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Kennedy M, Limbird L. Mutations of the alpha 2A-adrenergic receptor that eliminate detectable palmitoylation do not perturb receptor-G-protein coupling. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53056-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Movement of the retinylidene Schiff base counterion in rhodopsin by one helix turn reverses the pH dependence of the metarhodopsin I to metarhodopsin II transition. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53447-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Samanta A, Dutta S, Ali E. Modification of sulfhydryl groups of interleukin-8 (IL-8) receptor impairs binding of IL-8 and IL-8-mediated chemotactic response of human polymorphonuclear neutrophils. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53231-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Khorana HG. Two light-transducing membrane proteins: bacteriorhodopsin and the mammalian rhodopsin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:1166-71. [PMID: 8433978 PMCID: PMC45834 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.4.1166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Site-directed mutagenesis has provided insight into the mechanisms of action of bacteriorhodopsin and rhodopsin. These studies are summarized here.
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- H G Khorana
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Hara-Nishimura I, Kondo M, Nishimura M, Hara R, Hara T. Cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA for rhodopsin of the squid Todarodes pacificus. FEBS Lett 1993; 317:5-11. [PMID: 8428633 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)81480-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A cDNA for rhodopsin was isolated from a library constructed from poly(A)+RNA of the squid (Todarodes pacificus) retina. One positive clone with the longest insert of cDNA (3.1 kb) was selected by employing a PCR-amplified cDNA fragment as a probe. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA revealed a single open reading frame of 1,344 bp encoding a polypeptide (M(r)49,833), which covered a complete sequence for the squid opsin. This clone had a very long 3'-non-coding region (1.7 kb) including multiple polyadenylation signals, AATAAA, resembling the clones for Todarodes retinochrome and retinal-binding protein (RALBP). The analysis of hydropathicity demonstrated the presence of seven transmembrane spanning domains, and a possible retinal-binding site, Lys-305, was found in the 7th domain. Todarodes rhodopsin contained characteristic sequences of PPQGY repeated in the C-terminal region, as reported in Loligo and octopus rhodopsins. Structural comparison of those cephalopod rhodopsins is also discussed.
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- I Hara-Nishimura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Hannan F, Hall LM. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in invertebrates: comparisons with homologous receptors from vertebrates. EXS 1993; 63:98-145. [PMID: 8422542 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7265-2_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The pharmacology, physiology and molecular biology of invertebrate muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are compared with current knowledge concerning vertebrate muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Evidence for the existence of multiple receptor subtypes in invertebrates is examined, emphasizing what is presently known about the sensitivity of invertebrate preparations to subtype selective ligands previously defined in vertebrate studies. Other evidence for muscarinic receptor subtypes which is examined includes: heterogeneous responses to classical muscarinic ligands and evidence for coupling of invertebrate muscarinic receptors to several different classes of second messenger systems. Clues regarding possible functions for invertebrate muscarinic receptors are discussed, including evidence from both physiological studies and in situ localization studies which reveal patterns of receptor protein and mRNA expression. A detailed analysis of the structural similarities between a cloned Drosophila muscarinic receptor and vertebrate muscarinic receptors is also presented. Regions of the receptors that may be involved in ligand binding, effector coupling and receptor regulation are identified in this comparison. Future directions for invertebrate muscarinic receptor research are considered including: methods for cloning other receptor subtypes, methods for cloning homologous receptors from other species and genetic approaches for determining the physiological roles of muscarinic receptors.
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- F Hannan
- State University of New York, School of Pharmacy, Department of Biochemical Pharmacology, Buffalo 14260
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Karnik SS, Ridge KD, Bhattacharya S, Khorana HG. Palmitoylation of bovine opsin and its cysteine mutants in COS cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:40-4. [PMID: 8419942 PMCID: PMC45595 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.1.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Previously, bovine rhodopsin has been shown to be palmitoylated at cysteine residues 322 and 323. Here we report on palmitoylation of bovine opsin in COS-1 cells following expression of the synthetic wild-type opsin gene and several of its cysteine mutants in the presence of [3H]palmitic acid. Two moles of palmitic acid are introduced per wild-type opsin molecule in thioester linkages. Palmitoylation is abolished when both Cys-322 and Cys-323 are replaced by serine residues. Replacement of Cys-322 by serine prevents palmitoylation at Cys-323, whereas replacement of the latter with serine allows palmitoylation at Cys-322. Opsin mutants that evidently do not contain a Cys-110/Cys-187 disulfide bond and presumably remain in the endoplasmic reticulum are not palmitoylated. Replacement of Cys-140 or Cys-185 reduces the extent of palmitoylation of the opsin. Lack of palmitoylation at Cys-322 and/or Cys-323 does not affect 11-cis-retinal binding, absorption maximum or extinction coefficient of the chromophore, the bleaching behavior of the chromophore, or the light-dependent binding and activation of transducin. Mutants containing serine substitutions at Cys-140 or Cys-323 showed reduced light-dependent phosphorylation by rhodopsin kinase.
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- S S Karnik
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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- P A Hargrave
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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Baggiolini M, Dewald B, Moser B. Interleukin-8 and related chemotactic cytokines--CXC and CC chemokines. Adv Immunol 1993. [PMID: 8304236 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)60509-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1477] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- M Baggiolini
- Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Pisegna JR, de Weerth A, Huppi K, Wank SA. Molecular cloning of the human brain and gastric cholecystokinin receptor: structure, functional expression and chromosomal localization. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992; 189:296-303. [PMID: 1280419 PMCID: PMC6719700 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(92)91557-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The receptors for the brain and gastrointestinal peptide, cholecystokinin, can be classified into CCKA and CCKB subtypes. Having recently cloned the rat CCKB receptor, we used it's cDNA to isolate the human CCKB receptor homologue from brain and stomach which encodes a 447 amino acid protein with 90% identity to both rat CCKB and canine gastrin receptors. Northern hybridization identifies transcripts from stomach, pancreas, brain and gallbladder. The CCKB receptor gene maps to chromosome 11. Expression of the receptor cDNA in COS-7 cells was characteristic of a CCKB receptor subtype pharmacology. These data confirm that we have cloned a novel gene for the human brain and stomach CCKB receptor.
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- J R Pisegna
- Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland
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Amphibians have been employed extensively to study the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and cell biology of the visual system for decades, yet there have been no reports concerning the primary structure of amphibian visual transduction components. Thus, we have determined the entire nucleotide sequence of frog (Rana pipiens) rhodopsin cDNA, including a putative transcription start point and poly A tail, by sequence analysis of PCR products and mRNA. The open reading frame predicts an opsin of 354 residues, six residues longer than the mammalian rod opsins, containing 11 potential phosphorylation sites in the C-terminal domain. RNA blot analysis revealed two transcripts of ca. 1.7 and 3.1 kb. Frog rhodopsin exhibits approximately 85% identity to mammalian rhodopsin at the amino acid level. Sequence analysis of additional components will produce the framework from which a more detailed understanding of amphibian phototransduction can emerge.
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- S J Pittler
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
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Pan Y, Metzenberg A, Das S, Jing B, Gitschier J. Mutations in the V2 vasopressin receptor gene are associated with X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Nat Genet 1992; 2:103-6. [PMID: 1303257 DOI: 10.1038/ng1092-103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disorder in which the kidney is insensitive to the antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin. It has been proposed that the kidney-specific V2 vasopressin receptor, a G protein-coupled receptor, is defective in this disorder as both the disease and the receptor map to Xq28. We report six unique mutations in the V2 receptor gene of five unrelated NDI patients, with one patient having two mutations. The most severely affected patient has a nonsense mutation which would terminate the protein in transmembrane domain III. Other mutations include three missense mutations, a frameshift and one small in-frame deletion. These results represent one of the first examples of recessive mutations affecting a G protein-coupled receptor.
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- Y Pan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Wank SA, Pisegna JR, de Weerth A. Brain and gastrointestinal cholecystokinin receptor family: structure and functional expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:8691-5. [PMID: 1528881 PMCID: PMC49986 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.18.8691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 297] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Cholecystokinin was one of the first gastrointestinal peptides discovered in the mammalian brain. In the central nervous system there is evidence for CCKA and CCKB receptor subtypes. The CCKA receptors occur in a few localized areas of the central and peripheral nervous systems where they modulate feeding and dopamine-induced behavior. CCKB receptors occur throughout the central nervous system where they modulate anxiety, analgesia, arousal, and neuroleptic activity. We have recently purified and cloned a CCKA receptor cDNA from rat pancreas that allowed isolation of an identical cDNA from rat brain by using the polymerase chain reaction. Using low-stringency hybridization screening of cDNA libraries from rat brain and AR42-J cells, which possess large numbers of CCKB receptors, we identified previously unreported cDNAs, the sequence of which were identical in both tissues. The cDNA sequence encodes a 452-amino acid protein that is 48% identical to the CCKA receptor and contains seven transmembrane domains characteristics of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors. COS-7 cells transfected with this cDNA expressed binding sites for agonists and antagonists characteristic of a CCKB receptor subtype. We conclude that this cDNA isolated from rat brain and AR42-J cells is a receptor of the CCKB subtype and that the respective cDNAs for both CCKA and CCKB are identical in the brain and gastrointestinal system.
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- S A Wank
- Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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van Galen PJ, Stiles GL, Michaels G, Jacobson KA. Adenosine A1 and A2 receptors: structure--function relationships. Med Res Rev 1992; 12:423-71. [PMID: 1513184 PMCID: PMC3448285 DOI: 10.1002/med.2610120502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- P J van Galen
- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Mountjoy KG, Robbins LS, Mortrud MT, Cone RD. The cloning of a family of genes that encode the melanocortin receptors. Science 1992; 257:1248-51. [PMID: 1325670 DOI: 10.1126/science.1325670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1196] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) regulate pigmentation and adrenal cortical function, respectively. These peptides also have a variety of biological activities in other areas, including the brain, the pituitary, and the immune system. A complete understanding of the biological activities of these hormones requires the isolation and characterization of their corresponding receptors. The murine and human MSH receptors (MSH-Rs) and a human ACTH receptor (ACTH-R) were cloned. These receptors define a subfamily of receptors coupled to guanine nucleotide-binding proteins that may include the cannabinoid receptor.
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- K G Mountjoy
- Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201
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Winderickx J, Sanocki E, Lindsey DT, Teller DY, Motulsky AG, Deeb SS. Defective colour vision associated with a missense mutation in the human green visual pigment gene. Nat Genet 1992; 1:251-6. [PMID: 1302020 DOI: 10.1038/ng0792-251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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All red/green colour vision defects described so far have been associated with gross rearrangements within the red/green opsin gene array (Xq28). We now describe a male with severe deuteranomaly without such a rearrangement. A substitution of a highly conserved cysteine by arginine at position 203 in the green opsins presumably accounted for his colour vision defect. Surprisingly, this mutation was fairly common (2%) in the population but apparently was not always expressed. In analogy with nonexpression of some 5'green-red hybrid genes in persons with normal colour vision, we suggest that failure of manifestation occurs when the mutant gene is located at a distal (3') position among several green opsin genes. This mutation might also predispose to certain X-linked retinal dystrophies.
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- J Winderickx
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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- J Nathans
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Bird AC. Investigation of disease mechanisms in retinitis pigmentosa. OPHTHALMIC PAEDIATRICS AND GENETICS 1992; 13:57-66. [PMID: 1495768 DOI: 10.3109/13816819209087605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- A C Bird
- Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
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- M D Houslay
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, UK
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Introduction of hydroxyl-bearing amino acids causes bathochromic spectral shifts in rhodopsin. Amino acid substitutions responsible for red-green color pigment spectral tuning. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50115-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Kunz D, Gerard N, Gerard C. The human leukocyte platelet-activating factor receptor. cDNA cloning, cell surface expression, and construction of a novel epitope-bearing analog. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50394-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Characterization of a phospholipase C activity regulated by the purified Gh in reconstitution systems. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50363-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Kopin AS, Lee YM, McBride EW, Miller LJ, Lu M, Lin HY, Kolakowski LF, Beinborn M. Expression cloning and characterization of the canine parietal cell gastrin receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:3605-9. [PMID: 1373504 PMCID: PMC48917 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.8.3605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 325] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Gastrin is an important stimulant of acid secretion by gastric parietal cells and is structurally related to the peptide hormone cholecystokinin (CCK). The pharmacologic properties of the parietal cell gastrin receptor are very similar to the predominant CCK receptor in the brain, CCK-B. Neither the gastrin nor the CCK-B receptor have been cloned thus far, making it difficult to resolve whether these two receptors are distinct. We have isolated a clone encoding the canine gastrin receptor by screening a parietal cell cDNA expression library using a radioligand-binding strategy. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame encoding a 453-amino acid protein with seven putative hydrophobic transmembrane domains and significant homology with members of the beta-adrenergic family of G protein-coupled receptors. The expressed recombinant receptor shows the same binding specificity for gastrin/CCK agonists and antagonists as the canine parietal cell receptor. Gastrin-stimulated phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis and intracellular Ca2+ mobilization in COS-7 cells expressing the cloned receptor suggest second-messenger signaling through phospholipase C. Affinity labeling of the expressed receptor in COS-7 cells revealed a protein identical in size to the native parietal cell receptor. Gastrin receptor transcripts were identified by high-stringency RNA blot analysis in both parietal cells and cerebral cortex, suggesting that the gastrin and CCK-B receptors are either highly homologous or identical.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Binding, Competitive
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Line
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA/genetics
- DNA/isolation & purification
- Dogs
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Gastrins/metabolism
- Inositol Phosphates/metabolism
- Kinetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Parietal Cells, Gastric/metabolism
- Poly A/genetics
- Poly A/isolation & purification
- RNA/genetics
- RNA/isolation & purification
- RNA, Messenger
- Receptors, Cholecystokinin/genetics
- Receptors, Cholecystokinin/isolation & purification
- Receptors, Cholecystokinin/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Sincalide/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
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- A S Kopin
- Division of Gastroenterology, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111
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Savarese TM, Fraser CM. In vitro mutagenesis and the search for structure-function relationships among G protein-coupled receptors. Biochem J 1992; 283 ( Pt 1):1-19. [PMID: 1314560 PMCID: PMC1130983 DOI: 10.1042/bj2830001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 395] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- T M Savarese
- Section on Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD 20852
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Light-stable rhodopsin. II. An opsin mutant (TRP-265—-Phe) and a retinal analog with a nonisomerizable 11-cis configuration form a photostable chromophore. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50492-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Light-stable rhodopsin. I. A rhodopsin analog reconstituted with a nonisomerizable 11-cis retinal derivative. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50491-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Oprian DD. The ligand-binding domain of rhodopsin and other G protein-linked receptors. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1992; 24:211-7. [PMID: 1326517 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Rhodopsin is a member of the very large family of G protein-linked receptors. The members of this family show clear signs of evolutionary relatedness, primarily in amino acid sequence homology, topographical structure of the proteins in the membrane, and the fact that all of the receptors function through the intermediary action of a GTP-binding regulatory protein or G protein. Recently, it has become clear that the structural similarity of these receptors extends well beyond the rather crude comparison of membrane topography. Reviewed here are several studies in which site-directed mutagenesis and active-site-directed reagents were used to show that the ligand-binding pockets of these receptors are highly similar. They are similar despite the fact that the structures of their various ligands are very different.
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- D D Oprian
- Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
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We placed UAA, UAG and UGA nonsense mutations at two leucine codons, Leu205 and Leu309, in Drosophila's major rhodopsin gene, ninaE, by site-directed mutagenesis, and then created the corresponding mutants by P element-mediated transformation of a ninaE deficiency strain. In the absence of a genetic suppressor, flies harboring any of the nonsense mutations at the 309 site, but not the 205 site, show increased rhodopsin activity. Additionally, all flies with nonsense mutations at either site have better rhabdomere structure than does the ninaE deficiency strain. Construction and analysis of a 3'-deletion mutant of ninaE indicates that translational readthrough accounts for the extra photoreceptor activity of the ninaE309 alleles and that truncated opsins are responsible for the improved rhabdomere structure. The presence of leucine-inserting tRNA nonsense suppressors DtLa Su+ and DtLb Su+ in the mutant strains produced a small increase (less than 0.04%) in functional rhodopsin. The opal (UGA) suppressor derived from the DtLa tRNA gene is more efficient than the amber (UAG) or opal suppressor derived from the DtLb gene, and both DtLa and DtLb derived suppressors are more efficient at site 205 than 309.
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- T Washburn
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Nicholas J, Cameron KR, Honess RW. Herpesvirus saimiri encodes homologues of G protein-coupled receptors and cyclins. Nature 1992; 355:362-5. [PMID: 1309943 DOI: 10.1038/355362a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is a T-lymphotropic gammaherpesvirus which establishes asymptomatic infections in its natural host the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus), but which causes fatal lymphoproliferative diseases in other New World primates. Sequencing studies show HVS is closely related to the human B-lymphotropic gammaherpesvirus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). However, despite the general colinearity between the genomes of HVS and EBV, HVS contains genes not found in EBV or in the genomes of any of the other sequenced herpesviruses. We have identified two genes, occurring in a region of divergence between HVS and EBV, that have cellular homologues. One of these, ECRF3, is homologous to the genes encoding the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and cellular G protein-coupled receptor family of proteins. The other HVS gene, ECLF2, is homologous to the genes encoding cellular cyclins and to our knowledge is the first reported example of a viral cyclin. The presence of G protein-coupled receptor and cyclin homologues in HVS suggests that these genes may be important in the regulation of viral and cellular processes during productive and/or latent infection of host cells, and in particular may be of relevance in the transformation and rapid proliferation of T cells during HVS infections of hosts susceptible to HVS-induced lymphoproliferative diseases.
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- J Nicholas
- Division of Virology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, UK
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Khorana HG. Rhodopsin, photoreceptor of the rod cell. An emerging pattern for structure and function. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)48444-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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van Koppen CJ, Nathanson NM. The cysteine residue in the carboxyl-terminal domain of the m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor is not required for receptor-mediated inhibition of adenylate cyclase. J Neurochem 1991; 57:1873-7. [PMID: 1658226 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb06397.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) share with many other receptors of the guanine nucleotide-binding protein-coupled receptor family a highly conserved cysteine residue in the putative cytoplasmic carboxyl-terminal region of the protein. Because elimination of this cysteine in the beta 2-adrenergic receptor has been reported to decrease functional responsiveness, we determined if this cysteine residue is essential for mAChR-effector coupling by replacing Cys457 of the m2 mAChR with glycine and expressing wild-type and mutant receptor in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The mutant and wild-type receptors exhibited similar affinities for binding of muscarinic ligands. In addition, the mutation did not affect cell surface localization or receptor-mediated inhibition of adenylate cyclase. These results indicate that the cysteine residue in the carboxyl-terminal domain of the m2 mAChR is not required for ligand binding or mAChR-mediated inhibition of adenylate cyclase in CHO cells.
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- C J van Koppen
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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The vertebrate retina contains two kinds of visual cells: rods, responsible for twilight (scotopic) vision (black and white discrimination); and cones, responsible for daylight (photopic) vision (color discrimination). Here we attempt to explain some of their functional differences and similarities in terms of their visual pigments. In the chicken retina there are four types of single cones and a double cone; each of the single cones has its own characteristic oil droplet (red, orange, blue, or colorless) and the double cone is composed of a set of principal and accessory members, the former of which has a green-colored oil droplet. Iodopsin, the chicken red-sensitive cone visual pigment, is located at outer segments of both the red single cones and the double cones, while the other single cones and the rod contain their own visual pigments with different absorption spectra. The diversity in absorption spectra among these visual pigments is caused by the difference in interaction between chromophore (11-cis retinal) and protein moiety (opsin). However, the chromophore-binding pocket in iodopsin is similar to that in rhodopsin. The difference in absorption maxima between both pigments could be explained by the difference in distances between the protonated Schiff-bases at the chromophore-binding site and their counter ions in iodopsin and rhodopsin. Furthermore, iodopsin has a unique chloride-binding site whose chloride ion serves for the red-shift of the absorption maximum of iodopsin. Visual pigment bleaches upon absorption of light through several intermediates and finally dissociates into all-trans retinal and opsin. That the sensitivity of cones is lower than rods cannot be explained by the relative photosensitivity of iodopsin to rhodopsin, but may be understood to some extent by the short lifetime of an enzymatically active intermediate (corresponding to metarhodopsin II) produced in the photobleaching process of iodopsin. The rapid formation and decay of the meta II-intermediate of iodopsin compared with metarhodopsin II are not contradictory to the rapid generation and recovery of cone receptor potential compared with rod receptor potential. The rapid recovery of the cone receptor potential may be due to a more effective shutoff mechanism of the visual excitation, including the phosphorylation of iodopsin. The rapid dark adaptation of cones compared with rods has been explained by the rapid regeneration of iodopsin from 11-cis retinal and opsin. One of the reasons for the rapid regeneration and susceptibility to chemicals of iodopsin compared with rhodopsin may be a unique structure near the chromophore-binding site of iodopsin.
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- T Yoshizawa
- Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
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Morrison D, O'Brien P, Pepperberg D. Depalmitylation with hydroxylamine alters the functional properties of rhodopsin. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54898-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Murphy TJ, Alexander RW, Griendling KK, Runge MS, Bernstein KE. Isolation of a cDNA encoding the vascular type-1 angiotensin II receptor. Nature 1991; 351:233-6. [PMID: 2041570 DOI: 10.1038/351233a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 992] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Angiotensin II is an important effector molecule controlling blood pressure and volume in the cardiovascular system. Its importance is manifested by the efficacy of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure. Angiotensin II interacts with two pharmacologically distinct subtypes of cell-surface receptors, AT1 and AT2. AT1 receptors seem to mediate the major cardiovascular effects of angiotensin II. Here we report the isolation by expression cloning of a complementary DNA encoding a unique protein with the pharmacological specificity of a vascular AT1 receptor. Hydropathic modelling of the deduced protein suggests that it shares the seven-transmembrane-region motif with the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily. Knowledge of the AT1 receptor primary sequence should now permit structural analysis, definition of the angiotensin II receptor gene family and delineation of the contribution of AT receptors to the genetic component of hypertension.
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- T J Murphy
- Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Berson EL, Rosner B, Sandberg MA, Weigel-DiFranco C, Dryja TP. Ocular findings in patients with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and rhodopsin, proline-347-leucine. Am J Ophthalmol 1991; 111:614-23. [PMID: 2021172 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)73708-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We studied the ocular findings in eight unrelated patients with a form of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and the same cytosine-to-thymine transition in the second nucleotide of codon 347 of the rhodopsin gene. This mutation, detected in leukocyte DNA, corresponds to a substitution of leucine for proline in amino acid 347 of the rhodopsin protein, and, therefore, we designated this form of retinitis pigmentosa as rhodopsin, proline-347-leucine. On average, these patients had significantly smaller visual field areas and smaller electroretinogram amplitudes than 140 unrelated patients of comparable age with dominant retinitis pigmentosa without this mutation. The findings in eight relatives with this mutation from three of these families are presented to provide examples of the variability that exists in the clinical severity of this disease.
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- E L Berson
- Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degeneration, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston 02114
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Mapping of the amino acids in membrane-embedded helices that interact with the retinal chromophore in bovine rhodopsin. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)64317-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hall MD, Hoon MA, Ryba NJ, Pottinger JD, Keen JN, Saibil HR, Findlay JB. Molecular cloning and primary structure of squid (Loligo forbesi) rhodopsin, a phospholipase C-directed G-protein-linked receptor. Biochem J 1991; 274 ( Pt 1):35-40. [PMID: 1900420 PMCID: PMC1149916 DOI: 10.1042/bj2740035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The sequence of squid (Loligo forbesi) rhodopsin was determined by protein and cDNA sequencing. The protein has close similarity to octopus rhodopsin, having an N-terminal region (residues 1-340) which resembles other guanine-nucleotide-binding protein (G-protein)-linked receptors and a repetitive proline-rich C-terminus (residues 340-452). Comparison of the sequence of squid rhodopsin with those of other members of the G-protein-linked receptor superfamily reveals features which we predict to have both structural and functional importance.
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- M D Hall
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, U.K
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Berson EL, Sandberg MA, Dryja TP. Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa with rhodopsin, valine-345-methionine. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1991; 89:117-28; discussion 128-30. [PMID: 1808803 PMCID: PMC1298619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rhodopsin gene mutations appear to cause some forms of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. In the family described, the mutation called rhodopsin, Val345Met segregated perfectly with the disease. All affected individuals had abnormal ERGs; the two oldest members of this family had more loss of function than the two youngest members. Some intra-familial variability existed as an older member showed larger visual fields and ERG amplitudes than a younger member. This mutation was not seen in 106 control subjects nor in any other patients yet described with other rhodopsin gene mutations. Patients so far studied with rhodopsin, Val345Met, have smaller 0.5-Hz full-field ERG amplitudes, on average, than those with Pro23His or Thr58Arg and larger ERG amplitudes than those with Pro347Leu or Pro347Ser. These forms of retinitis pigmentosa can now be detected through analysis of leukocyte DNA.
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- E L Berson
- Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston
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Roth NS, Lefkowitz RJ, Caron MG. Structure and function of the adrenergic receptor family. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1991; 308:223-38. [PMID: 1801586 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-6015-5_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- N S Roth
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Yokoyama R, Yokoyama S. Convergent evolution of the red- and green-like visual pigment genes in fish, Astyanax fasciatus, and human. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:9315-8. [PMID: 2123554 PMCID: PMC55155 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.23.9315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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We have isolated and sequenced genes from the blind cave fish, Astyanax fasciatus, that are homologous to the human red and green visual pigment genes. The data strongly suggest that, like human, these fish have one red-like visual pigment gene and multiple green-like visual pigment genes. By comparing the DNA sequences of the human and fish visual pigment genes and knowing their phylogenetic relationship, one can infer the direction of amino acid substitutions in the red and green visual pigments. The results indicate that the red pigments in human and fish evolved from the green pigment independently by identical amino acid substitutions in only a few key positions.
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- R Yokoyama
- Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61801
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Hart AC, Krämer H, Van Vactor DL, Paidhungat M, Zipursky SL. Induction of cell fate in the Drosophila retina: the bride of sevenless protein is predicted to contain a large extracellular domain and seven transmembrane segments. Genes Dev 1990; 4:1835-47. [PMID: 2276620 DOI: 10.1101/gad.4.11.1835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Previous genetic mosaic studies established that expression of the Drosophila bride of sevenless (boss) gene is required in photoreceptor neuron R8 for the development of photoreceptor neuron R7. This led to the proposal that boss encodes or regulates an R7-specific inductive cue. We have identified the boss gene based on small deletions in mutant alleles and sequenced both cDNAs and corresponding genomic regions. One P element and three X-ray-induced boss alleles show different deletions in the gene ranging in size from 2 to 23 bp, each causing frameshifts leading to premature termination of translation. The boss gene encodes a protein of 896 amino acids with a putative amino-terminal signal sequence, a large extracellular region of 498 amino acids, and seven potential transmembrane domains followed by a carboxy-terminal cytoplasmic tail of 115 amino acids. The putative membrane localization of the boss protein is consistent with a model in which direct interaction between the boss and sevenless proteins specifies R7 cell fate. Another model in which the boss protein functions as a receptor is proposed based on its similarity to the G protein-linked family of membrane receptors.
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- A C Hart
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1737
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Long D, Cohen GH, Muggeridge MI, Eisenberg RJ. Cysteine mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein D exhibit temperature-sensitive properties in structure and function. J Virol 1990; 64:5542-52. [PMID: 2170686 PMCID: PMC248606 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.11.5542-5552.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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We previously constructed seven mutations in the gene for glycoprotein D (gD) of herpes simplex virus type 1 in which the codon for one of the cysteine residues was replaced by a serine codon. Each of the mutant genes was cloned into a eucaryotic expression vector, and the proteins were transiently expressed in mammalian cells. We found that alteration of any of the first six cysteine residues had profound effects on protein conformation and oligosaccharide processing. In this report, we show that five of the mutant proteins exhibit temperature-sensitive differences in such properties as aggregation, antigenic conformation, oligosaccharide processing, and transport to the cell surface. Using a complementation assay, we have now assessed the ability of the mutant proteins to function in virus infection. This assay tests the ability of the mutant proteins expressed from transfected plasmids to rescue production of infectious virions of a gD-minus virus, F-gD beta, in Vero cells. Two mutant proteins, Cys-2 (Cys-106 to Ser) and Cys-4 (Cys-127 to Ser), were able to complement F-gD beta at 31.5 degrees C but not at 37 degrees C. The rescued viruses, designated F-gD beta(Cys-2) and F-gD beta(Cys-4), were neutralized as efficiently as wild-type virus by anti-gD monoclonal antibodies, indicating that gD was present in the virion envelope in a functional form. Both F-gD beta(Cys-2) and F-gD beta(Cys-4) functioned normally in a penetration assay. However, the infectivity of these viruses was markedly reduced compared with that of the wild type when they were preincubated at temperatures above 37 degrees C. The results suggest that mutations involving Cys-106 or Cys-127 in gD-1 confer a temperature-sensitive phenotype on herpes simplex virus. These and other properties of the cysteine-to-serine mutants allowed us to predict a disulfide bonding pattern for gD.
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- D Long
- Department of Microbiology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6003
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Kuwata O, Imamoto Y, Okano T, Kokame K, Kojima D, Matsumoto H, Morodome A, Fukada Y, Shichida Y, Yasuda K. The primary structure of iodopsin, a chicken red-sensitive cone pigment. FEBS Lett 1990; 272:128-32. [PMID: 2226824 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80465-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A purified iodopsin was digested by CNBr or several proteolytic enzymes into fragments, the amino acid sequences of which were determined. A partial sequence of the C-terminal fragment was utilized for synthesizing an oligonucleotide probe which identified the iodopsin cDNA (1339 bases). The deduced amino acid sequence (362 residues) had 80%, 42%, or 43% homology to that of human red-sensitive cone pigment, cattle or chicken rhodospin, respectively. Although the hydropathy profile implies that iodopsin, like rhodopsin, has 7 transmembrane alpha-helical segments, iodopsin may have a hydrophilic pocket near the seventh segment on the basis of the unexpected cleavages in the middle of the segment VII by chymotrypsin under nondenaturing conditions.
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- O Kuwata
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
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Franke RR, König B, Sakmar TP, Khorana HG, Hofmann KP. Rhodopsin mutants that bind but fail to activate transducin. Science 1990; 250:123-5. [PMID: 2218504 DOI: 10.1126/science.2218504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Rhodopsin is a member of a family of receptors that contain seven transmembrane helices and are coupled to G proteins. The nature of the interactions between rhodopsin mutants and the G protein, transduction (Gt), was investigated by flash photolysis in order to monitor directly Gt binding and dissociation. Three mutant opsins with alterations in their cytoplasmic loops bound 11-cis-retinal to yield pigments with native rhodopsin absorption spectra, but they failed to stimulate the guanosine triphosphatase activity of Gt. The opsin mutations included reversal of a charged pair conserved in all G protein-coupled receptors at the cytoplasmic border of the third transmembrane helix (mutant CD1), replacement of 13 amino acids in the second cytoplasmic loop (mutant CD2), and deletion of 13 amino acids from the third cytoplasmic loop (mutant EF1). Whereas mutant CD1 failed to bind Gt, mutants CD2 and EF1 showed normal Gt binding but failed to release Gt in the presence of guanosine triphosphate. Therefore, it appears that at least the second and third cytoplasmic loops of rhodopsin are required for activation of bound Gt.
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- R R Franke
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Karnik SS, Khorana HG. Assembly of functional rhodopsin requires a disulfide bond between cysteine residues 110 and 187. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)38195-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Huber A, Smith DP, Zuker CS, Paulsen R. Opsin of Calliphora peripheral photoreceptors R1-6. Homology with Drosophila Rh1 and posttranslational processing. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)38249-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Sokoloff P, Giros B, Martres MP, Bouthenet ML, Schwartz JC. Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel dopamine receptor (D3) as a target for neuroleptics. Nature 1990; 347:146-51. [PMID: 1975644 DOI: 10.1038/347146a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2115] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A dopamine receptor has been characterized which differs in its pharmacology and signalling system from the D1 or D2 receptor and represents both an autoreceptor and a postsynaptic receptor. The D3 receptor is localized to limbic areas of the brain, which are associated with cognitive, emotional and endocrine functions. It seems to mediate some of the effects of antipsychotic drugs and drugs used against Parkinson's disease, that were previously thought to interact only with D2 receptors.
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- P Sokoloff
- Unité de Neurobiologie et Pharmacologie (U. 109) de l'INSERM, Paris, France
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Matsuda LA, Lolait SJ, Brownstein MJ, Young AC, Bonner TI. Structure of a cannabinoid receptor and functional expression of the cloned cDNA. Nature 1990; 346:561-4. [PMID: 2165569 DOI: 10.1038/346561a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3533] [Impact Index Per Article: 103.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Marijuana and many of its constituent cannabinoids influence the central nervous system (CNS) in a complex and dose-dependent manner. Although CNS depression and analgesia are well documented effects of the cannabinoids, the mechanisms responsible for these and other cannabinoid-induced effects are not so far known. The hydrophobic nature of these substances has suggested that cannabinoids resemble anaesthetic agents in their action, that is, they nonspecifically disrupt cellular membranes. Recent evidence, however, has supported a mechanism involving a G protein-coupled receptor found in brain and neural cell lines, and which inhibits adenylate cyclase activity in a dose-dependent, stereoselective and pertussis toxin-sensitive manner. Also, the receptor is more responsive to psychoactive cannabinoids than to non-psychoactive cannabinoids. Here we report the cloning and expression of a complementary DNA that encodes a G protein-coupled receptor with all of these properties. Its messenger RNA is found in cell lines and regions of the brain that have cannabinoid receptors. These findings suggest that this protein is involved in cannabinoid-induced CNS effects (including alterations in mood and cognition) experienced by users of marijuana.
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- L A Matsuda
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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