Unraveling allostery within the angiotensin II type 1 receptor for Gαqand β-arrestin coupling

Autor: Cao, Yubo, van der Velden, Wijnand J. C., Namkung, Yoon, Nivedha, Anita K., Cho, Aaron, Sedki, Dana, Holleran, Brian, Lee, Nicholas, Leduc, Richard, Muk, Sanychen, Le, Keith, Bhattacharya, Supriyo, Vaidehi, Nagarajan, Laporte, Stéphane A.
Zdroj: Science Signaling; August 2023, Vol. 16 Issue: 797
Abstrakt: G protein–coupled receptors engage both G proteins and β-arrestins, and their coupling can be biased by ligands and mutations. Here, to resolve structural elements and mechanisms underlying effector coupling to the angiotensin II (AngII) type 1 receptor (AT1R), we combined alanine scanning mutagenesis of the entire sequence of the receptor with pharmacological profiling of Gαqand β-arrestin engagement to mutant receptors and molecular dynamics simulations. We showed that Gαqcoupling to AT1R involved a large number of residues spread across the receptor, whereas fewer structural regions of the receptor contributed to β-arrestin coupling regulation. Residue stretches in transmembrane domain 4 conferred β-arrestin bias and represented an important structural element in AT1R for functional selectivity. Furthermore, we identified allosteric small-molecule binding sites that were enclosed by communities of residues that produced biased signaling when mutated. Last, we showed that allosteric communication within AT1R emanating from the Gαqcoupling site spread beyond the orthosteric AngII-binding site and across different regions of the receptor, including currently unresolved structural regions. Our findings reveal structural elements and mechanisms within AT1R that bias Gαqand β-arrestin coupling and that could be harnessed to design biased receptors for research purposes and to develop allosteric modulators.
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