@article{6654415179a14d278c70737ada04a2fc,
title = "Structure of the human smoothened receptor bound to an antitumour agent",
abstract = "The smoothened (SMO) receptor, a key signal transducer in the hedgehog signalling pathway, is responsible for the maintenance of normal embryonic development and is implicated in carcinogenesis. It is classified as a class frizzled (class F) G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), although the canonical hedgehog signalling pathway involves the GLI transcription factors and the sequence similarity with class A GPCRs is less than 10%. Here we report the crystal structure of the transmembrane domain of the human SMO receptor bound to the small-molecule antagonist LY2940680 at 2.5 {\AA} resolution. Although the SMO receptor shares the seven-transmembrane helical fold, most of the conserved motifs for class A GPCRs are absent, and the structure reveals an unusually complex arrangement of long extracellular loops stabilized by four disulphide bonds. The ligand binds at the extracellular end of the seven-transmembrane- helix bundle and forms extensive contacts with the loops.",
author = "Chong Wang and Huixian Wu and Vsevolod Katritch and Han, {Gye Won} and Huang, {Xi Ping} and Wei Liu and Siu, {Fai Yiu} and Roth, {Bryan L.} and Vadim Cherezov and Stevens, {Raymond C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund grant P50 GM073197 for technology development (V.C. and R.C.S.), PSI:Biology grant U54 GM094618 for biological studies and structure production (target GPCR-131) (V.K., V.C. and R.C.S.); F32 DK088392 (F.Y.S.); R01 MH61887, U19 MH82441, R01 DA27170 and the NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program (X.-P.H. and B.L.R.) and the Michael Hooker Chair of Pharmacology (B.L.R.). We thank J. Velasquez for help with molecular biology, T. Trinh and M. Chu for help with baculovirus expression, K. Kadyshevskaya for assistance with figure preparation, A. Walker for assistance with manuscript preparation, D. Wacker for assistance with SAD data collection and processing and J. Smith, R. Fischetti and N. Sanishvili for assistance in development and use of the minibeam and beamtime at beamline 23-ID at the Advanced Photon Source, which is supported by National Cancer Institute grant Y1-CO-1020 and National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant Y1-GM-1104.",
year = "2013",
month = may,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1038/nature12167",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "497",
pages = "338--343",
journal = "Nature",
issn = "0028-0836",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "7449",
}