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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 179, 期 16, 页码 4107-4116出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/bph.15846
关键词
arrestin trafficking; FRAP; FRET
资金
- Projekt DEAL
This study investigates the effect of agonist off-rates on the stability of GPCR-arrestin complexes and finds that phosphorylation patterns have an impact on the stability of the complex.
Background and Purpose The interaction of arrestins with G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) desensitizes agonist-dependent receptor responses and often leads to receptor internalization. GPCRs that internalize without arrestin have been classified as class A GPCRs whereas class B GPCRs co-internalize with arrestin into endosomes. The interaction of arrestins with GPCRs requires both agonist activation and receptor phosphorylation. Here, we ask the question whether agonists with very slow off-rates can cause the formation of particularly stable receptor-arrestin complexes. Experimental Approach The stability of GPCR-arrestin-3 complexes at two class A GPCRs, the beta(2)-adrenoceptor and the mu opioid receptor, was assessed using two different techniques, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) employing several ligands with very different off-rates. Arrestin trafficking was determined by confocal microscopy. Key Results Upon agonist washout, GPCR-arrestin-3 complexes showed markedly different dissociation rates in single-cell FRET experiments. In FRAP experiments, however, all full agonists led to the formation of receptor-arrestin complexes of identical stability whereas the complex between the mu receptor and arrestin-3 induced by the partial agonist morphine was less stable. Agonists with very slow off-rates could not mediate the co-internalization of arrestin-3 with class A GPCRs into endosomes. Conclusions and Implications Agonist off-rates do not affect the stability of GPCR-arrestin complexes but phosphorylation patterns do. Our results imply that orthosteric agonists are not able to pharmacologically convert class A into class B GPCRs.
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