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Screening Next-Generation Fluorine-19 Probe And Preparation Of Yeast-Derived G Proteins For Gpcr Conformation And Dynamics Study, Wenjie Zhao
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
GPCR regulates numerous diverse physiological processes relevant to diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's diseases, and several central nervous system disorders and targets proteins in signaling pathways. It has created nearly 200 billion profits from its derivative drugs in 2018. There are near 400 structures of over 70 GPCRs have been resolved by X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and NMR spectroscopy. One of the current challenges that remain in the conformational transition and dynamics study using NMR spectroscopy is to obtain sufficient quantities of the G proteins and GPCRs. Pichia pastoris has shown its tremendous promise in expressing the GPCRs in a high yield, …