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Mol Pharmacol

Title:		"The G protein-coupling profile of metabotropic glutamate receptors, as determined with exogenous G proteins, is independent of their ligand recognition domain"
Author(s):		Parmentier ML; Joly C; Restituito S; Bockaert J; Grau Y; Pin JP;
Address:		"UPR-9023 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institute National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale de Pharmacologie/Endocrinologie, Montpellier, France"
Journal Title:		Mol Pharmacol
Year:		1998
Volume:		53
Issue:		4
Page Number:		778 - 786
DOI:
ISSN/ISBN:		0026-895X (Print) 0026-895X (Linking)
Abstract:		"Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu), Ca2+-sensing, gamma-aminobutyric acidB, and a large number of pheromone receptors constitute a peculiar family of G protein-coupled receptors. They possess a large extracellular domain that has been proposed to constitute their ligand binding domain. The aim of the current study was to examine whether this large ligand binding domain had any influence on the G protein-coupling selectivity of the receptor, and vice versa. We chose mGlu receptors, which are classified into three groups according to their sequence homology and pharmacology, as representatives of this receptor family. To define a G protein-coupling profile for these receptors, we used a set of exogenous phospholipase C-activating G proteins in the same way that synthetic ligands are used to define agonist and antagonist pharmacological profiles. This set includes Galpha15, Galpha16, Galphaq, and chimeric Galphaq proteins with the last few amino acids of either Galphai2 (Galphaqi), Galphao (Galphaqo), or Galphaz (Galphaqz). Cotransfection of mGlu receptors with these G proteins and examination of their coupling to phospholipase C revealed that group I, II, and III receptors have distinct G protein-coupling profiles. By swapping the extracellular domains of the most distantly related mGlu receptors (the rat group I mGlu1a and the Drosophila melanogaster group II DmGluA receptors), we show that the extracellular domain determines the agonist pharmacological profile and that this domain does not modify the G protein-coupling profile determined by the seven-transmembrane-domain region of mGlu receptors"
Keywords:		"Amino Acid Sequence Animals Cell Line Drosophila melanogaster/genetics Embryo, Mammalian Embryo, Nonmammalian Extracellular Space/metabolism GTP-Binding Proteins/agonists/*metabolism/*physiology Glutamic Acid/pharmacology Humans Kidney Ligands Membrane Pr;"
Notes:		"MedlineParmentier, M L Joly, C Restituito, S Bockaert, J Grau, Y Pin, J P eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 1998/05/09 Mol Pharmacol. 1998 Apr; 53(4):778-86"