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SUBMITTER: Mittal N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3870884 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mittal Nitish N Roberts Kristofer K Pal Katsuri K Bentolila Laurent A LA Fultz Elissa E Minasyan Ani A Cahill Catherine C Pradhan Amynah A Conner David D DeFea Kathryn K Evans Christopher C Walwyn Wendy W
Cell reports 20131114 4
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are typically present in a basal, inactive state but, when bound to an agonist, activate downstream signaling cascades. In studying arrestin regulation of opioid receptors in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons, we find that agonists of delta opioid receptors (δORs) activate cofilin through Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing protein kinase (ROCK), LIM domain kinase (LIMK), and β-arrestin 1 (β-arr1) to regulate actin polymerization. This controls receptor func ...[more]