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SUBMITTER: Xu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8089101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Xinyu X Kaindl Jonas J Clark Mary J MJ Hübner Harald H Hirata Kunio K Sunahara Roger K RK Gmeiner Peter P Kobilka Brian K BK Liu Xiangyu X
Cell research 20201022 5
Beta adrenergic receptors (βARs) mediate physiologic responses to the catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine released by the sympathetic nervous system. While the hormone epinephrine binds β<sub>1</sub>AR and β<sub>2</sub>AR with similar affinity, the smaller neurotransmitter norepinephrine is approximately tenfold selective for the β<sub>1</sub>AR. To understand the structural basis for this physiologically important selectivity, we solved the crystal structures of the human β<sub>1</sub ...[more]