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Identification of Kinase-substrate Pairs Using High Throughput Screening
Published on: August 29, 2015
アデニラートサイクラス結合カルシトニン受容体の発現クローニング
H Y Lin1, T L Harris, M S Flannery
1Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142.
まとめ
研究者らは,カルシトニン受容体補足DNA (cDNA) をクローンした. この新しい受容体は,循環性アデノシンモノフォスファート (cAMP) 信号伝達に機能的に結合され,カルシウムホメオスタシスに関与する新しいGタンパク質結合受容体ファミリーを表しています.
科学分野:
- 分子生物学は分子生物学である.
- エンドクリノロジー エンドクリノロジー
- バイオケミストリー バイオケミストリー
背景:
- カルシトニンは,カルシウムホメオスタシスを調節する重要なホルモンです.
- カルシトニン受容体の分子同一性とファミリーは以前は知られていなかった.
- カルシウム調節ホルモン受容体の理解は,代謝研究にとって極めて重要です.
研究 の 目的:
- カルシトニン受容体の補完DNA (cDNA) をクローンし,特徴づけること.
- カルシトニン受容体の機能的結合とシグナル伝達経路を決定する.
- カルシトニン受容体の他のGタンパク質結合受容体との進化的関係を調査する.
主な方法:
- 豚の腎臓の上皮細胞系からCOS細胞で発現するカルシトニン受容体cDNAのクローン化.
- サーモンのカルシトニン (Kd) に対する親和性を決定する拘束力のある測定法.
- 機能的結合を評価するために細胞内サイクルアデノシンモノフォスファート (cAMP) レベルを測定する.
主要な成果:
- 482アミノ酸カルシトニン受容体cDNAをクローンに成功しました.
- この受容体は,サーモンのカルシトニン (Kd ≈ 6 nM) に高い親和性を示した.
- 細胞内cAMP濃度の上昇との機能的結合が実証されました.
結論:
- クローンされたカルシトニン受容体は,新しいGタンパク質結合受容体を表しています.
- 副甲状腺ホルモン-副甲状腺ホルモン関連ペプチド (PTH-PTHrP) 受容体との同質性を示し,新しい受容体ファミリーを示唆しています.
- この発見は,カルシウムホメオスタシス調節の分子機構の洞察を提供します.
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