A universal technology for monitoring G‐protein‐coupled receptor activation in vitro and noninvasively in live animals

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 3819-3826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Degenfeld ◽  
Tom S. Wehrman ◽  
Mark M. Hammer ◽  
Helen M. Blau
Keyword(s):  
G Protein ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptor ◽  
G Protein Coupled

scholarly journals A Structural Insight into the Reorientation of Transmembrane Domains 3 and 5 during Family A G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamonchanok Sansuk ◽  
Xavier Deupi ◽  
Ivan R. Torrecillas ◽  
Aldo Jongejan ◽  
Saskia Nijmeijer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
G Protein ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
Transmembrane Domains ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptor ◽  
Structural Insight ◽  
G Protein Coupled ◽  
Insight Into

A generic microfluidic biosensor of G protein-coupled receptor activation – impedance measurements of reversible morphological changes of reverse transfected HEK293 cells on microelectrodes

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (65) ◽  
pp. 52563-52570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh K. Srivastava ◽  
Rajesh Ramaneti ◽  
Margriet Roelse ◽  
Hien Duy Tong ◽  
Elwin X. Vrouwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
G Protein ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
Membrane Receptors ◽  
Hek293 Cells ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptor ◽  
Impedance Measurements ◽  
Transfected Cells ◽  
Microfluidic Biosensor ◽  
G Protein Coupled

Flowcell with micro-IDEs (250–500 μm) covered with both stable and reverse transfected cells overexpressing membrane receptors to demonstrate impedance responses to serial injections of analyte.

scholarly journals Regulation of the Epithelial Na+ Channel by the RH Domain of G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase, GRK2, and Gαq/11

2011 ◽  
Vol 286 (22) ◽  
pp. 19259-19269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Il-Ha Lee ◽  
Sung-Hee Song ◽  
Craig R. Campbell ◽  
Sharad Kumar ◽  
David I. Cook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
G Protein ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
Na Channel ◽  
G Protein Signaling ◽  
Protein Signaling ◽  
Receptor Kinase ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptor ◽  
G Protein Coupled ◽  
Α Subunits

The G protein-coupled receptor kinase (GRK2) belongs to a family of protein kinases that phosphorylates agonist-activated G protein-coupled receptors, leading to G protein-receptor uncoupling and termination of G protein signaling. GRK2 also contains a regulator of G protein signaling homology (RH) domain, which selectively interacts with α-subunits of the Gq/11 family that are released during G protein-coupled receptor activation. We have previously reported that kinase activity of GRK2 up-regulates activity of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) in a Na+ absorptive epithelium by blocking Nedd4-2-dependent inhibition of ENaC. In the present study, we report that GRK2 also regulates ENaC by a mechanism that does not depend on its kinase activity. We show that a wild-type GRK2 (wtGRK2) and a kinase-dead GRK2 mutant (K220RGRK2), but not a GRK2 mutant that lacks the C-terminal RH domain (ΔRH-GRK2) or a GRK2 mutant that cannot interact with Gαq/11/14 (D110AGRK2), increase activity of ENaC. GRK2 up-regulates the basal activity of the channel as a consequence of its RH domain binding the α-subunits of Gq/11. We further found that expression of constitutively active Gαq/11 mutants significantly inhibits activity of ENaC. Conversely, co-expression of siRNA against Gαq/11 increases ENaC activity. The effect of Gαq on ENaC activity is not due to change in ENaC membrane expression and is independent of Nedd4-2. These findings reveal a novel mechanism by which GRK2 and Gq/11 α-subunits regulate the activity ENaC.

scholarly journals An Efficient Strategy to Estimate Thermodynamics and Kinetics of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation Using Metadynamics and Maximum Caliber

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Meral ◽  
Davide Provasi ◽  
Marta Filizola
Keyword(s):  
G Protein ◽  
Adaptive Sampling ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
Conformational Space ◽  
Kinetic Properties ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptor ◽  
Efficient Strategy ◽  
Gpcr Activation ◽  
Kinetic Rates ◽  
G Protein Coupled

ABSTRACTComputational strategies aimed at unveiling the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) activation require extensive molecular dynamics simulations of the receptor embedded in an explicit lipid-water environment. A possible method for efficiently sampling the conformational space of such a complex system is metadynamics (MetaD) with path collective variables (CV). Here, we applied well-tempered MetaD with path CVs to one of the few GPCRs for which both inactive and fully active experimental structures are available, the μ-opioid receptor (MOR), and assessed the ability of this enhanced sampling method to estimate thermodynamic properties of receptor activation in line with those obtained by more computationally expensive adaptive sampling protocols. While n-body information theory (nBIT) analysis of these simulations confirmed that MetaD can efficiently characterize ligand-induced allosteric communication across the receptor, standard MetaD cannot be used directly to derive kinetic rates because transitions are accelerated by a bias potential. Applying the principle of Maximum Caliber (MaxCal) to the free-energy landscape of morphine-bound MOR reconstructed from MetaD, we obtained Markov State Models (MSMs) that yield kinetic rates of MOR activation in agreement with those obtained by adaptive sampling. Taken together, these results suggest that the MetaD-MaxCal combination creates an efficient strategy for estimating thermodynamic and kinetic properties of GPCR activation at an affordable computational cost.

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