Publications by Horst Vogel | EPFL Graph Search

Identifying Potent Compounds Using Pairwise Consensus Methods

Molecular docking is a widely used method within the in silico compound screening process of modern drug discovery. The accuracy of this method for predicting high-affinity small-molecule binders for a target protein from a large chemical library can be su ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Enhancing Multifunctional Drug Screening via Artificial Intelligence

Horst Vogel

Computational drug screening is of fundamental importance in early-stage drug discovery. The current computational methods predict compound affinities to their targets based on docking or pharmacophore (PH4) hypotheses. Here, we develop Alpha-Pharm3D, a ve ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Rational Design Biased Compounds against μ-Opioid Receptor

Horst Vogel

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Exploring Conformational Transitions in Biased and Balanced Ligand Binding of GLP-1R

Horst Vogel

The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R), which belongs to the class B1 G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family, is an important target for treatment of metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes and obesity. The growing interest in GLP-1R-based ...

MDPI AG2025

Structural heterogeneity of the ion and lipid channel TMEM16F

Horst Vogel

Transmembrane protein 16 F (TMEM16F) is a Ca2+-activated homodimer which functions as an ion channel and a phospholipid scramblase. Despite the availability of several TMEM16F cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures, the mechanism of activation ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Structure of tetrameric forms of the serotonin-gated 5-HT3A receptor ion channel

Horst Vogel, Menno Berend Tol

Multimeric membrane proteins are produced in the endoplasmic reticulum and transported to their target membranes which, for ion channels, is typically the plasma membrane. Despite the availability of many fully assembled channel structures, our understandi ...

SPRINGERNATURE2024

Cryo-EM structures of ClC-2 chloride channel reveal the blocking mechanism of its specific inhibitor AK-42

Horst Vogel

ClC-2 transports chloride ions across plasma membranes and plays critical roles in cellular homeostasis. Its dysfunction is involved in diseases including leukodystrophy and primary aldosteronism. AK-42 was recently reported as a specific inhibitor of ClC- ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Method and system for determining intracellular mediators' activity

Horst Vogel, Philippe Renaud, Thamani Dahoun, Margaux Catherine Marie Duchamp, Marc Brugarolas Campillos

A method for determining the presence of a molecule coupled to the cytoplasmic side of a cellular membrane is disclosed. The method is implemented in a microfluidic setting and is particularly suitable for determining the presence and/or the activity of a ...

2022

Parameter Recovery in Frequency-Domain Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Resolution of the Prototropic Forms of 5-Carboxyfluorescein in the Physiological pH Range (vol 10, pg 325, 2000)

Horst Vogel

2022

Geosciences Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2025–2028 by the Swiss Geosciences Community

Horst Vogel, Lukas Baumgartner, Athanasios Nenes, Othmar Müntener

This community roadmap presents an integrative approach including the most urgent infrastructure requests for the future development of geosciences in Switzerland. It recommends to strengthen the multidisciplinary nature of the geosciences by putting all a ...

Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)2021

Asymmetric opening of the homopentameric 5-HT3A serotonin receptor in lipid bilayers

Horst Vogel, Shuguang Yuan

Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) of the Cys-loop receptor family are key players in fast signal transduction throughout the nervous system. They have been shown to be modulated by the lipid environment, however the underlying mechanism is not ...

Nature Research2021

The role of metal ions in G protein-coupled receptor signalling and drug discovery

Horst Vogel, Shuguang Yuan, Xueying Wang

Metal ions, such as Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and Zn2+, are highly abundant in biological systems. For many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), metal ions, especially Na+, have been found to stabilize the receptors' inactivate state preventing receptor activation. ...

WILEY2021

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function

Rudolf Hovius, Horst Vogel

5 HT receptors expressed throughout the human body are targets for established therapeutics and various drugs in development. Their diversity of structure and function reflects the important role 5-HT receptors play in physiologic and pathophysiological pr ...

AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS2021

The G protein coupled receptor CXCR4 designed by the QTY code becomes more hydrophilic and retains cell signaling activity

Horst Vogel, Horst Pick

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital for diverse biological functions, including vision, smell, and aging. They are involved in a wide range of diseases, and are among the most important targets of medicinal drugs. Tools that facilitate GPCR studi ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Enhancing the Signaling of GPCRs via Orthosteric Ions

Horst Vogel, Shuguang Yuan

G protein-coupled receptors play essential roles in cellular processes such as neuronal signaling, vision, olfaction, tasting, and metabolism. As GPCRs are the most important drug targets, understanding their interactions with ligands is of utmost importan ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Advancing Drug Discovery via Artificial Intelligence

Horst Vogel, Thamani Dahoun, Shuguang Yuan

Drug discovery and development are among the most important translational science activities that contribute to human health and wellbeing. However, the development of a new drug is a very complex, expensive, and long process which typically costs 2.6 bill ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON2019

Computational modeling of the olfactory receptor Olfr73 suggests a molecular basis for low potency of olfactory receptor-activating compounds

Horst Vogel, Horst Pick, Thamani Dahoun, Shuguang Yuan, Marc Brugarolas Campillos

The mammalian olfactory system uses hundreds of specialized G-protein-coupled olfactory receptors (ORs) to discriminate a nearly unlimited number of odorants. Cognate agonists of most ORs have not yet been identified and potential non-olfactory processes m ...

Springer2019

New Binding Sites, New Opportunities for GPCR Drug Discovery

Horst Vogel, Thamani Dahoun, Shuguang Yuan, Yifan Li, Yen-Huan Li

Many central biological events rely on protein-ligand interactions. The identification and characterization of protein-binding sites for ligands are crucial for the understanding of functions of both endogenous ligands and synthetic drug molecules. G prote ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON2019

Single-Vesicle Assays Using Liposomes and Cell-Derived Vesicles: From Modeling Complex Membrane Processes to Synthetic Biology and Biomedical Applications

Horst Vogel, Horst Pick, Ana Catarina Rodrigues Alves

The plasma membrane is of central importance for defining the closed volume of cells in contradistinction to the extracellular environment. The plasma membrane not only serves as a boundary, but it also mediates the exchange of physical and chemical inform ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Exploring a new ligand binding site of G protein-coupled receptors

Horst Vogel, Shuguang Yuan, Junxiong Wang

2018