Neurochemistry articles within Nature

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• Article | 18 March 2024

  Structural insights into vesicular monoamine storage and drug interactions

  Monoamines and neurotoxicants share a binding pocket in VMAT1 featuring polar sites for specificity and a wrist-and-fist shape for versatility, and monoamine enrichment in storage vesicles arises from dominant import via favoured lumenal-open transition of VMAT1 and protonation-precluded binding during its cytoplasmic-open transition.

  • Jin Ye
  • , Huaping Chen
  •  & Weikai Li

• Letter | 16 May 2012

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

  The crystal structure of the human nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide receptor in complex with the peptide mimetic antagonist compound-24 is determined, with potential importance for the development of new therapeutic agents.

  • Aaron A. Thompson
  • , Wei Liu
  •  & Raymond C. Stevens

• News | 30 August 2011

  Friendly bacteria cheer up anxious mice

  Probiotics affect behaviour and brain chemistry.

  • Nicola Jones

• News | 13 March 2011

  Rats wake up for behavioural research

  Tiny imaging device allows scans of animals while they are awake.

  • Tiffany O'Callaghan