Recent Advances in Orphan GPCR Structure, Signaling and Pharmacology
Friday May 19, 2023
1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Eastern Time (ET)
Chair(s) :
John Allen
University of Texas Medical Branch
John Allen
University of Texas Medical Branch
Although G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are successful therapeutic targets for 35% of FDA-approved medications, roughly 120 remain orphan receptors with poorly understood physiology and pharmacology. This session will bring together experts working on the structure, signaling, physiology and novel pharmacology of orphan GPCRs. Speakers will discuss their recent research on orphan receptors expressed in the nervous system including GPR158, GPR151, GPR52 and MRGPRX4. Research will include descriptions of high-resolution orphan receptor structures, unexpected receptor signaling mechanisms, novel agonist/antagonist modes-of-action, neurophysiology and drug discovery. These studies are providing new pharmacological tools to better define the function of these understudied GPCRs, and opening new directions for both basic and translational pharmacology.
Speakers
John Allen
- University of Texas Medical Branch
Kirill Martemyanov
- UF Scripps Biomedical Research
Biology, Function and Ligand Discovery for GPR158
Innes Ibanez-Tallon
- Rockefeller University
Habenular Neural Signaling and Behavioral Functions of the Orphan Receptor GPR151
John Allen
- University of Texas Medical Branch
Signaling and Discovery of Allosteric Agonists for the Self-activating Striatal Orphan GPR52
Luca Franchini
- Univ of Rochester
Enhanced cAMP-based assay for GPCR deorphanization
Bryan Roth
- Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Structures and Novel Pharmacology for the Human Itch Receptor MRGPRX4
John Allen
- University of Texas Medical Branch