Rajab et al. study the dynamics of closure of ligand binding domains (LBD) of the three major ionotropic glutamate receptor subtypes. They find pronounced sub-millisecond fluctuations in the apo state of LBDs from all three sub-types and reveal a pathway of allosteric communication in LBD dynamics across the dimerization interface
- Suhaila Rajab
- Leah Bismin
- Hannes Neuweiler