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Probing the pharmacological properties of distinct subunit interfaces within heteromeric glycine receptors reveals a functional ββ agonist-binding site

Malgorzata Drwal
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Bodo Laube
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Heinrich Betz
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Synaptic glycine receptors (GlyRs) are hetero-pentameric chloride channels composed of α and β subunits, which are activated by agonist binding at subunit interfaces. To examine the pharmacological properties of each potential agonist-binding site, we substituted residues of the GlyR α(1) subunit by the corresponding residues of the β subunit, as deduced from sequence alignment and homology modeling based on the recently published crystal structure of the glutamate-gated chloride channel GluCl. These exchange substitutions allowed us to reproduce the βα, αβ and ββ subunit interfaces present in synaptic heteromeric GlyRs by generating recombinant homomeric receptors. When the engineered α(1) GlyR mutants were expressed in Xenopus oocytes, all subunit interface combinations were found to form functional agonist-binding sites as revealed by voltage clamp recording. The ββ-binding site displayed the most distinct pharmacological profile towards a range of agonists and modulators tested, indicating that it might be selectively targeted to modulate the activity of synaptic GlyRs. The mutational approach described here should be generally applicable to heteromeric ligand-gated ion channels composed of homologous subunits and facilitate screening efforts aimed at targeting inter-subunit specific binding sites.

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hal-02306924 , version 1 (08-10-2019)

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Sébastien Dutertre, Malgorzata Drwal, Bodo Laube, Heinrich Betz. Probing the pharmacological properties of distinct subunit interfaces within heteromeric glycine receptors reveals a functional ββ agonist-binding site. Journal of Neurochemistry, 2012, 122 (1), pp.38-47. ⟨10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07755.x⟩. ⟨hal-02306924⟩
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