Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Development

Structure, dynamics and lipid interactions of serotonin receptors: excitements and challenges

This review explains serotonin receptors as membrane proteins whose function depends on receptor structure, motion, ligand binding, and the surrounding lipid environment. For a receptor-focused reading list, it gives readers the background needed to understand why psychedelic pharmacology is more than a simple 5-HT2A agonist story.

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  • Sarkar, P.
  • Mozumder, S.
  • Bej, A.

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Biophysical Reviews
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This review is useful because it moves serotonin receptors out of a simple ligand-receptor frame and into the membrane environment that shapes their behaviour. That matters for psychedelic pharmacology, since it helps explain why 5-HT2A effects cannot be reduced to agonism alone, and why structure, dynamics and lipid interactions all need to be in view.

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