Drosophila melanogaster G protein-coupled receptors.
Drosophila melanogaster G protein-coupled receptors.
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10.1083/jcb.150.2.f83
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2000-07-24
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通讯作者:
Cravchik A
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Brody T;Cravchik A
The G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) 1 constitute a large and ancient superfamily of integral cell membrane proteins that play a central role in signal transduction and are activated by an equally diverse array of ligands. GPCRs share a seven hydrophobic-helical domain structure and transduce signals through coupling to guanine nucleotide–binding regulatory proteins (G proteins). The seven hydrophobic domains are likely to span the membrane and are linked by three extracellular loops that alternate with three intracellular loops. The extracellular NH2 terminus is usually glycosylated and the cytoplasmic COOH terminus is generally phosphorylated. The presence of a large diversity of GPCR genes may be a characteristic of eukaryotic genomes since 1,000 GPCRs have been identified in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome, representing 5% of its total number of genes (Bargmann, 1998). The completion of the sequencing of the Drosophila melanogaster genome allows the analysis of its full repertoire of GPCRs for the first time. Do Drosophila GPCRs have counterparts in other phyla, or do they reflect a highly specialized insect biology? The Drosophila genome contains 200 genes coding for GPCRs, including neurotransmitter and hormone receptors, and olfactory and putative taste receptors (Adams et al., 2000; Clyne et al., 2000; Rubin et al., 2000). We have identified 100 genes in the Drosophila genome that code for putative neurotransmitter and hormone GPCRs and atypical seventransmembrane domain (7 TM) proteins, 68 of which are described here for the first time (Fig. 1, red). These genes were manually curated after the use of gene prediction programs Genie and Genscan (Adams et al., 2000), resulting in an enhanced definition of predicted gene structures. Drosophila GPCRs are classified into four families: rhodopsin-like (Fig. 1 A); secretin-like (Fig. 1 B); metabotropic glutamate–like (Fig. 1 C); and atypical 7 TM proteins (Fig. 1 D). This classification is based on primary and secondary structure predictions, sequence analysis using profile hidden Markov models, and sequence homology searches using BLAST. Despite the greater number and diversity of GPCRs in vertebrates and C. elegans as compared with Drosophila, the data point to conservation of hormone and neurotransmitter receptors across phyla, suggesting ancient evolutionary origins.
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作者:
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DOI:
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发表时间:
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影响因子:
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