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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
42
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-13
pubmed:abstractText
Recent studies have revealed that G-protein-coupled receptors contain a putative cytoplasmic helical domain, helix 8. Leukotriene B4 (LTB4) receptor 1 derivatives with truncated or mutated helix 8 showed much higher LTB4 binding than wild-type (WT) receptors. Similar to the WT receptor, LTB4 promoted guanosine 5'-3-O-(thio)triphosphate (GTPgammaS) binding in these mutants. Unlike the WT receptor, however, the addition of GTPgammaS did not inhibit LTB4 binding to the mutant receptors. Scatchard analyses revealed that mutants maintained high affinity for LTB4, even in the presence of excess GTPgammaS. Consistently, mutant receptors showed a more prolonged Ca2+ mobilization and cellular metabolic activation than the WT receptor. From mutational studies and three-dimensional modeling based on the structure of bovine rhodopsin, we conclude that the helix 8 of LTB4 receptor 1 plays an important role in the conformational change of the receptor to the low affinity state after G-protein activation, possibly by sensing the status of coupling Galpha subunits as GTP-bound.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
278
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
41500-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate), pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Guanosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Microscopy, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Receptors, Leukotriene B4, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Rhodopsin, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12902330-Transfection
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Helix 8 of the leukotriene B4 receptor is required for the conformational change to the low affinity state after G-protein activation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't