TRUNCATION OF THE THYROTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE RECEPTOR CARBOXYL TAIL CAUSES CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVITY AND LEADS TO IMPAIRED RESPONSIVENESS INXENOPUS OOCYTES AND ATT20 CELLS
N. Matusleibovitch et al., TRUNCATION OF THE THYROTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE RECEPTOR CARBOXYL TAIL CAUSES CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVITY AND LEADS TO IMPAIRED RESPONSIVENESS INXENOPUS OOCYTES AND ATT20 CELLS, The Journal of biological chemistry, 270(3), 1995, pp. 1041-1047
We studied the activity of a truncated thyrotropin-releasing hormone r
eceptor (TRH-R), which lacks the last 59 amino acids of the carboxyl t
ail, where Cys-335 was mutated to a stop codon (C335Stop) (Nussenzveig
, D. R., Heinflink, M., and Gershengorn, M. C. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 2
68, 2389-2392). In Xenopus laevis oocytes expressing C335Stop TRH-Rs,
TRH binding was higher, whereas chloride current, Ca-45(2+) efflux, an
d [Ca2+](i) responses evoked by TRH were 23, 39, and 21%, respectively
, of those in oocytes expressing wild type mouse pituitary TRH-Rs (WT
TRH-Rs). In oocytes expressing C335Stop TRH-Rs, basal Ca-45(2+) efflux
and [Ca2+](i) were twice those in oocytes expressing WT TRH-Rs; chela
tion of Ca2+ caused a rapid increase in holding current, which is cons
istent with basal activation; and coexpression with other receptors ca
used inhibition of the responses to the other cognate agonists. In AtT
20 pituitary cells stably expressing C335Stop TRH-Rs, thyrotropin-rele
asing hormone (TRH)-independent inositol phosphate formation was 1.32
+/- 0.11-fold higher, basal [Ca2+](i) was 1.8 +/- 0.2-fold higher, and
the [Ca2+](i) response to TRH was much lower than in cells expressing
WT TRH-Rs. We conclude that a TRH-R mutant truncated at Cys-335 exhib
its constitutive activity that results in desensitization of the respo
nse to TRH.