Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 28, Issue 9, Pages 1004-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2020.05.004
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- NIH [R01 GM-129012]
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Despite high-resolution crystal structures of both inactive and active G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), it is still not known how ligands trigger the large structural change on the intracellular side of the receptor since the conformational changes that occur within the extracellular ligand-binding region upon activation are subtle. Here, we use solid-state NMR and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on rhodopsin to show that Trp265(6.48) within the CWxP motif on transmembrane helix H6 constrains a proline hinge in the inactive state, suggesting that activation results in unraveling of the H6 backbone within this motif, a local change in dynamics that allows helix H6 to swing outward. Notably, Tyr301(7.48) within activation switch 2 appears to mimic the negative allosteric sodium ion found in other family A GPCRs, a finding that is broadly relevant to the mechanism of receptor activation.
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