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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages 1079-1084Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708862105
Keywords
5-HT2A receptor; G protein-coupled receptor; internalization; MAP kinase; schizophrenia
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA18860, R01 DA018860-04, K01 DA014600-06, F31DA219532, R01 DA018860, K01 DA014600] Funding Source: Medline
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Visual and auditory hallucinations accompany certain neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, and they also can be induced by the use or abuse of certain drugs. The heptahelical serotonin 2A receptors (5-HT2ARs) are molecular targets for drug-induced hallucinations. However, the cellular mechanisms by which the 5-HT2AR mediates these effects are not well understood. Drugs acting at the 5-HT2AR can trigger diverse signaling pathways that may be directed by the chemical properties of the drug. beta-arrestins are intracellular proteins that bind to heptahelical receptors and represent a point where such divergences in ligand-directed functional signaling could occur. Here we compare the endogenous agonist, serotonin, to a synthetic 5-HT2AR hallucinogenic agonist, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), in mice lacking beta-arrestin-2, as well as in cells lacking beta-arrestins. In mice, we find that serotonin induces a head twitch response by a beta-arrestin-2-dependent mechanism. However, DOI invokes the behavior independent of beta-arrestin-2. The two structurally distinct agonists elicit different signal transduction and trafficking patterns upon activation of 5-HT2AR, which hinge on the presence of beta-arrestins. Our study suggests that the 5-HT2AR-beta-arrestin interaction may be particularly important in receptor function in response to endogenous serotonin levels, which could have major implications in drug development for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.
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