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. 2006 Dec;99(6):1505-16.
doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.04220.x. Epub 2006 Oct 25.

Alternative splicing of RGS8 gene changes the binding property to the M1 muscarinic receptor to confer receptor type-specific Gq regulation

Masayuki Itoh  1 , Katsuhiro Nagatomo, Yoshihiro Kubo, Osamu Saitoh
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Alternative splicing of RGS8 gene changes the binding property to the M1 muscarinic receptor to confer receptor type-specific Gq regulation

Masayuki Itoh et al. J Neurochem. 2006 Dec.
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Abstract

RGS proteins constitute a large family that modulates heterotrimeric G-protein signaling. We previously showed that RGS8 suppressed Gq signaling in a receptor type-specific manner. To elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying receptor-specific attenuation by RGS8, we examined whether RGS8 can interact with certain G-protein-coupled receptors. By pull-down assay, we showed that RGS8 directly binds to the third intracellular (i3) loop of M1 and M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs). The binding of RGS8S, a splice variant with a different N-terminus, was weaker. RGS8 could bind specifically to the C-terminal part of M1i3 (containing amino acids of 304-353 of i3 of human M1-mAChR), but RGS8S could not. Moreover, deletion of the N-terminal 9 amino acids and substitution of both Arg-8 and Arg-9 of RGS8 with Ala resulted in reduced binding to M1i3. BRET experiments revealed that RGS8 actually interacts with M1-mAChR, but RGS8S does not interact in the living cells. The RGS8 mutant, which had less binding ability to M1i3, showed a reduced inhibitory function of Gq signaling through M1-mAChR. These results demonstrated that RGS8 can directly interact with M1-mAChR via its N-terminus and the i3 loop of the receptor, and this binding must play an essential role in receptor-specific suppression by RGS8.

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