Potential Rett Drug Binding to Its Target (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Potential Rett Drug Binding to Its Target

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X-ray crystallography shows at the atomic level how Tonks' experimental drug for Rett syndrome, called CPT157633, binds to its target, the enzyme PTP1B, which helps regulate a key metabolic signaling cascade.

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Tonks Lab, CSHL

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