• Antidepressant drugs act by directly binding to TRKB neurotrophin receptors 

      Casarotto, Plinio C.; Girych, Mykhailo; Fred, Senem M.; Kovaleva, Vera; Moliner, Rafael; Enkavi, Giray; Biojone, Caroline; Cannarozzo, Cecilia; Sahu, Madhusmita Pryiadrashini; Kaurinkoski, Katja; Brunello, Cecilia A.; Steinzeig, Anna; Winkel, Frederike; Patil, Sudarshan; Vestring, Stefan; Serchov, Tsvetan; Diniz, Cassiano R.A.F.; Laukkanen, Liina; Cardon, Iseline; Antila, Hanna; Rog, Tomasz; Piepponen, Timo Petteri; Bramham, Clive Raymond Evjen; Normann, Claus; Lauri, Sari E.; Saarma, Mart; Vattulainen, Ilpo; Castrén, Eero (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      It is unclear how binding of antidepressant drugs to their targets gives rise to the clinical antidepressant effect. We discovered that the transmembrane domain of tyrosine kinase receptor 2 (TRKB), the brain-derived ...