Journal
BIOMOLECULES
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom12060761
Keywords
protein-coupled receptor; yeast pheromone receptor; yeast mating pathway; substituted cysteine accessibility method; disulfide crosslinking; second-site suppressor; constitutively active receptor; dominant-negative receptor; receptor oligomerization
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM084083, RO1GM05 9357, R01GM114974, U54GM074899, U54GM094611, R01AI047837, RO1GM116 048]
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor mating pheromone receptor (Ste2p) has been studied extensively to understand the mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptors. Genetic and biochemical strategies have been effective in revealing the structure-function relationship of Ste2p and its conformational changes upon activation. Recent cryo-EM structures provide valuable insights for studying other proteins.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor mating pheromone receptor (Ste2p) has been studied as a model for the large medically important family of G protein-coupled receptors. Diverse yeast genetic screens and high-throughput mutagenesis of STE2 identified a large number of loss-of-function, constitutively-active, dominant-negative, and intragenic second-site suppressor mutants as well as mutations that specifically affect pheromone binding. Facile genetic manipulation of Ste2p also aided in targeted biochemical approaches, such as probing the aqueous accessibility of substituted cysteine residues in order to identify the boundaries of the seven transmembrane segments, and the use of cysteine disulfide crosslinking to identify sites of intramolecular contacts in the transmembrane helix bundle of Ste2p and sites of contacts between the monomers in a Ste2p dimer. Recent publication of a series of high-resolution cryo-EM structures of Ste2p in ligand-free, agonist-bound and antagonist-bound states now makes it possible to evaluate the results of these genetic and biochemical strategies, in comparison to three-dimensional structures showing activation-related conformational changes. The results indicate that the genetic and biochemical strategies were generally effective, and provide guidance as to how best to apply these experimental strategies to other proteins. These strategies continue to be useful in defining mechanisms of signal transduction in the context of the available structures and suggest aspects of receptor function beyond what can be discerned from the available structures.
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