Constitutive activation and allosteric mechanisms underlying Gi/Gq signaling bias in SUCNR1 revealed by AlphaFold-based modeling and enhanced sampling simulations
Aslihan Shenol, Jacob Emil Petersen, Michael Lückmann, Thomas M. Frimurer, James Andrew McCammon, Thue Walter Schwartz, Wen Ma
This study uses AlphaFold and simulations to show human SUCNR1 spontaneously adopts active conformations and exhibits constitutive signaling, while murine SUCNR1 requires agonist for activation.
bioRxiv · Jun 8, 2025 · PreprintBiophysics