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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-7-11
pubmed:abstractText
The human lutropin receptor (hLHR) plays a pivotal role in reproductive endocrinology. A number of naturally occurring mutations of the hLHR have been identified that cause the receptor to become constitutively active. To gain further insights into the structural basis for the activation of the hLHR by activating mutations, we chose to examine a particularly strong constitutively activating mutation of this receptor, L457R, in which a leucine that is highly conserved among rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors in helix 3 has been substituted with arginine. Using both disruptive as well as reciprocal mutagenesis strategies, our studies demonstrate that the ability of L457R to stabilize an active form of the hLHR is because of the formation of a salt bridge between the replacing amino acid and Asp-578 in helix 6. Such a lock between the transmembrane portions of helices 3 and 6 is concurrent with weakening the connections between the cytosolic ends of the same helices, including the interaction found in the wild-type receptor between Arg-464, of the (E/D)R(Y/W) motif, and Asp-564. This structural effect is properly marked by the increase in the solvent accessibility of selected amino acids at the cytosolic interfaces between helices 3 and 6. The integrity of the conserved amino acids Asn-615 and Asn-619 in helix 7 is required for the transfer of the structural change from the activating mutation site to the cytosolic interface between helices 3 and 6. The results of in vitro and computational experiments further suggest that the structural trigger of the constitutive activity of the L457R mutant may also be responsible for its lack of hormone responsiveness.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
280
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
26169-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-8-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Salts, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Arginine, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Leucine, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Asparagine, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Chorionic Gonadotropin, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Rhodopsin, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Heterozygote, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Cytosol, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Software, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Hydrogen Bonding, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:15908694-Amino Acid Motifs
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