Professor MERITXELL CANALS's Outputs (3)

Key phosphorylation sites for robust β-arrestin2 binding at the MOR revisited (2024)
Journal Article
Underwood, O., Fritzwanker, S., Glenn, J., Blum, N. K., Batista-Gondin, A., Drube, J., Hoffmann, C., Briddon, S. J., Schulz, S., & Canals, M. (2024). Key phosphorylation sites for robust β-arrestin2 binding at the MOR revisited. Communications Biology, 7, Article 933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06571-1

Desensitisation of the mu-opioid receptor (MOR) is proposed to underlie the initiation of opioid analgesic tolerance and previous work has shown that agonist-induced phosphorylation of the MOR C-tail contributes to this desensitisation. Moreover, pho... Read More about Key phosphorylation sites for robust β-arrestin2 binding at the MOR revisited.

Enantioselective de novo synthesis of 14-hydroxy-6-oxomorphinans (2024)
Journal Article
Moore, J. C., Modell, L., Glenn, J. R., Jones, K. D., Argent, S. P., Lane, J. R., Canals, M., & Lam, H. W. (2024). Enantioselective de novo synthesis of 14-hydroxy-6-oxomorphinans. Chemical Communications, 60(47), 6007-6010. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc01788a

The enantioselective de novo synthesis of pharmacologically important 14-hydroxy-6-oxomorphinans is described. 4,5-Desoxynaltrexone and 4,5-desoxynaloxone were prepared using this route and their biological activities against the opioid receptors wer... Read More about Enantioselective de novo synthesis of 14-hydroxy-6-oxomorphinans.

In Vitro Functional Profiling of Fentanyl and Nitazene Analogs at the μ-Opioid Receptor Reveals High Efficacy for Gi Protein Signaling (2024)
Journal Article
Tsai, M.-H. M., Chen, L., Baumann, M. H., Canals, M., Javitch, J. A., Lane, J. R., & Shi, L. (2024). In Vitro Functional Profiling of Fentanyl and Nitazene Analogs at the μ-Opioid Receptor Reveals High Efficacy for Gi Protein Signaling. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 15(4), 854-867. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00750

Novel synthetic opioids (NSOs), including both fentanyl and non-fentanyl analogs that act as μ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonists, are associated with serious intoxication and fatal overdose. Previous studies proposed that G-protein-biased MOR agonists a... Read More about In Vitro Functional Profiling of Fentanyl and Nitazene Analogs at the μ-Opioid Receptor Reveals High Efficacy for Gi Protein Signaling.