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H. E. Xu

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Open access Sep 2026

β-arrestin1 directly engages Gαs to sustain endosomal GPCR signaling

β-arrestin1 acts as a positive regulator that holds Gαs in a signaling-competent state, providing a unifying structural basis for sustained endosomal GPCR signaling.

Qian He, Qing-Ning Yuan, Xin-Heng He et al. · 0 citations
Review Oct 2026

Molecular Pharmacology of Dopamine Receptors: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Implications.

Dopamine receptors (DRs) mediate central and peripheral dopaminergic signaling and remain major therapeutic targets in movement disorders, psychiatric disease, and endocrine dysfunction. Despite decades of clinical use, existing DR-directed therapies still suffer from limited subtype selectivity, pathway-nonspecific en...

You-Wen Zhuang, H. E. Xu · 0 citations
Review Open access Aug 2026

Arrestins as programmable integrators of GPCR signaling: structural microstates, spatiotemporal logic, and therapeutic control

Recent structural, biochemical, and physiological insights are synthesized to outline how arrestins decode regulatory inputs into signaling outcomes and how this knowledge enables the development of next-generation, structure-guided GPCR therapeutics.

Qian He, Li-Hua Zhao, H. E. Xu · 1 citation
Open access Sep 2026

Structure based discovery of antipsychotic-like TAAR1 agonists

Fourteen TAAR1 agonists emerge with high brain exposure and potencies, with one compound showing potency comparable to the investigational drug ulotaront and two compounds exhibiting even greater potency, at levels sufficient for behavioral studies.

Si-Jie Huang, Heng Liu, Yu-Jin Wu et al. · 0 citations
Sep 2026

Structural basis for small-molecule agonism at GCGR and GIPR via a conserved intracellular allosteric site.

Findings reveal a conserved intracellular allosteric activation mechanism across multiple class B GPCRs and identify SIM1 and its analogs as valuable chemical tools for investigating receptor-specific intracellular allosteric regulation and G protein-preferential signaling.

Qian He, Shan Hong, Wen Hu et al. · 0 citations
Open access Jul 2026

Molecular principles for graded activation of dopamine D1 receptor

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) signal across a continuum of activation states, yet how ligands encode distinct signaling efficacies remains poorly understood. Here, we define the molecular mechanism underlying graded activation of the dopamine D1 receptor (D1R), a major therapeutic target for neuropsychiatric diso...

Xinyue Zhang, Yu Zheng, Heng Liu et al. · 0 citations

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