Scientists fixate on Ric-8 to understand trafficking of popular drug receptor targets
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
Half the drugs used today target a single class of proteins – and now scientists have identified an important molecular player critical to the proper workings of those proteins critical to our health. What you see, what you smell, how you feel – molecules known as G-protein coupled receptors and their prime targets, G proteins, are key to those and many other processes that are ubiquitous in our bodies, and Ric-8 plays a vital role.