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Open Access
Peer-reviewed
Research Article
Structured water molecules drive activation and G protein selectivity in the GPR174 receptor
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Ying-Jun Dong ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Jun Dong, Kun Xi, Ya-Zhi Zhang, Jian-Heng Xue, Dan-Dan Shen
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Kun Xi ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Jun Dong, Kun Xi, Ya-Zhi Zhang, Jian-Heng Xue, Dan-Dan Shen
Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Ya-Zhi Zhang ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Jun Dong, Kun Xi, Ya-Zhi Zhang, Jian-Heng Xue, Dan-Dan Shen
Roles Investigation, Visualization
Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China, Department of Cardiology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Jian-Heng Xue ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Jun Dong, Kun Xi, Ya-Zhi Zhang, Jian-Heng Xue, Dan-Dan Shen
Roles Investigation
Affiliation Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Dan-Dan Shen ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Jun Dong, Kun Xi, Ya-Zhi Zhang, Jian-Heng Xue, Dan-Dan Shen
Roles Investigation
Affiliations Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Center for Structural Pharmacology and Therapeutics Development, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Shao-Kun Zang,
Roles Investigation
Affiliation Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Ruozhu Zhao,
Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Hai Qi,
Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Chunyou Mao ,
Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: maochunyou@zju.edu.cn (CM); wweiwei@zju.edu.cn (W-WW); zhang_yan@zju.edu.cn (YZ)
Affiliations Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Center for Structural Pharmacology and Therapeutics Development, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Wei-Wei Wang ,
Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: maochunyou@zju.edu.cn (CM); wweiwei@zju.edu.cn (W-WW); zhang_yan@zju.edu.cn (YZ)
Affiliations Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Department of Cardiology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Yan Zhang
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: maochunyou@zju.edu.cn (CM); wweiwei@zju.edu.cn (W-WW); zhang_yan@zju.edu.cn (YZ)
Affiliations Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Research and Brain-Machine Integration, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, School of Pharmacy, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
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Structured water molecules drive activation and G protein selectivity in the GPR174 receptor
- Ying-Jun Dong,
- Kun Xi,
- Ya-Zhi Zhang,
- Jian-Heng Xue,
- Dan-Dan Shen,
- Shao-Kun Zang,
- Ruozhu Zhao,
- Hai Qi,
- Chunyou Mao,
- Wei-Wei Wang
- Published: May 7, 2026
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003447