Protein-protein interaction and not glycosylation determines the binding selectivity of heterodimers between the calcitonin receptor-like receptor and the receptor activity-modifying proteins
Protein-protein interaction and not glycosylation determines the binding selectivity of heterodimers between the calcitonin receptor-like receptor and the receptor activity-modifying proteins
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10.1074/jbc.m102722200
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发表时间:
2001-08-03
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4.8
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Bouvier, M
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作者:
Hilairet, S;Foord, SM;Bouvier, M
The receptor activity-modifying proteins (RAMPs) and the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CRLR) are both required to generate adrenomedullin (AM) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptors. A mature, fully glycosylated, form of CRLR was associated with I-125-CGRP binding, upon co-expression of RAMP1 and CRLR. In contrast, RAMP2 and -3 promoted the expression of smaller, core-glycosylated, CRLR forms, which were linked to AM receptor pharmacology. Since core glycosylation is classically a trademark of immature proteins, we tested the hypothesis that the core-glycosylated CRLR forms the AM receptor. Although significant amounts of core-glycosylated CRLR were produced upon co-expression with RAMP2 or -3, crosslinking experiments revealed that I-125-AM only bound to the fully glycosylated forms. Similarly, I-125-CGRP selectively recognized the mature CRLR species upon co-expression with RAMP1, indicating that the glycosylation does not determine ligand-binding selectivity. Our results also show that the three RAMPs lie close to the peptide binding pocket within the CRLR-RAMP heterodimers, since I-125-AM and I-125-CGRP were incorporated in RAMP2, -3, and -1, respectively. Cross-linking also stabilized the peptide-CRLR-RAMP ternary complexes, with the expected ligand selectivity, indicating that the fully processed heterodimers represent the functional receptors. Overall, the data indicate that direct protein-protein interactions dictate the pharmacological properties of the CRLR-RAMP complexes.