Identification of a region required for subtype-specific agonist-induced sequestration of the m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 1996 Feb 23;271(8):4215-22.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.271.8.4215.

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Identification of a region required for subtype-specific agonist-induced sequestration of the m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor

P S Goldman et al. J Biol Chem. 1996.

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Abstract

When the m1 and m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are transiently expressed in JEG-3 cells, the m2, but not the m1, receptor undergoes agonist-induced sequestration. Both receptors exhibit internalization when expressed in Y1 cells. These results suggest that the m1 and m2 receptors use distinct cellular mechanisms or pathways for agonist-induced internalization and that JEG-3 cells are deficient in the mechanism or pathway used by the m1 receptor. Transfection experiments with chimeric receptors indicate that the specificity for agonist-induced internalization for the m2 receptor lies in the carboxyl-terminal fifth of the receptor. The intracellular carboxyl-terminal tail of the m2 receptor is neither sufficient nor required for the m2-specific sequestration. Site-directed mutagenesis demonstrates that two amino acids in the carboxyl-terminal end of the third cytoplasmic loop of the m2 receptor are required for sequestration in JEG-3 cells. In addition, the sixth transmembrane domain, which is adjacent to this cytoplasmic domain, is also required. Thus, m2-specific agonist-induced sequestration requires sequences both in the carboxyl-terminal end of the third cytoplasmic loop and the adjacent transmembrane domain.

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