Andrea Gawrylewski | Aug 1, 2008 | 9 min read
Hooked on a Hunt Arguably the biggest fishing expedition in the history of cell biology is drawing to a close. What have we caught? By Andrea Gawrylewski Related Articles 1 The receptor showed a remarkable homology to the seven-transmembrane receptor rhodopsin, involved in nighttime light perception, and the only receptor known at the time to act through a G protein. The new beta 2AR genomic sequence suggested that a new family of receptors might ex