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ARDB |
Receptor
Mutation Detail Information |
| Receptor
Name: |
A1AA_BOVIN |
| Mutation
Type: |
Substitution |
| Mutation
Class: |
Multiple |
Mutation Site: |
271 |
| Original AA: |
Ala |
| Mutation
Result: |
Leu |
| Mutation
Domain: |
Mutation
Occurs at ICL3 of the Receptor. |
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| Related
Reference: |
Pubmed ID: 10636913 |
| Detail
Description : |
Activation of alpha(1)-adrenergic receptors influences both the contractile activity and the growth potential of cardiac myocytes. However, the signaling pathways linking activation of specific alpha(1)-adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes to these physiological responses remain controversial. In the present study, a molecular approach was used to identify conclusively the signaling pathways activated in response to the individual alpha(1A)- and alpha(1B)-AR subtypes in cardiac myocytes. For this purpose, a mutant alpha(1a)-AR subtype (alpha(1a)-S(290/293)-AR) was constructed based on analogy to the previously described constitutively active mutant alpha(1b)-AR subtype (alpha(1b)-S(288-294)-AR). The mutant alpha(1a)-S(290/293)-AR subtype displayed constitutive activity based on four criteria. To introduce the constitutively active alpha(1)-AR subtypes into cardiac myocytes, recombinant Sindbis viruses encoding either the alpha(1a)-S(290/293)-AR or alpha(1b)-S(288-294)-AR subtype were used to infect the whole cell population with >90% efficiency, thereby allowing the biochemical activities of the various signaling pathways to be measured. When expressed at comparable levels, the alpha(1a)-S(290/293)-AR subtype exhibited a significantly elevated basal level as well as agonist-stimulated level of inositol phosphate accumulation, coincident with activation of atrial natriuretic factor-luciferase gene expression. By contrast, the alpha(1b)-S(288-294)-AR subtype displayed a markedly increased serum response element-luciferase gene expression but no activation of atrial natriuretic factor-luciferase gene expression. Taken together, this study provides the first molecular evidence for coupling of the alpha(1a)-AR and the alpha(1b)-AR subtypes to different signaling pathways in cardiac myocytes. |
| Work
Group : |
Henry Hood Research Program, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Danville, Pennsylvania 17822-2614, USA. |
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