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Overview

Bryan L. Roth is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research output covers a broad spectrum of subfields, including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, organic chemistry, clinical psychology, and pharmacology.

Their main topics of work encompass receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, psychedelics and drug studies, as well as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Xi-Ping Huang
  • Brian K. Shoichet
  • Jeffrey F. DiBerto
  • B. Krumm
  • Yongfeng Liu

They have published extensively in several venues, with notable frequent publication sources such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Nature

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bryan L. Roth include:

  • "TRUPATH, an open-source biosensor platform for interrogating the GPCR transducerome," 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor," 2020, Cell
  • "Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds," 2021, Nature
  • "Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Virtual discovery of melatonin receptor ligands to modulate circadian rhythms," 2020, Nature

Best Publications

  • A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing.

    David E. Gordon;Gwendolyn M. Jang;Mehdi Bouhaddou;Jiewei Xu

  • Relating protein pharmacology by ligand chemistry

    Michael J. Keiser;Bryan L. Roth;Bryan L. Roth;Blaine N. Armbruster;Paul R Ernsberger

  • The Expanded Biology of Serotonin

    Miles Berger;John A. Gray;Bryan L. Roth

  • Evolving the lock to fit the key to create a family of G protein-coupled receptors potently activated by an inert ligand

    Blaine N. Armbruster;Xiang Li;Mark H. Pausch;Stefan Herlitze

  • DREADDs for Neuroscientists.

    Bryan L. Roth

  • Morphometric evidence for neuronal and glial prefrontal cell pathology in major depression

    Grazyna Rajkowska;José J Miguel-Hidalgo;Jinrong Wei;Ginny Dilley

  • Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs

    Michael J. Keiser;Vincent Setola;John J. Irwin;Christian Laggner

  • Rapid, reversible activation of AgRP neurons drives feeding behavior in mice

    Michael J. Krashes;Shuichi Koda;Chian Ping Ye;Sarah C. Rogan

  • Magic shotguns versus magic bullets: selectively non-selective drugs for mood disorders and schizophrenia

    Bryan L. Roth;Douglas J. Sheffler;Wesley K. Kroeze

  • Functional Selectivity and Classical Concepts of Quantitative Pharmacology

    Jonathan D. Urban;William P. Clarke;Mark Von Zastrow;David E. Nichols

  • Aripiprazole, a novel atypical antipsychotic drug with a unique and robust pharmacology.

    David A. Shapiro;Sean Renock;Elaine Arrington;Louis A. Chiodo

  • Remote control of neuronal activity in transgenic mice expressing evolved G protein-coupled receptors.

    Georgia M. Alexander;Sarah C. Rogan;Atheir I. Abbas;Blaine N. Armbruster

  • Parkin-deficient Mice Exhibit Nigrostriatal Deficits but Not Loss of Dopaminergic Neurons

    Matthew S. Goldberg;Sheila M. Fleming;James J. Palacino;Carlos Cepeda

  • Structure of the human κ-opioid receptor in complex with JDTic

    Huixian Wu;Daniel Wacker;Mauro Mileni;Vsevolod Katritch

  • H1-Histamine Receptor Affinity Predicts Short-Term Weight Gain for Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs

    Wesley Kars Kroeze;Sandra J. Hufeisen;Beth A. Popadak;Sean M. Renock

  • Structure-based discovery of opioid analgesics with reduced side effects

    Aashish Manglik;Henry Lin;Dipendra K. Aryal;John D. McCorvy

  • Salvinorin A: A potent naturally occurring nonnitrogenous κ opioid selective agonist

    Bryan L. Roth;Karen Baner;Richard Westkaemper;Daniel Siebert

  • Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes

    Jiankun Lyu;Sheng Wang;Trent E. Balius;Isha Singh

  • Binding of typical and atypical antipsychotic agents to 5-hydroxytryptamine-6 and 5-hydroxytryptamine-7 receptors.

    B L Roth;S C Craigo;M S Choudhary;A Uluer

  • Automated design of ligands to polypharmacological profiles

    Jérémy Besnard;Gian Filippo Ruda;Vincent Setola;Keren Abecassis

  • The promise and peril of chemical probes.

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;James E. Audia;Christopher Austin;Jonathan Baell

Frequent Co-Authors

Xi Ping Huang
Xi Ping Huang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard A. Glennon
Richard A. Glennon Virginia Commonwealth University
Brian K. Shoichet
Brian K. Shoichet University of California, San Francisco
Jian Jin
Jian Jin Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Vsevolod Katritch
Vsevolod Katritch University of Southern California
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Jordan K. Zjawiony
Jordan K. Zjawiony University of Mississippi
Vadim Cherezov
Vadim Cherezov University of Southern California
William C. Wetsel
William C. Wetsel Duke University
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Herbert Y. Meltzer Northwestern University

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