PMID- 38429134 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20240503 LR - 20240504 IS - 1873-3735 (Electronic) IS - 0165-6147 (Linking) VI - 45 IP - 5 DP - 2024 May TI - VMAT structures reveal exciting targets for drug development. PG - 385-387 LID - S0165-6147(24)00031-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.tips.2024.02.004 [doi] AB - Vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT)-2 has a crucial role in the neurotransmission of biogenic amines. Recently, Dalton et al., Pidathala et al., Wu et al., and Wang et al. individually reported cryo-electron microscopy (EM) structures of human VMAT2, offering opportunities for developing improved therapeutics and deep insights into the functioning of this protein. CI - Copyright (c) 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Schuldiner, Shimon AU - Schuldiner S AD - Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Silberman Bldg. 1-513, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. Electronic address: shimon.schuldiner@mail.huji.ac.il. FAU - Forrest, Lucy R AU - Forrest LR AD - Computational Structural Biology Section, 35 Convent Drive, Room 3D-991, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8202, USA. Electronic address: lucy.forrest@nih.gov. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20240229 PL - England TA - Trends Pharmacol Sci JT - Trends in pharmacological sciences JID - 7906158 RN - 0 (Vesicular Monoamine Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (SLC18A2 protein, human) SB - IM MH - *Vesicular Monoamine Transport Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism MH - Humans MH - *Drug Development MH - *Cryoelectron Microscopy MH - Animals OTO - NOTNLM OT - cryo-EM structure OT - neurotransmission OT - neurotransmitter transporter OT - synaptic vesicles COIS- Declaration of interests None declared by authors. EDAT- 2024/03/02 10:44 MHDA- 2024/05/04 11:50 CRDT- 2024/03/01 21:54 PHST- 2023/12/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2024/01/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2024/02/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/05/04 11:50 [medline] PHST- 2024/03/02 10:44 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/03/01 21:54 [entrez] AID - S0165-6147(24)00031-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.tips.2024.02.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2024 May;45(5):385-387. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2024.02.004. Epub 2024 Feb 29.