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4217
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2061

Overview

Vsevolod Katritch is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 95 publications, and Neuroscience, contributing 43 publications. Within these broader areas, their work is concentrated in subfields including Molecular Biology (91 publications), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (41 publications), Organic Chemistry (11 publications), Pharmacology (11 publications), and Computational Theory and Mathematics (9 publications).

The main topics addressed in Katritch's research include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (86 publications), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (58 publications), Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects (40 publications), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (18 publications), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (14 publications), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 publications), and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 publications).

Katritch has contributed to a number of scientific articles published in prominent venues. Notable publication outlets include UNC Libraries (16 publications), Nature Communications (9 publications), Nature (7 publications), Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (5 publications), and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications).

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Katritch include:

  • Computational approaches streamlining drug discovery, 2023, Nature
  • Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds, 2021, Nature
  • Structural basis of the activation of a metabotropic GABA receptor, 2020, Nature
  • Structural basis of GABA reuptake inhibition, 2022, Nature
  • Structure-based design of bitopic ligands for the µ-opioid receptor, 2022, Nature

Katritch collaborates frequently with a number of researchers. Coauthors with whom they have published extensively include Saheem A. Zaidi (23 joint publications), Bryan L. Roth (22 publications), Jordy Homing Lam (20 publications), Anastasiia Sadybekov (18 publications), and Susruta Majumdar (18 publications).

Best Publications

  • Structures of the CXCR4 chemokine GPCR with small-molecule and cyclic peptide antagonists.

    Beili Wu;Ellen Y. T. Chien;Clifford D. Mol;Gustavo Fenalti

  • Structure of the human dopamine d3 receptor in complex with a d2/d3 selective antagonist.

    Ellen Y. T. Chien;Wei Liu;Qiang Zhao;Vsevolod Katritch

  • Structure-Function of the G Protein–Coupled Receptor Superfamily

    Vsevolod Katritch;Vadim Cherezov;Raymond C. Stevens

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

    Huixian Wu;Daniel Wacker;Mauro Mileni;Vsevolod Katritch

  • Structural Basis for Allosteric Regulation of GPCRs by Sodium Ions

    Wei Liu;Eugene Chun;Aaron A. Thompson;Pavel Chubukov

  • Structure of the human histamine H1 receptor complex with doxepin.

    Tatsuro Shimamura;Tatsuro Shimamura;Mitsunori Shiroishi;Mitsunori Shiroishi;Simone Weyand;Hirokazu Tsujimoto

  • Structure of an Agonist-Bound Human A2A Adenosine Receptor

    Fei Xu;Huixian Wu;Vsevolod Katritch;Gye Won Han

  • Structural Features for Functional Selectivity at Serotonin Receptors

    Daniel Wacker;Chong Wang;Vsevolod Katritch;Gye Won Han

  • Biased Signaling Pathways in β2-Adrenergic Receptor Characterized by 19F-NMR

    Jeffrey J. Liu;Reto Horst;Vsevolod Katritch;Raymond C. Stevens

  • Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser

    Yanyong Kang;X. Edward Zhou;Xiang Gao;Yuanzheng He

  • Lipidic cubic phase injector facilitates membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography

    Uwe Weierstall;Daniel James;Chong Wang;Thomas A. White

  • Structure of a Class C GPCR Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1 Bound to an Allosteric Modulator

    Huixian Wu;Chong Wang;Karen J. Gregory;Karen J. Gregory;Gye Won Han

  • Structural Basis for Molecular Recognition at Serotonin Receptors

    Chong Wang;Yi Jiang;Yi Jiang;Jinming Ma;Jinming Ma;Huixian Wu

  • Structure of the nociceptin/orphanin FQ receptor in complex with a peptide mimetic.

    Aaron A. Thompson;Wei-Wei Liu;Eugene Chun;Vsevolod Katritch

  • Diversity and Modularity of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structures

    Vsevolod Katritch;Vadim Cherezov;Raymond C. Stevens

  • Molecular control of δ-opioid receptor signalling

    Gustavo Fenalti;Patrick M. Giguere;Vsevolod Katritch;Xi Ping Huang

  • Structure of the human smoothened receptor bound to an antitumour agent

    Chong Wang;Huixian Wu;Vsevolod Katritch;Gye Won Han

  • Serial femtosecond crystallography of G protein-coupled receptors.

    Wei Liu;Daniel Wacker;Cornelius Gati;Gye Won Han

  • Generic GPCR residue numbers – aligning topology maps while minding the gaps

    Vignir Isberg;Chris de Graaf;Andrea Bortolato;Vadim Cherezov

  • Allosteric sodium in class A GPCR signaling

    Vsevolod Katritch;Gustavo Fenalti;Enrique E. Abola;Bryan L. Roth

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Vadim Cherezov
Vadim Cherezov University of Southern California
Gye Won Han
Gye Won Han University of Southern California
Wei Liu
Wei Liu Medical College of Wisconsin
Bryan L. Roth
Bryan L. Roth University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ruben Abagyan
Ruben Abagyan University of California, San Diego
Xi Ping Huang
Xi Ping Huang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Kenneth A. Jacobson National Institutes of Health
Andrzej Stasiak
Andrzej Stasiak University of Lausanne
Zhan-Guo Gao
Zhan-Guo Gao National Institutes of Health

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