EU-funded scientists decode proteings vital for new drug development
An EU-funded research team, working with scientists from Stanford University in the US and the European synchrotron radiation facility in Grenoble, has mapped the structure of a protein element that plays a crucial role in spreading diseases around the body.
An EU-funded research team, working with scientists from Stanford University in the US and the European synchrotron radiation facility in Grenoble, has mapped the structure of a protein element that plays a crucial role in spreading diseases around the body.
This recombinant G protein-coupled receptor is a "potentially very important target for future medicines" development, because of this biological function, said a European Commission note.
The EU executive has now also announced it will spend Euro 11m on each of two new projects investigating membrane proteins, one probing the structure of several membrane superfamilies and the other so-called Cys-loop receptors, protein units identified as targets for numerous drugs.