Publication Date:
2012-07-17
Description:
Pharmacological responses of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can be fine-tuned by allosteric modulators. Structural studies of such effects have been limited due to the medium resolution of GPCR structures. We reengineered the human A(2A) adenosine receptor by replacing its third intracellular loop with apocytochrome b(562)RIL and solved the structure at 1.8 angstrom resolution. The high-resolution structure allowed us to identify 57 ordered water molecules inside the receptor comprising three major clusters. The central cluster harbors a putative sodium ion bound to the highly conserved aspartate residue Asp(2.50). Additionally, two cholesterols stabilize the conformation of helix VI, and one of 23 ordered lipids intercalates inside the ligand-binding pocket. These high-resolution details shed light on the potential role of structured water molecules, sodium ions, and lipids/cholesterol in GPCR stabilization and function.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399762/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399762/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Wei -- Chun, Eugene -- Thompson, Aaron A -- Chubukov, Pavel -- Xu, Fei -- Katritch, Vsevolod -- Han, Gye Won -- Roth, Christopher B -- Heitman, Laura H -- IJzerman, Adriaan P -- Cherezov, Vadim -- Stevens, Raymond C -- P50 GM073197/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM089857/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM094618/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Y1-CO-1020/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Y1-GM-1104/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 13;337(6091):232-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1219218.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22798613" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenosine A2 Receptor Agonists/metabolism
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Adenosine A2 Receptor Antagonists/metabolism
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Allosteric Regulation
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Cholesterol/chemistry
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Cytochrome b Group/chemistry
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Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry
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HEK293 Cells
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Humans
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Ligands
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Lipid Bilayers
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Lipids/chemistry
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Models, Molecular
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Engineering
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Receptor, Adenosine A2A/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Sodium/*analysis
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Triazines/metabolism
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Triazoles/metabolism
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Water/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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