Interdomain movements in metabotropic glutamate receptor activation
Interdomain movements in metabotropic glutamate receptor activation
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代谢型谷氨酸受体激活中的域间运动
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1107775108
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发表时间：
2011-09-13
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Rondard, Philippe
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作者：
Huang, Siluo;Cao, Jianhua;Rondard, Philippe
Many cell surface receptors are multimeric proteins, composed of several structural domains, some involved in ligand recognition, whereas others are responsible for signal transduction. In most cases, the mechanism of how ligand interaction in the extracellular domains leads to the activation of effector domains remains largely unknown. Here we examined how the extracellular ligand binding to the venus flytrap (VFT) domains of the dimeric metabotropic glutamate receptors activate the seven transmembrane (7TM) domains responsible for G protein activation. These two domains are interconnected by a cysteine-rich domain (CRD). We show that any of the four disulfide bridges of the CRD are required for the allosteric coupling between the VFT and the 7TM domains. More importantly, we show that a specific association of the two CRDs corresponds to the active state of the receptor. Indeed, a specific crosslinking of the CRDs with intersubunit disulfide bridges leads to fully constitutively active receptors, no longer activated by agonists nor by allosteric modulators. These data demonstrate that intersubunit movement at the level of the CRDs represents a key step in metabotropic glutamate receptor activation.
