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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Chem. 2020 Jun 18;63(13):7033–7051. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00366

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Mechanism of action of mitofusin activators. A. Computational model of PPI-regulated conformational changes in human MFN2. (inset) Published pharmacophore model described by E. Gavathiotis17, 18 positing specific amino acid interactions of the green MFN2-derived activator minipeptide. B. A prototype small molecule mitofusin activator, 1, was developed that mimics characteristics of critical amino acid side chains of the mitofusin activating minipeptide.18