Scientist’s favourite drug target: G-protein Coupled Receptors

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Katie is a PhD student at Imperial College London studying G-protein Coupled Receptor signalling and structure. She is also a science communicator with her Instagram account that aims to make science more accessible and to show a more transparent view of what doing a PhD in science is really like.

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Microscopic image of cell. (above)

The image shows a cell, taken with a confocal microscope. This technique allows you to visualise your protein of interest using fluorescently tagged antibody. In this case, the blue is the nucleus of the cell and the green is G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) of interest. Lots of drugs target GPCRs so it is important that we understand how they work.