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1349156

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-5-22
pubmed:abstractText
Deletions, substitutions, or mutations of the rat TSH receptor extracellular domain between residues 20 and 107 (all residue numbers are determined by counting from the methionine start site) have been made by site-directed mutagenesis of receptor cDNA. After transfection in Cos-7 cells, constructs were evaluated for their ability to bind [125I]TSH or respond to TSH and thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAbs) from Graves' patients in assays measuring cAMP levels of the transfected cells. Assay results were compared to results from Cos-7 cells transfected with wild-type receptor constructs or vector alone. We identify threonine-40 as a TSAb-specific site whose mutation to asparagine, but not alanine, reduces TSAb activity 10-fold, but only minimally affects TSH-increased cAMP levels. We show that thyroid-stimulating blocking antibodies (TSBAbs), which block TSH or TSAb activity and are found in hypothyroid patients with idiopathic myxedema, continue to inhibit TSH-stimulated cAMP levels when threonine-40 is mutated to asparagine or alanine, suggesting that TSBAbs interact with different TSH receptor epitopes than the TSAb autoantibodies in Graves' patients. This is confirmed by the demonstration that these TSBAbs interact with high affinity TSH-binding sites previously identified at tyrosine-385 or at residues 295-306 of the extracellular domain of the TSH receptor. This is evidenced by a loss in the ability of TSBAbs to inhibit TSAb activity when these residues are mutated or deleted, respectively. Since the TSAb and TSBAb epitopes are in regions of the extracellular domain of the TSH receptor that have no homology in gonadotropin receptors, these data explain at least in part the organ-specific nature of TSH receptor autoantibodies in autoimmune thyroid disease. Data are additionally provided which indicate that residues 30-37 and 42-45, which flank the TSAb epitope at threonine-40, appear to be ligand interaction sites more important for high affinity TSH binding than for the ability of TSH to increase cAMP levels and that cysteine-41 is critical for TSH receptor conformation and expression on the surface of the cell. Thus, despite unchanged maximal values for TSH-increased cAMP levels, substitution of residues 42-45 or deletion of residues 30-37 results in receptors, which, by comparison to wild-type constructs, exhibit significantly worsened Kd values for TSH binding than EC50 values for TSH- or TSAb-increased cAMP activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0888-8809
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
168-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Alanine, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Asparagine, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Autoantibodies, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Binding, Competitive, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Graves Disease, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Immunoglobulins, Thyroid-Stimulating, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Myxedema, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Receptors, Gonadotropin, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Receptors, Thyrotropin, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Thyroid Gland, pubmed-meshheading:1349156-Transfection
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of separate determinants on the thyrotropin receptor reactive with Graves' thyroid-stimulating antibodies and with thyroid-stimulating blocking antibodies in idiopathic myxedema: these determinants have no homologous sequence on gonadotropin receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Cell Regulation Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't