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How GPCRs use phosphorylation codes for arrestin recruitment

23 August 2017|

DEER spectroscopy by Ned van Eps in the Ernst lab was used to validate the crystal structure of the phosphorylated G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) rhodopsin in complex with arrestin. EPR measurements confirmed the location of the C-terminal tail of rhodopsin on a arrestin binding surface in a non-crystallographic environment. GPCRs are among the most important cell surface receptors controlling nearly all of our physiology. Termination of G-protein-mediated signalling by an […]

Davidson and Maxwell help discover off-switches for CRISPR

31 January 2017|

 

Featured on the cover of Cell, Biochemistry’s Dr. Alan Davidson and Dr. Karen Maxwell helped to discover how to turn off CRISPR. Read the full story.

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New gene map reveals cancer’s Achilles’ heel

7 December 2015|

A team of Toronto researchers, led by Dr. Jason Moffat, with a contribution from Dr. Stephane Angers, have switched off, one by one, almost 18,000 genes—90 per cent of the entire human genome—to find the genes that are essential for cell survival. These results were published in the latest issue of Cell.

Read more about this research here: http://news.utoronto.ca/new-gene-map-reveals-cancers-achilles-heel

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Reinhart Reithmeier and post-doc Xiaoyun Bai publish article in Cell

31 July 2015|

A Perspective article entitled “A Call for Systematic Research on Solute Carriers” was published today (July 30th) in Cell with Reinhart Reithmeier and his post-doc Xiaoyun Bai as co-authors.

This human family of over 400 genes plays an essential role in ion and pH homeostasis, nutrient uptake and waste removal.  Mutations in these genes are linked to a plethora of human diseases and SLCs are potential drug targets.  Yet, SLCs […]