Louis M. Luttrell GPCR Interacting Proteins: Classes, Assembly, and Functions Hongyan Wang, Catherine B. Willmore, and Jia Bei Wang Part III. GPCR Dimerization/Oligomerization Biophysical and Biochemical Methods to Study GPCR Oligomerization Karen M. Kroeger, Kevin D. G. Pfleger, and Karin A. Eidne Oligomerization Domains of G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Insights Into the Structural Basis of GPCR Association Marta Filizola, Wen Guo, Jonathan A. Javitch, and Harel Weinstein Functional Complementation and the Analysis of GPCR Dimerization Graeme Milligan, Juan J. Carrillo, and Geraldine Pascal The Role of Oligomerization in G Protein-Coupled Receptor Maturation Michael M. C. Kong, Christopher H. So, Brian F. O'Dowd, and Susan R. George Receptor Oligomerization and Trafficking Selena E. Barlett and Jennifer L. Whistler Modulation of Receptor Pharmacology byG Protein-Coupled Receptor Dimerization Noura S. Abul-Husn, Achla Gupta, Lakshmi A. Devi and Ivone Gomes Part IV. Recent Developments in Drug Discovery Role of Heteromeric GPCR Interactions in Pain/Analgesia Andrew P. Smith and Nancy M. Lee Conformational Plasticity of GPCR Binding Sites: Structural Basis for Evolutionary Diversity in Ligand Recognition Xavier Deupi, Cedric Govaerts, Lei Shi, Jonathan A. Javitch, Leonardo Pardo, and Juan Ballesteros De-Orphanizing GPCRs and Drug Development Rainer K. Reinscheid and Olivier Civelli Index