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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 29, Pages 30219-30227Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M403595200
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA69212] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [K08 AI50147] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [P01 DK50305] Funding Source: Medline
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The chemokine receptor CXCR3 is a G protein-coupled receptor found predominantly on T cells that is activated by three ligands as follows: CXCL9 (Mig), CXCL10 (IP-10), and CXCL11 (I-TAC). Previously, we have found that of the three ligands, CXCL11 is the most potent inducer of CXCR3 internalization and is the physiologic inducer of CXCR3 internalization after T cell contact with activated endothelial cells. We have therefore hypothesized that these three ligands transduce different signals to CXCR3. In light of this hypothesis, we sought to determine whether regions of CXCR3 are differentially required for CXCL9, CXCL10, and CXCL11 function. Here we identified two distinct domains that contributed to CXCR3 internalization. The carboxyl-terminal domain and beta-arrestin1 were predominantly required by CXCL9 and CXCL10, and the third intracellular loop was predominantly required by CXCL11. Chemotaxis and calcium mobilization induced by all three CXCR3 ligands were dependent on the CXCR3 carboxyl terminus and the DRY sequence in the third trans-membrane domain. Our findings demonstrate that distinct domains of CXCR3 mediate its functions and suggest that the differential requirement of these domains contributes to the complexity of the chemokine system.
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