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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 40, 期 41, 页码 12339-12348出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi011204a
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH54137] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [MYH57324] Funding Source: Medline
The binding site of the dopamine D2 receptor, like that of homologous G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), is contained within a water-accessible crevice formed among its seven transmembrane segments (TMs). Using the substituted-cysteine-accessibility method (SCAM), we are mapping the residues that contribute to the surface of this binding-site crevice. We have now mutated to cysteine, one at a time, 21 consecutive residues in TM1. Six of these mutants reacted with charged sulfhydryl reagents, whereas bound antagonist only protected N52(1.50)C from reaction. Except for A38(1.36)C, none of the substituted cysteine mutants in the extracellular half of TM1 appeared to be accessible. Pro(1.48) is highly conserved in opsins, but absent in catecholamine receptors, and the high-resolution rhodopsin structure showed that Pro(1.48) bends the extracellular portion of TMI inward toward TM2 and TM7. Analysis of the conversation of residues in the extracellular portion of TMI of opsins showed a pattern consistent with a-helical structure with a conserved face. In contrast, this region in catecholamine receptors is poorly conserved, suggesting a lack of critical contacts. Thus, in catecholamine receptors in the absence of Pro(1.48), TMI may be straighter and therefore further from the helix bundle, consistent with the apparent lack of conserved contact residues. When examined in the context of a model of the D2 receptor, the accessible residues in the cytoplasmic half of TMI are at the interface with TM7 and with helix 8 (H8). We propose the existence of critical contacts of TM1, TM7, and HS that may stabilize the inactive state of the receptor.
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