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Mol Pharmacol


Title:Domains determining ligand specificity for Ca2+ receptors
Author(s):Hammerland LG; Krapcho KJ; Garrett JE; Alasti N; Hung BC; Simin RT; Levinthal C; Nemeth EF; Fuller FH;
Address:"NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA. lhammerland@npsp.com"
Journal Title:Mol Pharmacol
Year:1999
Volume:55
Issue:4
Page Number:642 - 648
DOI:
ISSN/ISBN:0026-895X (Print) 0026-895X (Linking)
Abstract:"The Ca2+ receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that enables parathyroid cells and certain other cells in the body to respond to changes in the level of extracellular Ca2+. The Ca2+ receptor is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors that includes metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), gamma-aminobutyric acidB receptors, and putative pheromone receptors. As a family, these receptors are characterized by limited sequence homology and an unusually large putative extracellular domain (ECD). The ECD of the mGluRs is believed to determine agonist selectivity, but the functions of the structural domains of the Ca2+ receptor are not known. To identify structural determinants for cation recognition and activation of the Ca2+ receptor (and to further study the mGluRs), two chimeric receptors were constructed in which the large ECD of the Ca2+ receptor and the mGluR1 were interchanged. When expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes, one of these chimeras, named CaR/mGluR1 [ECD of the Ca2+ receptor and transmembrane domain (TMD) of the mGluR1], responded to cation agonists (Gd3+, Ca2+, neomycin) of the Ca2+ receptor at concentrations similar to those necessary for activation of the native Ca2+ receptor. A reciprocal construct, named mGluR1/CaR (ECD of the mGluR1 and TMD of the Ca2+ receptor), was responsive to mGluR agonists but was much less sensitive to two of three cation agonists known to activate the Ca2+ receptor. A deletion construct of the Ca2+ receptor (DeltantCaR), which lacked virtually the entire ECD, was only activated by one of three agonists tested. These results suggest that the primary determinants for agonist activation of both the Ca2+ receptor and the mGluRs are found in the large ECD and that the Ca2+ receptor is possibly distinguished from the mGluRs in that it may contain sites in the TMD that permit activation by certain cation agonists"
Keywords:"Animals Binding Sites Calcium-Binding Proteins/agonists/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism Ligands Oocytes/physiology Protein Conformation Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/agonists/genetics/metabolism Recombinant Fusion Proteins/agonists/metabolism Xenopus l;"
Notes:"MedlineHammerland, L G Krapcho, K J Garrett, J E Alasti, N Hung, B C Simin, R T Levinthal, C Nemeth, E F Fuller, F H eng 1999/04/01 Mol Pharmacol. 1999 Apr; 55(4):642-8"

 
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