Angiotensin II type 1 or AT1R (IMAGE)

City of Hope

Angiotensin II type 1 or AT1R

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Allosteric communication (shown as pipelines) spreads all around the protein structure, revealing multiple binding sites that can be harnessed for drug design.

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Wijnand J.C. van der Velden, Ph.D., co-first author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in computational and quantitative medicine at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope.

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