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Detection of Ligand-activated G Protein-coupled Receptor Internalization by Confocal Microscopy
Published on: April 9, 2017
The coupling of 5-oxo-eicosanoid receptors to heterotrimeric G proteins
J T O'Flaherty1, J S Taylor, M Kuroki
1Department of Medicine, Section on Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. joflaher@wfubmc
Abstract:
5-Oxo-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-oxoETE) stimulated human neutrophil (PMN) and eosinophil chemotaxis, PMN hexose uptake, and PMN membrane GTP/GDP exchange. Pertussis toxin (PT), a blocker of heterotrimeric G proteins (GP), completely inhibited these responses, but proved far less effective on the same responses when elicited by leukotriene B4, C5a, FMLP, platelet-activating factor, IL-8, or RANTES chemotactic factors. 5-OxoETE also specifically bound to the membrane preparations that conducted GTP/GDP exchange. This binding was down-regulated by GTPgammaS, but not ADPgammaS, and displaced by 5-oxoETE analogues, but not by leukotriene B4, lipoxin A4, or lipoxin B4. Finally, PMN expressed PT-sensitive GP alphaiota2 and PT-resistant GP alphaq/11- and alpha13-chains; eosinophils expressed only alphai2 and alphaq/11. We conclude that 5-oxoETE activates granulocytes through a unique receptor that couples preferentially to PT-sensitive GP. The strict dependency of this putative receptor on PT-sensitive GP may underlie the limited actions of 5-oxoETE, compared with other CF, and help clarify the complex relations between receptors, GP, cell signals, and cell responses.
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