Thaker Tarjani M, Kaya Ali I, Preininger Anita M, Hamm Heidi E, Iverson T M
Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2012;796:133-74. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-334-9_8.
G protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) use a complex series of intramolecular conformational changes to couple agonist binding to the binding and activation of cognate heterotrimeric G protein (Gαβγ). The mechanisms underlying this long-range activation have been identified using a variety of biochemical and structural approaches and have primarily used visual signal transduction via the GPCR rhodopsin and cognate heterotrimeric G protein transducin (G(t)) as a model system. In this chapter, we review the methods that have revealed allosteric signaling through rhodopsin and transducin. These methods can be applied to a variety of GPCR-mediated signaling pathways.
G蛋白偶联受体(GPCRs)利用一系列复杂的分子内构象变化,将激动剂结合与同源异源三聚体G蛋白(Gαβγ)的结合和激活偶联起来。这种远程激活的潜在机制已通过多种生化和结构方法得以确定,并且主要以通过GPCR视紫红质和同源异源三聚体G蛋白转导素(G(t))进行的视觉信号转导作为模型系统。在本章中,我们回顾了揭示通过视紫红质和转导素进行变构信号传导的方法。这些方法可应用于多种GPCR介导的信号通路。