G Protein Coupled Receptors: understanding how our body responds to signals

• Autor: Gonzales Gil, Patricia
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2012
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/7444
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/quimica/article/view/7444
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for their studies of G protein coupled receptors. These receptors are involved in cell-cell and long-distance signaling in our organisms. Moreover, they are so important for most physiological processes in human beings that practically half of our medications act through them. Studying these receptors at a molecular level is an extremely complex task but today, through the work of these two researchers, we have gained a better understanding of the mechanisms by which these receptors operate