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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 44, Pages 42744-42749Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M306133200
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD23226, R01 HD38060] Funding Source: Medline
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Signaling by the luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor (LHR) is of considerable interest because of its requirement for successful reproduction. Time-resolved phosphorescence anisotropy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer were used to investigate the organization of endogenous LHRs in porcine follicular membranes in two distinct signaling states, active and desensitized. Desensitized LHRs exhibited similar to 3-fold slower rotational correlation times compared with active LHRs ( 59 +/- 4 and 21 +/- 9 mus, respectively), suggesting that with agonist-dependent desensitization the receptors are organized into larger protein complexes. Incubation of membranes with inhibitors of LHR desensitization, such as neutralizing anti-arrestin antibodies, a synthetic peptide corresponding to the third intracellular loop of the LHR but not the corresponding scrambled peptide, or catalytically inactive ARNO, resulted in faster rotational diffusion times equivalent to those of actively signaling LHRs. Furthermore, desensitized LHRs exhibited a 2.4-fold increase in fluorescence resonance energy transfer between LHRs suggesting that the larger protein aggregates formed during desensitization contain more self-associated LHRs. These results indicate that agonist-dependent LHR desensitization precedes organization of LHRs at the cells surface into larger protein aggregates.
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