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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 15, 2001, 21(20):8043-8052
GABAB2 Is Essential for G-Protein Coupling of the
GABAB Receptor Heterodimer
Melanie J.
Robbins2,
Andrew R.
Calver1,
Alexander K.
Filippov4,
Warren D.
Hirst1,
Robert B.
Russell3,
Martyn D.
Wood2,
Shabina
Nasir1,
Andrés
Couve4, 5,
David A.
Brown4,
Stephen J.
Moss4, 5, and
Menelas N.
Pangalos1
Departments of 1 Neurology Centre of Excellence
for Drug Discovery (CEDD) and 2 Psychiatry CEDD and
3 Bioinformatics Research Group, GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, Essex CM19 5AW, United Kingdom, and
4 Department of Pharmacology and 5 Medical
Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University
College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
GABAB receptors are unique among
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in their requirement for
heterodimerization between two homologous subunits, GABAB1
and GABAB2, for functional expression. Whereas
GABAB1 is capable of binding receptor agonists and
antagonists, the role of each GABAB subunit in receptor
signaling is unknown. Here we identified amino acid residues within the
second intracellular domain of GABAB2 that are critical for
the coupling of GABAB receptor heterodimers to their
downstream effector systems. Our results provide strong evidence for a
functional role of the GABAB2 subunit in G-protein coupling
of the GABAB receptor heterodimer. In addition, they
provide evidence for a novel "sequential" GPCR signaling mechanism
in which ligand binding to one heterodimer subunit can induce signal
transduction through the second partner of a heteromeric complex.
Key words:
GABAB; GPCR; dimerization; signaling; G-protein coupling; receptor subunits
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21208043-10$05.00/0
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