Publication Date:
1988-07-22
Description:
The alpha subunits of Gs and Gi link different sets of hormone receptors to stimulation and inhibition, respectively, of adenylyl cyclase. A chimeric alpha i/alpha s cDNA was constructed that encodes a polypeptide composed of the amino terminal 60% of an alpha i chain and the carboxyl terminal 40% of alpha s. The cDNA was introduced via a retroviral vector into S49 cyc- cells, which lack endogenous alpha s. Although less than half of the hybrid alpha chain is derived from alpha s, its ability to mediate beta-adrenoceptor stimulation of adenylyl cyclase matched that of the normal alpha s polypeptide expressed from the same retroviral vector in cyc- cells. This result indicates that carboxyl terminal amino acid sequences of alpha s contain the structural features that are required for specificity of interactions with the effector enzyme, adenylyl cyclase, as well as with the hormone receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Masters, S B -- Sullivan, K A -- Miller, R T -- Beiderman, B -- Lopez, N G -- Ramachandran, J -- Bourne, H R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 22;241(4864):448-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2899356" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenylyl Cyclases/*physiology
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Animals
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Cell Line
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Cell Membrane/physiology
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Cholera Toxin/pharmacology
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Colforsin/pharmacology
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Enzyme Activation
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GTP-Binding Proteins/*physiology
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Guanosine Triphosphate/pharmacology
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Isoproterenol/pharmacology
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Mice
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Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/*physiology
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Recombinant Proteins
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Somatostatin/pharmacology
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Structure-Activity Relationship
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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