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ARDB |
Receptor
Mutation Detail Information |
| Receptor
Name: |
A1AA_RAT |
| Mutation
Type: |
Point Mutation |
| Mutation
Class: |
Single |
Mutation Site: |
187 |
| Original AA: |
Phe |
| Mutation
Result: |
Ala |
| Mutation
Domain: |
Mutation
Occurs at TM5 of the Receptor. |
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| Related
Reference: |
Pubmed ID: 10766790 |
| Detail
Description : |
We examined the role that aromatic residues located in the transmembrane helices of the alpha(1a)-adrenergic receptor play in promoting antagonist binding. Since alpha(1)-antagonists display low affinity binding at beta(2)-adrenergic receptors, two phenylalanine residues, Phe-163 and Phe-187, of the alpha(1a)-AR were mutated to the corresponding beta(2)-residue. Neither F163Q nor F187A mutations of the alpha(1a) had any effect on the affinity of the alpha(1)-antagonists. However, the affinity of the endogenous agonist epinephrine was reduced 12.5- and 8-fold by the F163Q and F187A mutations, respectively. An additive loss in affinity (150-fold) for epinephrine was observed at an alpha(1a) containing both mutations. The loss of agonist affinity scenario could be reversed by a gain of affinity with mutation of the corresponding residues in the beta(2) to the phenylalanine residues in the alpha(1a). We propose that both Phe-163 and Phe-187 are involved in independent aromatic interactions with the catechol ring of agonists. The potency but not the efficacy of epinephrine in stimulating phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis was reduced 35-fold at the F163Q/F187A alpha(1a) relative to the wild type receptor. Therefore, Phe-163 and Phe-187 represent novel binding contacts in the agonist binding pocket of the alpha(1a)-AR, but are not involved directly in receptor activation. |
| Work
Group : |
Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. |
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