Juxtamembrane regions in the third intracellular loop of the thyrotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 are important for coupling to Gq

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Buck, F
Wang, W
Harder, S
Brathwaite, C
Bruhn, TO
Gershengorn, MC
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[1] Cornell Univ, Weill Med Coll, Dept Med, New York, NY 10021 USA
[2] Cornell Univ, Grad Sch Med Sci, New York, NY 10021 USA
[3] Univ Hamburg, Hosp Eppendorf, Inst Zellbiochem & Klin Neurobiol, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany
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10.1210/en.141.10.3717
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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Juxtamembrane residues in the putative third intracellular (I3) loops of a number of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been shown to be important for coupling to G proteins. According to standard hydropathy analysis, the I3 loop of the mouse TRH receptor type 1 (mTRH-R1) is composed of 51 amino acids from position-213 to position-263. We constructed deletion and site-specific I3 loop TRH-R mutants and studied their binding and TRH-stimulated signaling activities. As expected, the effects of these mutations on TRH binding were small (less than 5-fold decreases in affinity). No effect on TRH-stimulated signaling activity was found in a mutant receptor in which the I3 loop was shortened to 16 amino acids by deleting residues from Asp-226 to Ser-260. In contrast, mutants with deletions from Asp-222 to Ser-260 or from Asp-226 to Gln-263 exhibited reduced TRH-stimulated signaling. In the region near transmembrane helix 6, single site-specific substitution of either Arg-261 or Lys-262 by neutral glutamine had little effect on signaling, but mutant TRH-Rs that were substituted by glutamine at both basic residues exhibited reduced TRH-stimulated activity. The reduced signaling activity of this doubly substituted mutant was reversed by over expressing the alpha subunit of Gq. These data demonstrate that the juxtamembrane regions in the TRH-R I3 loop are important for coupling to Gq.
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