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Complexes between photoactivated rhodopsin and transducin: progress and questions.


ABSTRACT: Activation of GPCRs (G-protein-coupled receptors) leads to conformational changes that ultimately initiate signal transduction. Activated GPCRs transiently combine with and activate heterotrimeric G-proteins resulting in GTP replacement of GDP on the G-protein alpha subunit. Both the detailed structural changes essential for productive GDP/GTP exchange on the G-protein alpha subunit and the structure of the GPCR-G-protein complex itself have yet to be elucidated. Nevertheless, transient GPCR-G-protein complexes can be trapped by nucleotide depletion, yielding an empty-nucleotide G-protein-GPCR complex that can be isolated. Whereas early biochemical studies indicated formation of a complex between G-protein and activated receptor only, more recent results suggest that G-protein can bind to pre-activated states of receptor or even couple transiently to non-activated receptor to facilitate rapid responses to stimuli. Efficient and reproducible formation of physiologically relevant, conformationally homogenous GPCR-G-protein complexes is a prerequisite for structural studies designed to address these possibilities.

SUBMITTER: Jastrzebska B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2875673 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Complexes between photoactivated rhodopsin and transducin: progress and questions.

Jastrzebska Beata B   Tsybovsky Yaroslav Y   Palczewski Krzysztof K  

The Biochemical journal 20100428 1


Activation of GPCRs (G-protein-coupled receptors) leads to conformational changes that ultimately initiate signal transduction. Activated GPCRs transiently combine with and activate heterotrimeric G-proteins resulting in GTP replacement of GDP on the G-protein alpha subunit. Both the detailed structural changes essential for productive GDP/GTP exchange on the G-protein alpha subunit and the structure of the GPCR-G-protein complex itself have yet to be elucidated. Nevertheless, transient GPCR-G-p  ...[more]

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