Visualizing polyphenol docking to gut receptor T2R46 (IMAGE)

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Visualizing polyphenol docking to gut receptor T2R46

Caption

Researchers from SIT Japan used advanced molecular docking simulations to illustrate how polyphenols, especially flavonoids, bind to the T2R46 receptor in the gut.

Credit

Naomi Osakabe from SIT, Japan

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