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Distinct loops in arrestin differentially regulate ligand binding within the GPCR opsin.


ABSTRACT: G-protein-coupled receptors are universally regulated by arrestin binding. Here we show that rod arrestin induces uptake of the agonist all-trans-retinal [corrected] in only half the population of phosphorylated opsin in the native membrane. Agonist uptake blocks subsequent entry of the inverse agonist 11-cis-retinal (that is, regeneration of rhodopsin), but regeneration is not blocked in the other half of aporeceptors. Environmentally sensitive fluorophores attached to arrestin reported that conformational changes in loop(V-VI) (N-domain) are coupled to the entry of agonist, while loop(XVIII-XIX) (C-domain) engages the aporeceptor even before agonist is added. The data are most consistent with a model in which each domain of arrestin engages its own aporeceptor, and the different binding preferences of the domains lead to asymmetric ligand binding by the aporeceptors. Such a mechanism would protect the rod cell in bright light by concurrently sequestering toxic all-trans-retinal [corrected] and allowing regeneration with 11-cis-retinal.

SUBMITTER: Sommer ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3455371 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Distinct loops in arrestin differentially regulate ligand binding within the GPCR opsin.

Sommer Martha E ME   Hofmann Klaus Peter KP   Heck Martin M  

Nature communications 20120101


G-protein-coupled receptors are universally regulated by arrestin binding. Here we show that rod arrestin induces uptake of the agonist all-trans-retinal [corrected] in only half the population of phosphorylated opsin in the native membrane. Agonist uptake blocks subsequent entry of the inverse agonist 11-cis-retinal (that is, regeneration of rhodopsin), but regeneration is not blocked in the other half of aporeceptors. Environmentally sensitive fluorophores attached to arrestin reported that co  ...[more]

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