Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Protein Sci. 2018 Apr;27(4):874-879. doi: 10.1002/pro.3385. Epub 2018 Feb 23.
Detection of protein-protein interactions involved in signal transduction in live cells and organisms has a variety of important applications. We report a fluorogenic assay for G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-β-arrestin interaction that is genetically encoded, generalizes to multiple GPCRs, and features high signal-to-noise because fluorescence is absent until its components interact upon GPCR activation. Fluorescence after protease-activated receptor-1 activation developed in minutes and required specific serine-threonine residues in the receptor carboxyl tail, consistent with a classical G protein-coupled receptor kinase dependent β-arrestin recruitment mechanism. This assay provides a useful complement to other in vivo assays of GPCR activation.
检测活细胞和生物体内信号转导涉及的蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用具有多种重要的应用。我们报告了一种荧光测定法,用于检测 G 蛋白偶联受体(GPCR)-β-arrestin 相互作用,该方法是遗传编码的,可推广到多种 GPCR,并具有高信噪比,因为荧光在 GPCR 激活时其成分相互作用之前是不存在的。蛋白酶激活受体-1 激活后几分钟内出现荧光,需要受体羧基末端的特定丝氨酸-苏氨酸残基,与经典的 G 蛋白偶联受体激酶依赖的β-arrestin 募集机制一致。该测定法为其他体内 GPCR 激活检测提供了有用的补充。