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Kensuke Sakamoto

2 papers in the library · 145 citations · publishing 2024-2026

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No evidence for direct physical interaction of 5-HT 2A -mGluR2 receptors in vitro or in vivo

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) June 30, 2026 Blake A Fordyce, Yi-Ting Chiu, Nicholas A. Wright et al.

Abstract Activation of mGluR2 (metabotropic glutamate receptor 2), the primary presynaptic autoreceptor for glutamate in the brain, is well established to attenuate the psychedelics-mediated behavioral and electrophysiological effects. However, the mechanisms responsible for these actions are controversial. The two competing mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon...

AlphaFold2 structures guide prospective ligand discovery

Science May 16, 2024 Jiankun Lyu, Nicholas J. Kapolka, Ryan H. Gumpper et al. 145 citations

AlphaFold2 (AF2) models have had wide impact but mixed success in retrospective ligand recognition. We prospectively docked large libraries against unrefined AF2 models of the σ 2 and serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptors, testing hundreds of new molecules and comparing results with those obtained from docking against the experimental structures. Hit rates were high and similar for the experimental...