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Baumgartner R, Berg M, Matic L, Polyzos KP, Forteza MJ, Hjorth SA, Schwartz TW, Paulsson-Berne G, Hansson GK, Hedin U, Ketelhuth DFJ. Evidence that a deviation in the kynurenine pathway aggravates atherosclerotic disease in humans. J Intern Med 2021; 289:53-68. [PMID: 32794238 DOI: 10.1111/joim.13142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND The metabolism of tryptophan (Trp) along the kynurenine pathway has been shown to carry strong immunoregulatory properties. Several experimental studies indicate that this pathway is a major regulator of vascular inflammation and influences atherogenesis. Knowledge of the role of this pathway in human atherosclerosis remains incomplete. OBJECTIVES In this study, we performed a multiplatform analysis of tissue samples, in vitro and in vivo functional assays to elucidate the potential role of the kynurenine pathway in human atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS Comparison of transcriptomic data from carotid plaques and control arteries revealed an upregulation of enzymes within the quinolinic branch of the kynurenine pathway in the disease state, whilst the branch leading to the formation of kynurenic acid (KynA) was downregulated. Further analyses indicated that local inflammatory responses are closely tied to the deviation of the kynurenine pathway in the vascular wall. Analysis of cerebrovascular symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis data showed that the downregulation of KynA branch enzymes and reduced KynA production were associated with an increased probability of patients to undergo surgery due to an unstable disease. In vitro, we showed that KynA-mediated signalling through aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a major regulator of human macrophage activation. Using a mouse model of peritoneal inflammation, we showed that KynA inhibits leukocyte recruitment. CONCLUSIONS We have found that a deviation in the kynurenine pathway is associated with an increased probability of developing symptomatic unstable atherosclerotic disease. Our study suggests that KynA-mediated signalling through AhR is an important mechanism involved in the regulation of vascular inflammation.
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- R Baumgartner
- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Vascular Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Section for Metabolic Receptology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Metabolic Receptology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Vascular Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- From the, Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Müller TD, Finan B, Bloom SR, D'Alessio D, Drucker DJ, Flatt PR, Fritsche A, Gribble F, Grill HJ, Habener JF, Holst JJ, Langhans W, Meier JJ, Nauck MA, Perez-Tilve D, Pocai A, Reimann F, Sandoval DA, Schwartz TW, Seeley RJ, Stemmer K, Tang-Christensen M, Woods SC, DiMarchi RD, Tschöp MH. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1). Mol Metab 2019; 30:72-130. [PMID: 31767182 PMCID: PMC6812410 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2019.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 769] [Impact Index Per Article: 153.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a multifaceted hormone with broad pharmacological potential. Among the numerous metabolic effects of GLP-1 are the glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion, decrease of gastric emptying, inhibition of food intake, increase of natriuresis and diuresis, and modulation of rodent β-cell proliferation. GLP-1 also has cardio- and neuroprotective effects, decreases inflammation and apoptosis, and has implications for learning and memory, reward behavior, and palatability. Biochemically modified for enhanced potency and sustained action, GLP-1 receptor agonists are successfully in clinical use for the treatment of type-2 diabetes, and several GLP-1-based pharmacotherapies are in clinical evaluation for the treatment of obesity. SCOPE OF REVIEW In this review, we provide a detailed overview on the multifaceted nature of GLP-1 and its pharmacology and discuss its therapeutic implications on various diseases. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Since its discovery, GLP-1 has emerged as a pleiotropic hormone with a myriad of metabolic functions that go well beyond its classical identification as an incretin hormone. The numerous beneficial effects of GLP-1 render this hormone an interesting candidate for the development of pharmacotherapies to treat obesity, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders.
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- T D Müller
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany; Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Eberhard Karls University Hospitals and Clinics, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Novo Nordisk Research Center Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- The Department of Medicine, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, M5G1X5, Canada
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- SAAD Centre for Pharmacy & Diabetes, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany; Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Metabolic Research Laboratories and Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Physiology and Behavior Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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- Diabetes Division, St Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Diabetes Center Bochum-Hattingen, St Josef Hospital (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati-College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Cardiovascular & ImmunoMetabolism, Janssen Research & Development, Welsh and McKean Roads, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA
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- Metabolic Research Laboratories and Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, DL-2200, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Obesity Research, Global Drug Discovery, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Research Center Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany; Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany
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Hassing HA, Engelstoft MS, Sichlau RM, Madsen AN, Rehfeld JF, Pedersen J, Jones RM, Holst JJ, Schwartz TW, Rosenkilde MM, Hansen HS. Oral 2-oleyl glyceryl ether improves glucose tolerance in mice through the GPR119 receptor. Biofactors 2016; 42:665-673. [PMID: 27297962 DOI: 10.1002/biof.1303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Revised: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
The intestinal G protein-coupled receptor GPR119 is a novel metabolic target involving glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-derived insulin-regulated glucose homeostasis. Endogenous and diet-derived lipids, including N-acylethanolamines and 2-monoacylglycerols (2-MAG) activate GPR119. The purpose of this work is to evaluate whether 2-oleoyl glycerol (2-OG) improves glucose tolerance through GPR119, using wild type (WT) and GPR 119 knock out (KO) mice. We here show that GPR119 is essential for 2-OG-mediated release of GLP-1 and CCK from GLUTag cells, since a GPR119 specific antagonist completely abolished the hormone release. Similarly, in isolated primary colonic crypt cultures from WT mice, GPR119 was required for 2-OG-stimulated GLP-1 release while there was no response in crypts from KO mice. In vivo, gavage with 2-oleyl glyceryl ether ((2-OG ether), a stable 2-OG analog with a potency of 5.3 µM for GPR119 with respect to cAMP formation as compared to 2.3 µM for 2-OG), significantly (P < 0.05) improved glucose clearance in WT littermates, but not in GPR119 KO mice. Finally, deletion of GPR119 in mice resulted in lower glucagon levels, whereas the levels of insulin and GIP were unchanged. In the present study we show that 2-OG stimulates GLP-1 secretion through GPR119 activation in vitro, and that fat-derived 2-MAGs are potent candidates for mediating fat-induced GLP-1 release through GPR119 in vivo. © 2016 BioFactors, 42(6):665-673, 2016.
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- H A Hassing
- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Endocrinology Research Section, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Arena Pharmaceutical Inc, San Diego, CA, 92121, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Endocrinology Research Section, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section for Translational Physiology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Thieme V, Jolly N, Madsen AN, Bellmann-Sickert K, Schwartz TW, Holst B, Cox HM, Beck-Sickinger AG. High molecular weight PEGylation of human pancreatic polypeptide at position 22 improves stability and reduces food intake in mice. Br J Pharmacol 2016; 173:3208-3221. [PMID: 27545829 DOI: 10.1111/bph.13582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2015] [Revised: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Human pancreatic polypeptide (hPP) is known to suppress appetite and food intake, thereby representing a potential therapeutic approach against obesity and associated metabolic disorders. The aim of this study was to improve hPP stability by covalent PEGylation with diverse molecular weight polyethylene glycols (PEGs) at two positions using promising lead structures while maintaining target activity. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Modified peptides were synthesized by combined solid-phase and solution-phase peptide synthesis. Their potency was investigated in constitutively expressing human epithelial cells and isolated human colonic mucosa as well as receptor-transfected artificial cell lines. Human blood plasma and porcine liver homogenates were used to examine the in vitro stability of the analogues. The most promising variants were injected s.c. in C57BL/6JRj mice to monitor fasting-induced food intake and bioavailability. KEY RESULTS In human epithelia and colonic mucosal preparations, activity of the modified hPP peptides depended on the core sequence and latency of the peptides was related to PEG size. Peptides modified with a 22 kDa PEG (PEG22) remained intact in blood plasma and on incubation with liver homogenates for more than 96 h. Finally, hPP2-36 , [K22 (PEG22)]hPP2-36 and [K22 (PEG22),Q34 ]hPP significantly reduced cumulative food intake in mice over 16 h after s.c. administration. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Modification with PEG22 at position 22 stabilizes hPP significantly while extending its biological activities and could be used in drug development prospectively.
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- V Thieme
- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, Institute of Biochemistry, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, Institute of Biochemistry, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, UK
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- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, Institute of Biochemistry, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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Engelstoft MS, Schwartz TW. Opposite Regulation of Ghrelin and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 by Metabolite G-Protein-Coupled Receptors. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2016; 27:665-675. [PMID: 27474997 DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2016.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2016] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Gut hormones send information about incoming nutrients to the rest of the body and thereby control many aspects of metabolism. The secretion of ghrelin and glucagon-like protein (GLP)-1, two hormones with opposite secretory patterns and opposite actions on multiple targets, is controlled by a limited number of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs); half of which recognize and bind dietary nutrient metabolites, metabolites generated by gut microbiota, and metabolites of the host's intermediary metabolism. Most metabolite GPCRs controlling ghrelin secretion are inhibitory, whereas all metabolite receptors controlling GLP-1 secretion are stimulatory. This dichotomy in metabolite sensor function, which is obtained through a combination of differential expression and cell-dependent signaling bias, offers pharmacological targets to stimulate GLP-1 and inhibit ghrelin through the same mechanism.
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- M S Engelstoft
- Metabolic Receptology, NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark; Danish Diabetes Academy, 5000 Odense, Denmark
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- Metabolic Receptology, NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Engelstoft MS, Norn C, Hauge M, Holliday ND, Elster L, Lehmann J, Jones RM, Frimurer TM, Schwartz TW. Structural basis for constitutive activity and agonist-induced activation of the enteroendocrine fat sensor GPR119. Br J Pharmacol 2015; 171:5774-89. [PMID: 25117266 DOI: 10.1111/bph.12877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 08/04/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE GPR119 is a Gαs-coupled 7TM receptor activated by endogenous lipids such as oleoylethanolamide (OEA) and by the dietary triglyceride metabolite 2-monoacylglycerol. GPR119 stimulates enteroendocrine hormone and insulin secretion. But despite massive drug discovery efforts in the field, very little is known about the basic molecular pharmacology of GPR119. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH GPR119 receptor signalling was studied in transfected cells. Mutational mapping (30 mutations in 23 positions) was performed on residues required for ligand-independent and agonist-induced GPR119 activation (AR231453 and OEA). Novel Rosetta-based receptor modelling was applied, using a composite template approach with segments from different X-ray structures and fully flexible ligand docking. KEY RESULTS The increased signalling induced by increasing the cell surface expression of GPR119 in the absence of agonist and the inhibitory effect of two synthetic inverse agonists demonstrated that GRP119 signals with a high degree of constitutive activity through the Gαs pathway. The mutational maps for AR231453 and OEA were very similar and, surprisingly, also similar to the mutational map for residues affecting the constitutive signalling - albeit with key differences. Surprisingly, almost all residues in extracellular loop-2b were important for the constitutive activity. The molecular modelling and docking demonstrated that AR231453 binds in a 'vertical' pocket in between mutational hits reaching from the centre of the receptor out to extracellular loop-2b. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS The high constitutive activity of GPR119 should be taken into account in future drug discovery efforts, which can now be guided by the detailed knowledge of the physiochemical properties of the extended ligand-binding pocket.
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- M S Engelstoft
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nøhr MK, Egerod KL, Christiansen SH, Gille A, Offermanns S, Schwartz TW, Møller M. Expression of the short chain fatty acid receptor GPR41/FFAR3 in autonomic and somatic sensory ganglia. Neuroscience 2015; 290:126-37. [PMID: 25637492 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
G-protein-coupled receptor 41 (GPR41) also called free fatty acid receptor 3 (FFAR3) is a Gαi-coupled receptor activated by short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) mainly produced from dietary complex carbohydrate fibers in the large intestine as products of fermentation by microbiota. FFAR3 is expressed in enteroendocrine cells, but has recently also been shown to be present in sympathetic neurons of the superior cervical ganglion. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the FFAR3 is present in other autonomic and sensory ganglia possibly influencing gut physiology. Cryostat sections were cut of autonomic and sensory ganglia of a transgenic reporter mouse expressing the monomeric red fluorescent protein (mRFP) gene under the control of the FFAR3 promoter. Control for specific expression was also done by immunohistochemistry with an antibody against the reporter protein. mRFP expression was as expected found not only in neurons of the superior cervical ganglion, but also in sympathetic ganglia of the thoracic and lumbar sympathetic trunk. Further, neurons in prevertebral ganglia expressed the mRFP reporter. FFAR3-mRFP-expressing neurons were also present in both autonomic and sensory ganglia such as the vagal ganglion, the spinal dorsal root ganglion and the trigeminal ganglion. No expression was observed in the brain or spinal cord. By use of radioactive-labeled antisense DNA probes, mRNA encoding the FFAR3 was found to be present in cells of the same ganglia. Further, the expression of the FFAR3 in the ganglia of the transgenic mice was confirmed by immunohistochemistry using an antibody directed against the receptor protein, and double labeling colocalized mRFP and the FFAR3-protein in the same neurons. Finally, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) on extracts from the ganglia supported the presence mRNA encoding the FFAR3 in most of the investigated tissues. These data indicate that FFAR3 is expressed on postganglionic sympathetic and sensory neurons in both the autonomic and somatic peripheral nervous system and that SCFAs act not only through the enteroendocrine system but also directly by modifying physiological reflexes integrating the peripheral nervous system and the gastro-intestinal tract.
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- M K Nøhr
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Ludwigstrasse 43, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany; Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Maybachstrasse 14, 68169 Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Ludwigstrasse 43, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany.
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section for Metabolic Receptology and Enteroendocrinology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Müller TD, Nogueiras R, Andermann ML, Andrews ZB, Anker SD, Argente J, Batterham RL, Benoit SC, Bowers CY, Broglio F, Casanueva FF, D'Alessio D, Depoortere I, Geliebter A, Ghigo E, Cole PA, Cowley M, Cummings DE, Dagher A, Diano S, Dickson SL, Diéguez C, Granata R, Grill HJ, Grove K, Habegger KM, Heppner K, Heiman ML, Holsen L, Holst B, Inui A, Jansson JO, Kirchner H, Korbonits M, Laferrère B, LeRoux CW, Lopez M, Morin S, Nakazato M, Nass R, Perez-Tilve D, Pfluger PT, Schwartz TW, Seeley RJ, Sleeman M, Sun Y, Sussel L, Tong J, Thorner MO, van der Lely AJ, van der Ploeg LHT, Zigman JM, Kojima M, Kangawa K, Smith RG, Horvath T, Tschöp MH. Ghrelin. Mol Metab 2015; 4:437-60. [PMID: 26042199 PMCID: PMC4443295 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2015.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 680] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The gastrointestinal peptide hormone ghrelin was discovered in 1999 as the endogenous ligand of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor. Increasing evidence supports more complicated and nuanced roles for the hormone, which go beyond the regulation of systemic energy metabolism. SCOPE OF REVIEW In this review, we discuss the diverse biological functions of ghrelin, the regulation of its secretion, and address questions that still remain 15 years after its discovery. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS In recent years, ghrelin has been found to have a plethora of central and peripheral actions in distinct areas including learning and memory, gut motility and gastric acid secretion, sleep/wake rhythm, reward seeking behavior, taste sensation and glucose metabolism.
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- T D Müller
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, University of Santiago de Compostela (CIMUS)-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS)-CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Applied Cachexia Research, Department of Cardiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Madrid, Spain ; Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and CIBER Fisiopatología de la obesidad y nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Obesity Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Section, Peptide Research Section, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela University, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), CIBER de Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, Department of Medicine, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Monash Obesity & Diabetes Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; Monash Obesity & Diabetes Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Dept of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Physiology/Endocrinology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA
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- Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA
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- NuMe Health, 1441 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Medizinische Klinik I, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- New York Obesity Research Center, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Diabetes Complications Research Centre, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Physiology, Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, University of Santiago de Compostela (CIMUS)-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS)-CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany
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- Division of Neurology, Respirology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Erasmus University MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Molecular Genetics, Institute of Life Science, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan
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- National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- The Scripps Research Institute, Florida Department of Metabolism & Aging, Jupiter, FL, USA
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- Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany ; Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Albrechtsen A, Grarup N, Li Y, Sparsø T, Tian G, Cao H, Jiang T, Kim SY, Korneliussen T, Li Q, Nie C, Wu R, Skotte L, Morris AP, Ladenvall C, Cauchi S, Stančáková A, Andersen G, Astrup A, Banasik K, Bennett AJ, Bolund L, Charpentier G, Chen Y, Dekker JM, Doney ASF, Dorkhan M, Forsen T, Frayling TM, Groves CJ, Gui Y, Hallmans G, Hattersley AT, He K, Hitman GA, Holmkvist J, Huang S, Jiang H, Jin X, Justesen JM, Kristiansen K, Kuusisto J, Lajer M, Lantieri O, Li W, Liang H, Liao Q, Liu X, Ma T, Ma X, Manijak MP, Marre M, Mokrosiński J, Morris AD, Mu B, Nielsen AA, Nijpels G, Nilsson P, Palmer CNA, Rayner NW, Renström F, Ribel-Madsen R, Robertson N, Rolandsson O, Rossing P, Schwartz TW, Slagboom PE, Sterner M, Tang M, Tarnow L, Tuomi T, van’t Riet E, van Leeuwen N, Varga TV, Vestmar MA, Walker M, Wang B, Wang Y, Wu H, Xi F, Yengo L, Yu C, Zhang X, Zhang J, Zhang Q, Zhang W, Zheng H, Zhou Y, Altshuler D, ‘t Hart LM, Franks PW, Balkau B, Froguel P, McCarthy MI, Laakso M, Groop L, Christensen C, Brandslund I, Lauritzen T, Witte DR, Linneberg A, Jørgensen T, Hansen T, Wang J, Nielsen R, Pedersen O. Exome sequencing-driven discovery of coding polymorphisms associated with common metabolic phenotypes. Diabetologia 2013; 56:298-310. [PMID: 23160641 PMCID: PMC3536959 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2756-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2012] [Accepted: 09/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Human complex metabolic traits are in part regulated by genetic determinants. Here we applied exome sequencing to identify novel associations of coding polymorphisms at minor allele frequencies (MAFs) >1% with common metabolic phenotypes. METHODS The study comprised three stages. We performed medium-depth (8×) whole exome sequencing in 1,000 cases with type 2 diabetes, BMI >27.5 kg/m(2) and hypertension and in 1,000 controls (stage 1). We selected 16,192 polymorphisms nominally associated (p < 0.05) with case-control status, from four selected annotation categories or from loci reported to associate with metabolic traits. These variants were genotyped in 15,989 Danes to search for association with 12 metabolic phenotypes (stage 2). In stage 3, polymorphisms showing potential associations were genotyped in a further 63,896 Europeans. RESULTS Exome sequencing identified 70,182 polymorphisms with MAF >1%. In stage 2 we identified 51 potential associations with one or more of eight metabolic phenotypes covered by 45 unique polymorphisms. In meta-analyses of stage 2 and stage 3 results, we demonstrated robust associations for coding polymorphisms in CD300LG (fasting HDL-cholesterol: MAF 3.5%, p = 8.5 × 10(-14)), COBLL1 (type 2 diabetes: MAF 12.5%, OR 0.88, p = 1.2 × 10(-11)) and MACF1 (type 2 diabetes: MAF 23.4%, OR 1.10, p = 8.2 × 10(-10)). CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION We applied exome sequencing as a basis for finding genetic determinants of metabolic traits and show the existence of low-frequency and common coding polymorphisms with impact on common metabolic traits. Based on our study, coding polymorphisms with MAF above 1% do not seem to have particularly high effect sizes on the measured metabolic traits.
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- A. Albrechtsen
- Centre of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences, Bldg #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 USA
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- Centre of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Centre of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- UMR CNRS 8199, Genomic and Metabolic Disease, Lille, France
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Endocrinology-Diabetology, Corbeil-Essonnes Hospital, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Diabetes Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
- Pharmacogenomics Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Vasa Health Care Center, Vaasa, Finland
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- Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Diabetes Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Diabetes Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Diabetes, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Vipergen Aps, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
- School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Institut inter Regional pour la Santé (IRSA), La Riche, France
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
- Inserm U695, Université Denis Diderot Paris 7, Paris, France
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diabetes Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
- Pharmacogenomics Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
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- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Diabetes Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
- Pharmacogenomics Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåna University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Netherlands Center for Healthy Ageing, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåna University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diabetes Research Group, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- UMR CNRS 8199, Genomic and Metabolic Disease, Lille, France
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA USA
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- Section of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåna University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
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- Inserm CESP U1018, Villejuif, France
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- UMR CNRS 8199, Genomic and Metabolic Disease, Lille, France
- Genomic Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
- Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, 518083 Shenzhen, China
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences, Bldg #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 USA
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DIKU Building, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
- Institute of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Pedersen J, Ugleholdt RK, Jørgensen SM, Windeløv JA, Grunddal KV, Schwartz TW, Füchtbauer EM, Poulsen SS, Holst PJ, Holst JJ. Glucose metabolism is altered after loss of L cells and α-cells but not influenced by loss of K cells. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2013; 304:E60-73. [PMID: 23115082 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00547.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The enteroendocrine K and L cells are responsible for secretion of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon like-peptide 1 (GLP-1), whereas pancreatic α-cells are responsible for secretion of glucagon. In rodents and humans, dysregulation of the secretion of GIP, GLP-1, and glucagon is associated with impaired regulation of metabolism. This study evaluates the consequences of acute removal of Gip- or Gcg-expressing cells on glucose metabolism. Generation of the two diphtheria toxin receptor cellular knockout mice, TgN(GIP.DTR) and TgN(GCG.DTR), allowed us to study effects of acute ablation of K and L cells and α-cells. Diphtheria toxin administration reduced the expression of Gip and content of GIP in the proximal jejunum in TgN(GIP.DTR) and expression of Gcg and content of proglucagon-derived peptides in both proximal jejunum and terminal ileum as well as content of glucagon in pancreas in TgN(GCG.DTR) compared with wild-type mice. GIP response to oral glucose was attenuated following K cell loss, but oral and intraperitoneal glucose tolerances were unaffected. Intraperitoneal glucose tolerance was impaired following combined L cell and α-cell loss and normal following α-cell loss. Oral glucose tolerance was improved following L cell and α-cell loss and supernormal following α-cell loss. We present two mouse models that allow studies of the effects of K cell or L cell and α-cell loss as well as isolated α-cell loss. Our findings show that intraperitoneal glucose tolerance is dependent on an intact L cell mass and underscore the diabetogenic effects of α-cell signaling. Furthermore, the results suggest that K cells are less involved in acute regulation of mouse glucose metabolism than L cells and α-cells.
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- J Pedersen
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Gbahou F, Holst B, Schwartz TW. Molecular Basis for Agonism in the BB3 Receptor: An Epitope Located on the Interface of Transmembrane-III, -VI, and -VII. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2010; 333:51-9. [DOI: 10.1124/jpet.109.162131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Steen A, W. Schwartz T, M. Rosenkilde M. Targeting CXCR4 in HIV Cell-Entry Inhibition. Mini Rev Med Chem 2009; 9:1605-21. [DOI: 10.2174/138955709791012265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hamid YH, Vissing H, Holst B, Urhammer SA, Pyke C, Hansen SK, Glümer C, Borch-Johnsen K, Jørgensen T, Schwartz TW, Pedersen O, Hansen T. Studies of relationships between variation of the human G protein-coupled receptor 40 Gene and Type 2 diabetes and insulin release. Diabet Med 2005; 22:74-80. [PMID: 15606695 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2005.01505.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS Recently, a novel human G protein-coupled receptor 40 (GPR40), which is predominantly expressed in pancreatic islets, was shown to mediate an amplifying effect of long-chain fatty acids on glucose-induced insulin secretion. The present aim was to examine the coding region of GPR40 for variation and to assess whether identified variants confer an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes or altered insulin release. METHODS Mutation analysis was performed in 43 patients with Type 2 diabetes, 18 normal glucose-tolerant subjects, and 3 maturity-onset of diabetes in the young (MODY) X patients using direct sequencing. Genotyping was performed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-generated primer extension products analysis by high throughput chip-based mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF). The potential impact of GPR40 mutations on [(3)H]-myo-inositol turnover was estimated in COS-7 cells after stimulation with various concentrations of 5,8,11-eicosatriynoic acid. RESULTS Two nucleotide substitutions, an Arg211His polymorphism and a rare Asp175Asn mutation, were identified. Both variants showed EC(50) values similar to the wild type. However, the maximal efficacy of the rare Asp175Asn was 39% lower compared with the wild type (P = 0.01). The Arg211His polymorphism had a similar allele frequency among 1384 Type 2 diabetic patients [MAF%; 23.4 (95% CI: 21.8-25.0)] and 4424 middle-aged glucose-tolerant subjects [24.1% (23.2-25.0)]. A genotype-quantitative trait study of 5597 non-diabetic, middle-aged subjects from the Inter99 cohort showed no significant differences in oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)-derived estimates of insulin release between carriers of various GPR40 genotypes. CONCLUSIONS Variations in the coding region of GPR40 do not appear to be associated with Type 2 diabetes or insulin release alterations.
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- Y H Hamid
- Steno Diabetes Center, DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark.
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Schwartz TW, Verlaege O. The first PP supper--Camelot at Bispebjerg. Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl 2002; 234:109-21. [PMID: 11713971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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In the early seventies of the last century, in a temporary building called "Sukkertoppen" at Bispebjerg Hospital, a group of devoted, young medical doctors and a couple of students together with a team of highly skilled laboratory technicians gathered around the "senior" Jens F. Rehfeld, who had barely turned thirty years of age. Each person got his own peptide, raised antibodies, iodinated the peptide and established a radioimmunoassay with which he could then conquer the world of gastrointestinal hormones. It was a unique time, where old hormones had just been chemically characterized and could now be subjected to immunochemical measurements and characterization for the first time. It was also a period when a whole host of new biologically active peptides were being discovered, and basically anything you did with "your" peptide was exciting news for the scientific community. The concept of neuropeptides was being established and Jens Frederik and his brave scientific knights were in the middle of it all. The period ended in the summer of 1976, when Rehfeld moved his court to the University of Aarhus and the others scattered--each to establish their own scientific group.
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- T W Schwartz
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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We have used a novel technology (NovoStar from BMG Labtechnologies) for the study of the Ca2+ signalling of the human tackykinin NK1 (hNK-I receptor). The NovoStar is a microplate reader based on fluorescence and luminescence. The instrument implements a robotic pipettor arm and two microplate carriers, typically one for samples and one for cells. The robotic pipettor arm can transfer sample (agonist or antagonist) from the sample plate or other liquid containers to the cell plate, facilitating the study of Ca2+ signalling to such a degree that the instrument can be used for Medium Throughput Screening (MTS). Using the NovoStar we have found the molecular pharmacology of the NK1 receptor to be comparable to that observed in classical signal transduction assays. Thus, we have observed an EC50 value of 3 nM for substance P induced Ca2+ response. This value corresponds well with previously published values for substance P induced IP and cAMP turnover. [1] Using the NovoStar technology we have studied the pharmacological profile of the well known non-peptide NKI receptor antagonists CP96,345 and SR140,333 [2,3] in respect of inhibition of the Ca2+ response induced by substance P. Interestingly, the antagonistic potency of the antagonists depended greatly on the experimental design, e.g., a dependency of timing in the addition of antagonists vs. agonist was noted. Also, metal-ion site engineered NK1 receptors [2] were tested for the ability of metal-ions to inhibit signalling. It is concluded that the NovoStar is a reliable tool for the study of receptor Ca2+ signalling, both as a research tool and as a MTS system.
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- A Heding
- 7TM Pharma A/S, Rønnegade 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Holst PJ, Rosenkilde MM, Manfra D, Chen SC, Wiekowski MT, Holst B, Cifire F, Lipp M, Schwartz TW, Lira SA. Tumorigenesis induced by the HHV8-encoded chemokine receptor requires ligand modulation of high constitutive activity. J Clin Invest 2001; 108:1789-96. [PMID: 11748262 PMCID: PMC209468 DOI: 10.1172/jci13622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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ORF74 (or KSHV-vGPCR) is a highly constitutively active G protein-coupled receptor encoded by HHV8 that is regulated both positively and negatively by endogenous chemokines. When expressed in transgenic mice, this chemokine receptor induces an angioproliferative disease closely resembling Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Here we demonstrate that several lines of mice carrying mutated receptors deficient in either constitutive activity or chemokine regulation fail to develop KS-like disease. In addition, animals expressing a receptor that preserves chemokine binding and constitutive activity but that does not respond to agonist stimulation have a much lower incidence of angiogenic lesions and tumors. These results indicate that induction of the KS-like disease in transgenic mice by ORF74 requires not only high constitutive signaling activity but also modulation of this activity by endogenous chemokines.
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- P J Holst
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mizoue LS, Sullivan SK, King DS, Kledal TN, Schwartz TW, Bacon KB, Handel TM. Molecular determinants of receptor binding and signaling by the CX3C chemokine fractalkine. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:33906-14. [PMID: 11432858 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101348200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fractalkine/CX3CL1 is a membrane-tethered chemokine that functions as a chemoattractant and adhesion protein by interacting with the receptor CX3CR1. To understand the molecular basis for the interaction, an extensive mutagenesis study of fractalkine's chemokine domain was undertaken. The results reveal a cluster of basic residues (Lys-8, Lys-15, Lys-37, Arg-45, and Arg-48) and one aromatic (Phe-50) that are critical for binding and/or signaling. The mutant R48A could bind but not induce chemotaxis, demonstrating that Arg-48 is a signaling trigger. This result also shows that signaling residues are not confined to chemokine N termini, as generally thought. F50A showed no detectable binding, underscoring its importance to the stability of the complex. K15A displayed unique signaling characteristics, eliciting a wild-type calcium flux but minimal chemotaxis, suggesting that this mutant can activate some, but not all, pathways required for migration. Fractalkine also binds the human cytomegalovirus receptor US28, and analysis of the mutants indicates that US28 recognizes many of the same epitopes of fractalkine as CX3CR1. Comparison of the binding surfaces of fractalkine and the CC chemokine MCP-1 reveals structural details that may account for their dual recognition by US28 and their selective recognition by host receptors.
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- L S Mizoue
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Lüttichau HR, Gerstoft J, Schwartz TW. MC148 encoded by human molluscum contagiosum poxvirus is an antagonist for human but not murine CCR8. J Leukoc Biol 2001; 70:277-82. [PMID: 11493620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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The viral CC chemokines MC148, encoded by the poxvirus molluscum contagiosum, and viral macrophage inflammatory protein (vMIP)-I and vMIP-II, encoded by human herpesvirus 8, were probed on the murine CC receptor (CCR) 8 in parallel with human CCR8. In calcium mobilization assays, vMIP-I acted as a high-affinity agonist, whereas vMIP-II acted as a low-affinity antagonist on the murine CCR8 as well as the human CCR8. MC148 was found to bind and block responses through the human CCR8 with high affinity, but surprisingly MC148 was unable to bind and block responses through the murine CCR8. Because MC148 is the only high-affinity antagonist known to target and be selective for CCR8, MC148 is a valuable tool to decipher the role played by CCR8 in the immune system. This study shows that MC148 could not be used in murine inflammatory models; however, it will be interesting to see whether it can be used in other animal models to delineate the role played by CCR8.
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- H R Lüttichau
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, Department for Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, and. 7TM Pharma A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Hatse S, Princen K, Gerlach LO, Bridger G, Henson G, De Clercq E, Schwartz TW, Schols D. Mutation of Asp(171) and Asp(262) of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 impairs its coreceptor function for human immunodeficiency virus-1 entry and abrogates the antagonistic activity of AMD3100. Mol Pharmacol 2001; 60:164-73. [PMID: 11408611 DOI: 10.1124/mol.60.1.164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The bicyclam AMD3100 is a highly potent and selective CXCR4 antagonist with strong antiviral activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and HIV-2, which use CXCR4 as coreceptor for host cell entry. Here, we investigated the interaction of AMD3100 with CXCR4 at the molecular level by mutational analysis. We established a set of stably transfected U87.CD4 cell lines expressing different mutant forms of CXCR4 (i.e., CXCR4[WT], CXCR4[D171N], CXCR4[D262N], CXCR4[D171N,D262N], and CXCR4[H281A]), to compare the activity of the compound against mutated versus wild-type CXCR4. We found that the antagonistic action of AMD3100 against CXCR4--as assessed by the inhibitory effects of the compound on stromal cell-derived factor (SDF-1) binding to its receptor and on SDF-1-induced intracellular calcium signaling, and by displacement of the CXCR4-specific antibody, clone 12G5--was greatly reduced by substitution of Asp(171) and/or Asp(262) by neutral asparagine residue(s). Both aspartates, but most particularly Asp(262), also proved essential for the anti-HIV-1 activity of AMD3100 against the viruses NL4.3, IIIB, and HE. In contrast, substitution of His(281) by a neutral alanine potentiated the antagonistic and antiviral effects of the compound in the different assay systems. Importantly, compared with the wild-type receptor, CXCR4[D262N] was much less effective, whereas CXCR4[D171N,D262N] completely failed as a coreceptor for infection by HIV-1 NL4.3. Thus, the negatively charged aspartate residues at positions 171 and 262, located in transmembrane domains 4 and 6 of the 7-transmembrane receptor, respectively, may represent crucial sites for electrostatic interaction of the positive charges of the bicyclams, as well as for the highly basic V3 loop of the gp120 envelope protein of certain HIV-1 strains.
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- S Hatse
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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Holst B, Hastrup H, Raffetseder U, Martini L, Schwartz TW. Two active molecular phenotypes of the tachykinin NK1 receptor revealed by G-protein fusions and mutagenesis. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:19793-9. [PMID: 11279104 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100621200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The NK1 neurokinin receptor presents two non-ideal binding phenomena, two-component binding curves for all agonists and significant differences between agonist affinity determined by homologous versus heterologous competition binding. Whole cell binding with fusion proteins constructed between either Galpha(s) or Galpha(q) and the NK1 receptor with a truncated tail, which secured non-promiscuous G-protein interaction, demonstrated monocomponent agonist binding closely corresponding to either of the two affinity states found in the wild-type receptor. High affinity binding of both substance P and neurokinin A was observed in the tail-truncated Galpha(s) fusion construct, whereas the lower affinity component was displayed by the tail-truncated Galpha(q) fusion. The elusive difference between the affinity determined in heterologous versus homologous binding assays for substance P and especially for neurokinin A was eliminated in the G-protein fusions. An NK1 receptor mutant with a single substitution at the extracellular end of TM-III-(F111S), which totally uncoupled the receptor from Galpha(s) signaling, showed binding properties that were monocomponent and otherwise very similar to those observed in the tail-truncated Galpha(q) fusion construct. Thus, the heterogenous pharmacological phenotype displayed by the NK1 receptor is a reflection of the occurrence of two active conformations or molecular phenotypes representing complexes with the Galpha(s) and Galpha(q) species, respectively. We propose that these molecular forms do not interchange readily, conceivably because of the occurrence of microdomains or "signal-transductosomes" within the cell membrane.
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- B Holst
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen DK-2200 and the 7TM Pharma A/S, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Fraile-Ramos A, Kledal TN, Pelchen-Matthews A, Bowers K, Schwartz TW, Marsh M. The human cytomegalovirus US28 protein is located in endocytic vesicles and undergoes constitutive endocytosis and recycling. Mol Biol Cell 2001; 12:1737-49. [PMID: 11408581 PMCID: PMC37337 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.12.6.1737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Genes encoding chemokine receptor-like proteins have been found in herpes and poxviruses and implicated in viral pathogenesis. Here we describe the cellular distribution and trafficking of a human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) chemokine receptor encoded by the US28 gene, after transient and stable expression in transfected HeLa and Cos cells. Immunofluorescence staining indicated that this viral protein accumulated intracellularly in vesicular structures in the perinuclear region of the cell and showed overlap with markers for endocytic organelles. By immunogold electron microscopy US28 was seen mostly to localize to multivesicular endosomes. A minor portion of the protein (at most 20%) was also expressed at the cell surface. Antibody-feeding experiments indicated that cell surface US28 undergoes constitutive ligand-independent endocytosis. Biochemical analysis with the use of iodinated ligands showed that US28 was rapidly internalized. The high-affinity ligand of US28, the CX(3)C-chemokine fractalkine, reduced the steady-state levels of US28 at the cell surface, apparently by inhibiting the recycling of internalized receptor. Endocytosis and cycling of HCMV US28 could play a role in the sequestration of host chemokines, thereby modulating antiviral immune responses. In addition, the distribution of US28 mainly on endosomal membranes may allow it to be incorporated into the viral envelope during HCMV assembly.
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- A Fraile-Ramos
- Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Biochemistry, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Gerlach LO, Skerlj RT, Bridger GJ, Schwartz TW. Molecular interactions of cyclam and bicyclam non-peptide antagonists with the CXCR4 chemokine receptor. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:14153-60. [PMID: 11154697 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m010429200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The non-peptide CXCR4 receptor antagonist AMD3100, which is a potent blocker of human immunodeficiency virus cell entry, is a symmetrical bicyclam composed of two identical 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane (cyclam) moieties connected by a relatively rigid phenylenebismethylene linker. Based on the known strong propensity of the cyclam moiety to bind carboxylic acid groups, receptor mutagenesis identified Asp(171) and Asp(262), located in transmembrane domain (TM) IV and TM-VI, respectively, at each end of the main ligand-binding crevice of the CXCR4 receptor, as being essential for the ability of AMD3100 to block the binding of the chemokine ligand stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1alpha as well as the binding of the receptor antibody 12G5. The free cyclam moiety had no effect on 12G5 binding, but blocked SDF-1alpha binding with an affinity of 3 microm through interaction with Asp(171). The effect on SDF-1alpha binding of a series of bicyclam analogs with variable chemical linkers was found to rely either only on Asp(171), i.e. the bicyclams acted as the isolated cyclam, or on both Asp(171) and Asp(262), i.e. they acted as AMD3100, depending on the length and the chemical nature of the linker between the two cyclam moieties. A positive correlation was found between the dependence of these compounds on Asp(262) for binding and their potency as anti-human immunodeficiency virus agents. It is concluded that AMD3100 acts on the CXCR4 receptor through binding to Asp(171) in TM-IV and Asp(262) in TM-VI with each of its cyclam moieties, and it is suggested that part of its function is associated with a conformational constraint imposed upon the receptor by the connecting phenylenebismethylene linker.
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- L O Gerlach
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Panum Institute, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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The viral chemokine antagonist vMIP-II encoded by human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) and MC148 encoded by the poxvirus - Molluscum contagiosum - were tested against the newly identified chemokine receptor CCR10. As the CCR10 ligand ESkine / CCL27 had the highest identity to MC148 and because both chemokines are expressed in the skin we suspected MC148 to block CCR10. However, in calcium mobilization assays we found MC148 unable to block CCR10 in micromolar concentrations in contrast to vMIP-II. (125)I-MC148 was only able to bind to CCR8, but not to CCR10, CCR11, CXCR6 / BONZO, APJ, DARC or the orphan receptors BOB, EBI-II, GPR4, GPR17, HCR or RDC1. We conclude that MC148 is a highly selective CCR8 antagonist conceivably optimized to interfere with NK cell and monocyte invasion, whereas the broad-spectrum antagonist vMIP-II protects HHV8 by blocking multiple receptors.
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- H R Lüttichau
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A number of herpes- and poxviruses encode 7TM G-protein coupled receptors most of which clearly are derived from their host chemokine system as well as induce high expression of certain 7TM receptors in the infected cells. The receptors appear to be exploited by the virus for either immune evasion, cellular reprogramming, tissue targeting or for cell entry. Through their efficient evolutionary machinery and through in vivo selection performed directly on the human cellular and molecular targets, virus have been able to optimize the encoded receptors for distinct pharmacological profiles to help in various parts of the viral life cyclus. Most of the receptors encoded by human pathogenic virus are still orphan receptors, i.e. the endogenous ligand is unknown. In the few cases where it has been possible to characterize these receptors pharmacologically, they have been found to bind a broad spectrum of either CC chemokines, US28 from human cytomegalovirus, or CXC chemokines, ORF74 from human herpesvirus 8. Nevertheless, US28 has been specifically optimized for recognition of the membrane bound chemokine, fractalkine, conceivably involved in cell-cell transfer of virus; whereas ORF74 among the endogenous CXC chemokines has selected angiogenic chemokines as agonists and angiostatic/modulatory chemokines as inverse agonists. ORF74 possess substantial cell-transforming properties and signals with high constitutive activity through the phospholipase C and MAP kinase pathways. Interestingly, transgenic expression of this single gene in certain lymphocyte cell lineages leads to the development of lesions which are remarkably similar to Kaposi's sarcoma, a human herpesvirus 8 associated disease. Thus, this and other virally encoded 7TM receptors appear to be attractive future drug targets.
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- M M Rosenkilde
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, DK-2200, Denmark
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Jensen KK, Martini L, Schwartz TW. Enhanced fluorescence resonance energy transfer between spectral variants of green fluorescent protein through zinc-site engineering. Biochemistry 2001; 40:938-45. [PMID: 11170415 DOI: 10.1021/bi001765m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Although spectral variants of GFP should in theory be suited for fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and therefore suited for studies of protein-protein interactions, the unfavorable location of the fluorophore 15 A deep inside the GFP molecule has especially impaired this application. Here, metal-ion site engineering around the dimerization interface known from the X-ray structure of GFP is applied to the cyan and the yellow spectral variant of GFP to stabilize the heterodimeric form of these molecules and thereby increase FRET signaling. The FRET signal, determined as the ratio between the maximal emission for the yellow variant, 530 nm, and the cyan variant, 475 nm, during excitation of the cyan variant at 433 nm was increased up to 8-10-fold in the presence of 10(-4) M ZnCl2 by engineering of two symmetric metal-ion sites being either bidentate or tridentate. A similar increase in FRET signaling was however obtained in a pair of molecules in which a single bidentate metal-ion site was generated by introducing a zinc-binding residue in each of the two spectral variants of GFP and therefore creating an obligate heterodimeric pair. It is concluded that FRET signaling between spectral variants of GFP can be increased by stabilizing dimer formation and especially by favoring heterodimer formation in this case performed by metal-ion site engineering.
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- K K Jensen
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lüttichau HR, Schwartz TW. Validation of chemokine receptors as drug targets. Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 2000; 3:610-623. [PMID: 19649889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The number of known potential drug targets within the chemokine system has expanded in the last decade with the characterization of new chemokines and chemokine receptors. However, at present, limited information exists on the potential of these receptors as drug targets due to the lack of small molecule chemokine receptor antagonists. This review focuses on current information relating to these receptors obtained through genetic knockout experiments, as well as experiments performed with peptide antagonists and receptor antibodies.
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- H R Lüttichau
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rosenkilde MM, Kledal TN, Holst PJ, Schwartz TW. Selective elimination of high constitutive activity or chemokine binding in the human herpesvirus 8 encoded seven transmembrane oncogene ORF74. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:26309-15. [PMID: 10842179 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003800200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Open reading frame 74 (ORF74) encoded by human herpesvirus 8 is a highly constitutively active seven transmembrane (7TM) receptor stimulated by angiogenic chemokines, e.g. growth-related oncogene-alpha, and inhibited by angiostatic chemokines e.g. interferon-gamma-inducible protein. Transgenic mice expressing ORF74 under control of the CD2 promoter develop highly vascularized Kaposi's sarcoma-like tumors. Through targeted mutagenesis we here create three distinct phenotypes of ORF74: a receptor with normal, high constitutive signaling through the phospholipase C pathway but deprived of binding and action of chemokines obtained through deletion of 22 amino acids from the N-terminal extension; an ORF74 with high constitutive activity but with selective elimination of stimulatory regulation by angiogenic chemokines obtained through substitution of basic residues at the extracellular ends of TM-V or TM-VI; and an ORF74 lacking constitutive activity but with preserved ability to be stimulated by agonist chemokines obtained through introduction of an Asp residue on the hydrophobic, presumed membrane-exposed face of TM-II. It is concluded that careful molecular dissection can selectively eliminate either agonist or inverse agonist modulation as well as high constitutive activity of the virally encoded oncogene ORF74 and that these mutant forms presumably can be used in transgenic animals to identify the molecular mechanism of its transforming activity.
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- M M Rosenkilde
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Holst B, Elling CE, Schwartz TW. Partial agonism through a zinc-Ion switch constructed between transmembrane domains III and VII in the tachykinin NK(1) receptor. Mol Pharmacol 2000; 58:263-70. [PMID: 10908293 DOI: 10.1124/mol.58.2.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Partly due to lack of detailed knowledge of the molecular recognition of ligands the structural basis for partial versus full agonism is not known. In the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor the agonist binding site has previously been structurally and functionally exchanged with an activating metal-ion site located between AspIII:08-or a His residue introduced at this position in transmembrane domain (TM)-III-and a Cys residue substituted for AsnVII:06 in TM-VII. Here, this interhelical, bidentate metal-ion site is without loss of Zn(2+) affinity transferred to the tachykinin NK(1) receptor. In contrast to the similarly mutated beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, signal transduction-i.e., inositol phosphate turnover-could be stimulated by both Zn(2+) and by the natural agonist, Substance P in the mutated NK(1) receptor. The metal-ion acted as a 25% partial agonist through binding to the bidentate zinc switch located exactly one helical turn below the two previously identified interaction points for Substance P in, respectively, TM-III and -VII. The metal-ion chelator, phenantroline, which in the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor increased both the potency and the agonistic efficacy of Zn(2+) or Cu(2+) in complex with the chelator, also bound to the metal-ion site-engineered NK(1) receptor, but here the metal-ion chelator complex instead acted as a pure antagonist. It is concluded that signaling of even distantly related rhodopsin-like 7TM receptors can be activated through Zn(2+) coordination between metal-ion binding residues located at positions III:08 and VII:06. It is suggested that only partial agonism is obtained through this simple well defined metal-ion coordination due to lack of proper interactions with residues also in TM-VI.
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- B Holst
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Larson DL, Jones RM, Hjorth SA, Schwartz TW, Portoghese PS. Binding of norbinaltorphimine (norBNI) congeners to wild-type and mutant mu and kappa opioid receptors: molecular recognition loci for the pharmacophore and address components of kappa antagonists. J Med Chem 2000; 43:1573-6. [PMID: 10780914 DOI: 10.1021/jm000059g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Molecular modifications of both the kappa opioid antagonist norbinaltorphimine (norBNI, 1) and the kappa receptor have provided evidence that the selectivity of this ligand is conferred through ionic interaction if its N17' protonated amine group (an "address") with a nonconserved acidic residue (Glu297) on the kappa receptor. In the present study, we have examined the effect of structural modifications on the affinity of norBNI analogues for wild-type and mutant kappa and mu opioid receptors expressed in COS-7 cells. Compounds 2, 3, and 7, which have an antagonist pharmacophore and basic N17' group in common with norBNI, retained high affinity for the wild-type kappa but exhibited greatly reduced affinity for mutant kappa receptors (E297K and E297A). Modification of the phenolic or N-substituent groups of the antagonist pharmacophore (4 and 5) or removal of basicity at the address N17' center (6) led to greatly reduced affinity for the wild-type and mutant receptors. The reduced affinity upon modification of the kappa receptor is consistent with the ionic interaction of the protonated N17' group of kappa antagonists (1-3, 7) with the carboxylate group of E297 at the top of TM6. This was supported by the greatly enhanced affinity of compounds 1-3 for the mutant mu receptor (K303E), as compared to the wild-type mu receptor, given that residue K303 occupies a position equivalent to that of E297 in the kappa receptor. In view of the high degree of homology of the seven TM domains of the kappa and mu opioid receptors, it is suggested that the antagonist pharmacophore is bound within this highly conserved region of the kappa or mutant mu receptor and that an anionic residue at the top of TM6 (E297 or K303E, respectively) provides additional binding affinity.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- COS Cells
- Cloning, Molecular
- Glutamic Acid/chemistry
- Ligands
- Models, Molecular
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Naltrexone/analogs & derivatives
- Naltrexone/chemistry
- Naltrexone/metabolism
- Narcotic Antagonists/chemistry
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/genetics
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/metabolism
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/genetics
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Transfection
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- D L Larson
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Rosenkilde MM, Schwartz TW. Potency of ligands correlates with affinity measured against agonist and inverse agonists but not against neutral ligand in constitutively active chemokine receptor. Mol Pharmacol 2000; 57:602-9. [PMID: 10692502 DOI: 10.1124/mol.57.3.602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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ORF-74, a 7TM receptor oncogene encoded by human herpes virus 8, shows 50% constitutive activity in stimulating phosphatidylinositol turnover and binds a large variety of CXC chemokines. These endogenous ligands cover a full spectrum of pharmacological properties with growth-related oncogene (GRO)-alpha and -gamma functioning as full agonists; GRObeta as a partial agonist; interleukin (IL)-8, neutrophil-activating peptide (NAP)-2, and epithelial cell-derived activating peptide (ENA)-78 as neutral ligands; granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCP)-2 as a partial inverse agonist; and interferon-gamma inducible protein (IP)-10 and stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1alpha as full inverse agonists. The affinity for the agonists was independent of whether it was determined in competition binding against the agonist (125)I-GROalpha, against the inverse agonist (125)I-IP-10, or against the neutral ligand (125)I-IL-8. Similarly, the affinities of the inverse agonists were within 1 order of magnitude independent of the choice of radioligand. In contrast, the neutral ligands IL-8, NAP-2, and ENA-78, which all displaced (125)I-IL-8 with single-digit nanomolar affinity showed up to 1000-fold lower affinity against both the radioactive agonist and against the radioactive inverse agonist. A close correlation was observed between the EC(50) values for the ligands and their IC(50) values measured against either radioactive agonist or radioactive inverse agonist, but a poor correlation was found to the IC(50) value measured against the neutral ligand. It is concluded that in ORF-74, ligands compete for binding more according to pharmacological property than to structural homology and that both agonists and inverse agonists, in contrast to neutral ligands, apparently bind with high affinity either to a common conformation of the receptor or to readily interconvertible states, not available for the neutral ligands.
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- M M Rosenkilde
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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As in most other seven-transmembrane receptors, the central disulfide bridge from the extracellular end of TM-III to the middle of the second extracellular loop was essential for ligand binding in the NK1 receptor. However, introduction of "extra", single Cys residues in the second extracellular loop, at positions where disease-associated Cys substitutions impair receptor function in the vasopressin V2 receptor and in rhodopsin, did not cause mispairing with the Cys residues involved in this central disulfide bridge. Cys residues were introduced in the N-terminal extension and in the third extracellular loop, respectively, in such a way that disulfide bridge formation could be monitored by loss of substance P binding and breakage of the bridge could be monitored by gain of ligand binding. This disulfide bridge formed spontaneously in the whole population of receptors and could be titrated with low concentrations of reducing agent, dithiothreitol. Another putative disulfide bridge "switch" was constructed at the extracellular ends of TM-V and -VI, i.e., at positions where a high-affinity zinc site previously had been constructed with His substitutions. Disulfide bridge formation at this position, monitored by loss of binding of the nonpeptide antagonist [3H]LY303.870, occurred spontaneously only in a small fraction of the receptors. It is concluded that disulfide bridges form readily between Cys residues introduced appropriately in the N-terminal extension and the third extracellular loop, whereas they form with more difficulty between Cys residues placed at the extracellular ends of the transmembrane segments even at positions where high-affinity metal ion sites can be constructed with His residues.
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- C E Elling
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Elling CE, Thirstrup K, Holst B, Schwartz TW. Conversion of agonist site to metal-ion chelator site in the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:12322-7. [PMID: 10535920 PMCID: PMC22915 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.22.12322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Previously metal-ion sites have been used as structural and functional probes in seven transmembrane receptors (7TM), but as yet all the engineered sites have been inactivating. Based on presumed agonist interaction points in transmembrane III (TM-III) and -VII of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, in this paper we construct an activating metal-ion site between the amine-binding Asp-113 in TM-III-or a His residue introduced at this position-and a Cys residue substituted for Asn-312 in TM-VII. No increase in constitutive activity was observed in the mutant receptors. Signal transduction was activated in the mutant receptors not by normal catecholamine ligands but instead either by free zinc ions or by zinc or copper ions in complex with small hydrophobic metal-ion chelators. Chelation of the metal ions by small hydrophobic chelators such as phenanthroline or bipyridine protected the cells from the toxic effect of, for example Cu(2+), and in several cases increased the affinity of the ions for the agonistic site. Wash-out experiments and structure-activity analysis indicated, that the high-affinity chelators and the metal ions bind and activate the mutant receptor as metal ion guided ligand complexes. Because of the well-understood binding geometry of the small metal ions, an important distance constraint has here been imposed between TM-III and -VII in the active, signaling conformation of 7TM receptors. It is suggested that atoxic metal-ion chelator complexes could possibly in the future be used as generic, pharmacologic tools to switch 7TM receptors with engineered metal-ion sites on or off at will.
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- C E Elling
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Klasse PJ, Rosenkilde MM, Signoret N, Pelchen-Matthews A, Schwartz TW, Marsh M. CD4-Chemokine receptor hybrids in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. J Virol 1999; 73:7453-66. [PMID: 10438835 PMCID: PMC104272 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.9.7453-7466.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strains require both CD4 and a chemokine receptor for entry into a host cell. In order to analyze how the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein interacts with these cellular molecules, we constructed single-molecule hybrids of CD4 and chemokine receptors and expressed these constructs in the mink cell line Mv-1-lu. The two N-terminal (2D) or all four (4D) extracellular domains of CD4 were linked to the N terminus of the chemokine receptor CXCR4. The CD4(2D)CXCR4 hybrid mediated infection by HIV-1(LAI) to nearly the same extent as the wild-type molecules, whereas CD4(4D)CXCR4 was less efficient. Recombinant SU(LAI) protein competed more efficiently with the CXCR4-specific monoclonal antibody 12G5 for binding to CD4(2D)CXCR4 than for binding to CD4(4D)CXCR4. Stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1) blocked HIV-1(LAI) infection of cells expressing CD4(2D)CXCR4 less efficiently than for cells expressing wild-type CXCR4 and CD4, whereas down-modulation of CXCR4 by SDF-1 was similar for hybrids and wild-type CXCR4. In contrast, the bicyclam AMD3100, a nonpeptide CXCR4 ligand that did not down-modulate the hybrids, blocked hybrid-mediated infection at least as potently as for wild-type CXCR4. Thus SDF-1, but not the smaller molecule AMD3100, may interfere at multiple points with the binding of the surface unit (SU)-CD4 complex to CXCR4, a mechanism that the covalent linkage of CD4 to CXCR4 impedes. Although the CD4-CXCR4 hybrids yielded enhanced SU interactions with the chemokine receptor moiety, this did not overcome the specific coreceptor requirement of different HIV-1 strains: the X4 virus HIV-1(LAI) and the X4R5 virus HIV-1(89. 6), unlike the R5 strain HIV-1(SF162), infected Mv-1-lu cells expressing the CD4(2D)CXCR4 hybrid, but none could use hybrids of CD4 and the chemokine receptor CCR2b, CCR5, or CXCR2. Thus single-molecule hybrid constructs that mimic receptor-coreceptor complexes can be used to dissect coreceptor function and its inhibition.
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- P J Klasse
- MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
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Rosenkilde MM, Kledal TN, Bräuner-Osborne H, Schwartz TW. Agonists and inverse agonists for the herpesvirus 8-encoded constitutively active seven-transmembrane oncogene product, ORF-74. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:956-61. [PMID: 9873037 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.2.956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A number of CXC chemokines competed with similar, nanomolar affinity against 125I-interleukin-8 (IL-8) binding to ORF-74, a constitutively active seven-transmembrane receptor encoded by human herpesvirus 8. However, in competition against 125I-labeled growth-related oncogene (GRO)-alpha, the ORF-74 receptor was highly selective for GRO peptides, with IL-8 being 10,000-fold less potent. The constitutive stimulating activity of ORF-74 on phosphatidylinositol turnover was not influenced by, for example, IL-8 binding. In contrast, GRO peptides acted as potent agonists in stimulating ORF-74 signaling, whereas IP-10 and stromal cell-derived factor-1alpha surprisingly acted as inverse agonists. These peptides had similar pharmacological properties with regard to enhancing or inhibiting, respectively, the stimulatory effect of ORF-74 on NIH-3T3 cell proliferation. Construction of a high affinity zinc switch through introduction of two His residues at the extracellular end of transmembrane segment V enabled Zn2+ to act as a prototype non-peptide inverse agonist, which eliminated the constitutive signaling. It is concluded that ORF-74, which is believed to be causally involved in the formation of highly vascularized tumors, has been optimized for agonist and inverse agonist modulation by the endogenous angiogenic GRO peptides and angiostatic IP-10 and stromal cell-derived factor-1alpha, respectively. ORF-74 could serve as a target for the development of non-peptide inverse agonist drugs as demonstrated by the effect of Zn2+ on the metal ion site-engineered receptor.
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- M M Rosenkilde
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kledal TN, Rosenkilde MM, Schwartz TW. Selective recognition of the membrane-bound CX3C chemokine, fractalkine, by the human cytomegalovirus-encoded broad-spectrum receptor US28. FEBS Lett 1998; 441:209-14. [PMID: 9883886 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01551-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The 7TM receptor, US28, encoded by human cytomegalovirus binds a broad spectrum of endogenous CC chemokines with sub-nanomolar affinity as determined in homologous competition binding assays. We here find that US28 also recognizes the membrane-associated CX3C chemokine, fractalkine, with sub-nanomolar affinity (IC50=0.42+/-0.09 nM). Importantly, although fractalkine could compete with high affinity against the binding of CC chemokines, the secreted CC chemokines were only able to compete for binding against radioactive fractalkine with very low affinity. It is concluded that US28, which is known to enhance cell-cell fusion processes through interaction with an as yet unidentified, human cell-specific factor, has been optimized by cytomegalovirus to selectively recognize the membrane-associated fractalkine. It is suggested that US28 expressed on the surface of infected cells and possibly on the envelope of the virion is involved in transfer of the virus from cell to cell.
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- T N Kledal
- Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute 18.6, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jones RM, Hjorth SA, Schwartz TW, Portoghese PS. Mutational evidence for a common kappa antagonist binding pocket in the wild-type kappa and mutant mu[K303E] opioid receptors. J Med Chem 1998; 41:4911-4. [PMID: 9836606 DOI: 10.1021/jm9805182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Binding, Competitive
- COS Cells
- Guanidines
- Guinea Pigs
- Ileum/drug effects
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Mice
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Conformation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Morphinans
- Muscle, Smooth/drug effects
- Mutation
- Naltrexone/analogs & derivatives
- Naltrexone/chemical synthesis
- Naltrexone/metabolism
- Naltrexone/pharmacology
- Narcotic Antagonists/chemical synthesis
- Narcotic Antagonists/metabolism
- Narcotic Antagonists/pharmacology
- Rats
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/metabolism
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/genetics
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism
- Vas Deferens/drug effects
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- R M Jones
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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In the wild-type tachykinin NK3A receptor histidyl residues are present at two positions in TM-V, V:01 and V:05, at which Zn2+ functions as an antagonist in NK1 and kappa-opioid receptors with engineered metal-ion sites. Surprisingly, in the NK3A receptor Zn2+ instead increased the binding of the agonist 125I-[MePhe7]neurokinin B to 150%. [MePhe7]neurokinin B bound to the NK3A receptor in a two-component mode of which Zn2+ eliminated the subnanomolar binding mode but induced a higher binding capacity of the nanomolar binding mode. Signal transduction was not induced by ZnCl2 but 10 microM ZnCl2 enhanced the effect of neurokinin B. Ala-substitution of HisV:01 eliminated the enhancing effect of Zn2+ on peptide binding. It is concluded that physiological concentrations of Zn2+ have a positive modulatory effect on the binding and function of neurokinin B on the NK3A receptor through a bis-His site in TM-V.
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- M M Rosenkilde
- Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute 18.6, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- T W Schwartz
- Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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The chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 are major co-receptors/receptors for the CD4-dependent and CD4-independent entry of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses. The chemokines that bind and activate these receptors can inhibit the entry of viruses that use the respective co-receptor molecules. Chemokine-induced co-receptor internalisation is a significant component of the mechanism through which chemokines inhibit virus entry. CXCR4 internalisation is induced by the CXCR4 ligand stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1), phorbol esters and, in T cells, cellular activation. Here we show that CXCR4 endocytosis can be mediated through either one of two distinct internalisation signals. A COOH-terminal serine rich domain is required for ligand- but not phorbol ester- induced CXCR4 internalisation. However, a Ser/IleLeu motif, similar to that required for the endocytosis of CD4 and the T cell receptor/CD3 complex, is required for phorbol ester-induced, but not ligand-induced, CXCR4 endocytosis. By contrast, CCR5 internalisation is induced by the beta-chemokine RANTES but not by phorbol esters. CCR5 lacks the Ser/IleLeu sequence required for phorbol ester-induced uptake of CXCR4. Together these results indicate that distinct mechanisms can regulate CXCR4 and CCR5 endocytosis and trafficking.
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- N Signoret
- Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Biochemistry, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Ditzel HJ, Rosenkilde MM, Garred P, Wang M, Koefoed K, Pedersen C, Burton DR, Schwartz TW. The CCR5 receptor acts as an alloantigen in CCR5Delta32 homozygous individuals: identification of chemokineand HIV-1-blocking human antibodies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:5241-5. [PMID: 9560260 PMCID: PMC20245 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.9.5241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/1997] [Accepted: 02/18/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The chemokine receptor CCR5 is the major coreceptor for infection by macrophage-tropic R5 HIV-1. A 32-bp deletion in the gene coding for CCR5 (CCR5Delta32) occurs with a frequency of 10% in the Caucasian population and results in a receptor protein that is truncated and not expressed at the cell surface. CCR5Delta32 homozygous individuals are apparently normal but resistant to infection with R5 HIV-1. In two individuals homozygous for CCR5Delta32, who had been repeatedly exposed to CCR5-expressing blood cells through sexual activity, we have identified antibodies to CCR5 that bound specifically to the surface of CCR5-expressing cell lines. Serum from these individuals, in contrast to serum from CCR5(+/+) individuals, competed with radiolabeled RANTES for binding to the CCR5 receptor and inhibited infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with R5, but not X4, primary isolates of HIV-1. The identified human antibodies to CCR5 define an alloantigen that may cause allograft rejection in a mismatch situation even in individuals with no history of blood transfusions or i.v. drug abuse.
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- H J Ditzel
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Several membrane proteins have been functionally expressed from non-covalently coupled, contiguous segments especially with the split-site located between natural domains. Experiments using such 'split-proteins' were here performed in the tachykinin neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor with co-expression of contiguous segments with split-sites positioned in various intracellular and extracellular loops. The construct where the split-site was located in intracellular loop 3 gave a reasonable expression level of substance-P-binding sites, i.e. 12% of wild-type expression. Of the other split-receptors tested, only the one with the split-site located just outside transmembrane (TM) segment-V gave any detectable substance P binding, which however only was 1% of the wild-type expression level. The construct with the split-site located in intracellular loop 3 bound all of the tested peptide agonists and non-peptide antagonists with normal affinity and was able to stimulate inositol phosphate turnover with a normal EC50 for substance P and an Emax according to the expression level. When intracellular loop 3 was either extended with 112 amino acid residues derived from the muscarine M2 receptor or, when major parts of the loop were deleted in the non-split NK1 receptor, the affinity for neither substance P nor for the prototype nonpeptide antagonist, CP96,345 was affected, yet an increase in EC50 for substance P was observed. Also in the split-receptor, most of intracellular loop 3 could be substituted or even deleted without affecting ligand affinity, although a decreased expression level was observed in constructs having major deletions. It is concluded, that the NK1 receptor is preferentially reconstituted by co-expression of a putative A-domain including TM-I-V and a B-domain including TM-VI and -VII. It is suggested that a number of rhodopsin-like 7TM receptors may function as two-domain structures based on the finding that a network of short loops has been highly conserved within each of the putative domains and, that these domains are separated by a relatively long and in respect of length poorly conserved loop, i.e. intracellular loop 3.
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- S M Nielsen
- Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Increased constitutive activity has been observed in the PTH receptor in association with naturally occurring mutations of two residues that are conserved between members of the glucagon/vasoactive intestinal peptide/calcitonin 7TM receptor family. Here, the corresponding residues of the glucagon receptor, His178 and Thr352, were probed by mutagenesis. An elevated level of basal cAMP production was observed after the exchange of His178 into Arg, but not for the exchange into Lys, Ala, or Glu. However, for all of these His178 substitutions, an increased binding affinity for glucagon was observed [dissociation constant (Kd) ranging from 1.1-6.4 nM, wild type: Kd = 12.0 nM]. A further increase in cAMP production was observed for the [H178R] construct upon stimulation with glucagon, albeit the EC50 surprisingly was increased approximately 10-fold relative to the wild-type receptor. Substitution of Thr352, located at the intracellular end of transmembrane segment VI, with Ala led to a slightly elevated basal cAMP level, while the introduction of Pro or Ser at this position affected rather the binding affinity of glucagon or the EC50 for stimulation of cAMP production. The large extracellular segment, which is essential for glucagon binding, was not required for constitutive activation of the glucagon receptor as the introduction of the [H178R] mutation into an N-terminally truncated construct exhibited an elevated basal level of cAMP production. The analog des-His1-[Glu9]glucagon amide, which in vivo is a glucagon antagonist, was an agonist on both the wild-type and the [H178R] receptor and did not display any activity as an inverse agonist. It is concluded that the various phenotypes displayed by the constitutively active glucagon receptor mutants reflect the existence of multiple agonist-preferring receptor conformers, which include functionally active as well as inactive states. This view agrees with a recent multi-state extension of the ternary complex model for 7TM receptor activation.
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- S A Hjorth
- Department of Pharmacology, The Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Holst B, Zoffmann S, Elling CE, Hjorth SA, Schwartz TW. Steric hindrance mutagenesis versus alanine scan in mapping of ligand binding sites in the tachykinin NK1 receptor. Mol Pharmacol 1998; 53:166-75. [PMID: 9443945 DOI: 10.1124/mol.53.1.166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Residues in transmembrane domain (TM)-III, TM-V, TM-VI, and TM-VII believed to be facing the deep part of the presumed main ligand-binding pocket of the NK1 receptor were probed by alanine substitution and introduction of residues with larger and/or chemically distinct side chains. Unaltered or even improved binding affinity for four peptide agonists, substance P, substance P-O-methyl ester, eledoisin, and neurokinin A, as well as normal EC50 values for substance P in stimulating phosphatidylinositol turnover indicated that these mutations did not alter the overall functional integrity of the receptor. The alanine substitutions in general had only minor effects on nonpeptide antagonist binding. However, the introduction of the larger and polar aspartic acid and histidine residues at positions corresponding to the monoamine binding aspartic acid in TM-III of the beta 2-adrenoceptor (ProIII:08, Pro112 in the NK1 receptor) and to the presumed monoamine interacting "two serines" in TM-V (ThrV:09, Thr201; and IleV:12, Ile204) impaired by > 100-fold the binding of a group of nonpeptide antagonists, including CP96,345, CP99,994, RP67,580, RPR100,893, and CAM4092. In contrast, another group of nonpeptide antagonists, LY303,870, FK888, and SR140,333, were little or not at all affected by the space-filling substitutions. Two of these compounds, FK888 and LY303,870, were those most seriously affected (75-89-fold) by alanine substitution of PheVI:20 located in the upper part of the main ligand-binding crevice. Surprisingly, substitution of AlaIII:11 (Ala115), which is located in the middle of TM-III, conceivably pointing toward TM-VII, with a larger valine residue increased the affinity for all 13 ligands tested, presumably by creating a closer interhelical packing. It is concluded that the introduction of larger side chains at positions at which molecular models indicate that this is structurally allowed can be a powerful method of locating ligand-binding sites due to the considerable difference between positive and negative results. Such steric hindrance mutagenesis strongly indicates that one population of nonpeptide antagonists bind in the deep pocket of the main ligand-binding crevice of the NK1 receptor, whereas another group of nonpeptide antagonists, especially SR140,333, was surprisingly resistant to mutational mapping in this pocket.
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- B Holst
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
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In their attempts to evade the host immune response, mammalian viruses have evolved a wide range of strategies. These include the expression and modification of various host cytokines and receptors. Understanding the mechanism of action of these virally encoded proteins will clearly deepen our insights into immunology. In the past few months several new virally encoded chemokines have been described which can modify both the host immune and antiviral response. Their manipulation of the cytokine structure-function relationship may also be useful in the development of reagents for treating immune and proliferative diseases.
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- T N Wells
- Geneva Biomedical Research Institute, Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development SA, Switzerland.
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Signoret N, Oldridge J, Pelchen-Matthews A, Klasse PJ, Tran T, Brass LF, Rosenkilde MM, Schwartz TW, Holmes W, Dallas W, Luther MA, Wells TN, Hoxie JA, Marsh M. Phorbol esters and SDF-1 induce rapid endocytosis and down modulation of the chemokine receptor CXCR4. J Cell Biol 1997; 139:651-64. [PMID: 9348282 PMCID: PMC2141706 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.3.651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 309] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The chemokine receptor CXCR4 is required, together with CD4, for entry by some isolates of HIV-1, particularly those that emerge late in infection. The use of CXCR4 by these viruses likely has profound effects on viral host range and correlates with the evolution of immunodeficiency. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1), the ligand for CXCR4, can inhibit infection by CXCR4-dependent viruses. To understand the mechanism of this inhibition, we used a monoclonal antibody that is specific for CXCR4 to analyze the effects of phorbol esters and SDF-1 on surface expression of CXCR4. On human T cell lines SupT1 and BC7, CXCR4 undergoes slow constitutive internalization (1.0% of the cell surface pool/min). Addition of phorbol esters increased this endocytosis rate >6-fold and reduced cell surface CXCR4 expression by 60 to 90% over 120 min. CXCR4 was internalized through coated pits and coated vesicles and subsequently localized in endosomal compartments from where it could recycle to the cell surface after removal of the phorbol ester. SDF-1 also induced the rapid down modulation (half time approximately 5 min) of CXCR4. Using mink lung epithelial cells expressing CXCR4 and a COOH-terminal deletion mutant of CXCR4, we found that an intact cytoplasmic COOH-terminal domain was required for both PMA and ligand-induced CXCR4 endocytosis. However, experiments using inhibitors of protein kinase C indicated that SDF-1 and phorbol esters trigger down modulation through different cellular mechanisms. SDF-1 inhibited HIV-1 infection of mink cells expressing CD4 and CXCR4. The inhibition of infection was less efficient for CXCR4 lacking the COOH-terminal domain, suggesting at least in part that SDF-1 inhibition of virus infection was mediated through ligand-induced internalization of CXCR4. Significantly, ligand induced internalization of CXCR4 but not CD4, suggesting that CXCR4 and CD4 do not normally physically interact on the cell surface. Together these studies indicate that endocytosis can regulate the cell-surface expression of CXCR4 and that SDF-1-mediated down regulation of cell-surface coreceptor expression contributes to chemokine-mediated inhibition of HIV infection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/physiology
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Binding, Competitive
- CHO Cells
- Cell Line
- Cell Membrane/physiology
- Chemokine CXCL12
- Chemokines/pharmacology
- Chemokines, CXC
- Clathrin/physiology
- Coated Pits, Cell-Membrane/physiology
- Cricetinae
- Down-Regulation/drug effects
- Endocytosis/drug effects
- Endosomes/drug effects
- Endosomes/metabolism
- Humans
- Mink
- Phorbol Esters/pharmacology
- Receptors, CXCR4/biosynthesis
- Receptors, CXCR4/immunology
- Receptors, CXCR4/physiology
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Stromal Cells/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- N Signoret
- Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Biochemistry, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- C A Maggi
- Menarini Ricerche Spa, Firenze, Italy
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Kledal TN, Rosenkilde MM, Coulin F, Simmons G, Johnsen AH, Alouani S, Power CA, Lüttichau HR, Gerstoft J, Clapham PR, Clark-Lewis I, Wells TN, Schwartz TW. A broad-spectrum chemokine antagonist encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Science 1997; 277:1656-9. [PMID: 9287217 DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5332.1656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 341] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus encodes a chemokine called vMIP-II. This protein displayed a broader spectrum of receptor activities than any mammalian chemokine as it bound with high affinity to a number of both CC and CXC chemokine receptors. Binding of vMIP-II, however, was not associated with the normal, rapid mobilization of calcium from intracellular stores; instead, it blocked calcium mobilization induced by endogenous chemokines. In freshly isolated human monocytes the virally encoded vMIP-II acted as a potent and efficient antagonist of chemotaxis induced by chemokines. Because vMIP-II could inhibit cell entry of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) mediated through CCR3 and CCR5 as well as CXCR4, this protein may serve as a lead for development of broad-spectrum anti-HIV agents.
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- T N Kledal
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Turcatti G, Zoffmann S, Lowe JA, Drozda SE, Chassaing G, Schwartz TW, Chollet A. Characterization of non-peptide antagonist and peptide agonist binding sites of the NK1 receptor with fluorescent ligands. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:21167-75. [PMID: 9261122 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.34.21167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Ligand recognition of the NK1 receptor (substance P receptor) by peptide agonist and non-peptide antagonist has been investigated and compared by the use of fluorescent ligands and spectrofluorometric methods. Analogues of substance P (SP) labeled with the environment-sensitive fluorescent group 5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonyl (dansyl) at either position 3, 8, or 11 or with fluorescein at the Nalpha position were synthesized and characterized. Peptides modified at the alpha-amino group or at positions 3 or 11 conserved a relatively good affinity for NK1 and agonistic properties. Modification at position 8 resulted in an 18, 000-fold decrease in affinity. A fluorescent dansyl analogue of the non-peptide antagonist CP96,345 was prepared and characterized. The quantum yield of fluorescence for dansyl-CP96,345 was much higher than for any of the dansyl-labeled peptides indicating that the micro-environment of the binding site is more hydrophobic for the non-peptide antagonist than for the peptide agonists. Comparison of collisional quenching of fluorescence by the water-soluble hydroxy-Tempo compound showed that dansyl-CP96,345 is buried and virtually inaccessible to aqueous quenchers, whereas dansyl- or fluoresceinyl-labeled peptides were exposed to the solvent. Anisotropy of all fluorescent ligands increased upon binding to NK1 indicating a restricted motional freedom. However, this increase in anisotropy was more pronounced for the dansyl attached to the non-peptide antagonist CP96,345 than for the fluorescent probes attached to different positions of SP. In conclusion, our data indicate that the environment surrounding non-peptide antagonist and peptide agonists are vastly different when bound to the NK1 receptor. These results support recent observations by mutagenesis and cross-linking work suggesting that peptide agonists have their major interaction points in the N-terminal extension and the loops forming the extracellular face of the NK1 receptor. Our data also suggest that neither the C terminus nor the N terminus of SP appears to penetrate deeply below the extracellular surface in the transmembrane domain of the receptor.
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- G Turcatti
- Geneva Biomedical Research Institute, Glaxo Wellcome, CH-1228 Geneva, Switzerland
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- T W Schwartz
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Elling CE, Thirstrup K, Nielsen SM, Hjorth SA, Schwartz TW. Metal-ion sites as structural and functional probes of helix-helix interactions in 7TM receptors. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 814:142-51. [PMID: 9160966 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb46152.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- C E Elling
- Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Rigshospitalet 6321, Copenhagen, Denmark
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