Identification and functional characterisation of N-linked glycosylation of the orphan G protein-coupled receptor Gpr176
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important drug targets with diverse therapeutic applications. However, there are still more than a hundred orphan GPCRs, whose protein functions and biochemical features remain unidentified. Gpr176 encodes a class-A orphan GPCR that has a role in circadian clo...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Scientific reports 2020-03, Vol.10 (1), p.4429-4429, Article 4429 |
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Zusammenfassung: | G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important drug targets with diverse therapeutic applications. However, there are still more than a hundred orphan GPCRs, whose protein functions and biochemical features remain unidentified.
Gpr176
encodes a class-A orphan GPCR that has a role in circadian clock regulation in mouse hypothalamus and is also implicated in human breast cancer transcriptional response. Here we show that Gpr176 is
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-glycosylated. Peptide-
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-glycosidase treatment of mouse hypothalamus extracts revealed that endogenous Gpr176 undergoes
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-glycosylation. Using a heterologous expression system, we show that
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-glycosylation occurs at four conserved asparagine residues in the N-terminal region of Gpr176. Deficient
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-glycosylation due to mutation of these residues reduced the protein expression of Gpr176. At the molecular function level, Gpr176 has constitutive, agonist-independent activity that leads to reduced cAMP synthesis. Although deficient
N
-glycosylation did not compromise this intrinsic activity, the resultant reduction in protein expression was accompanied by attenuation of cAMP-repressive activity in the cells. We also demonstrate that human GPR176 is
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-glycosylated. Importantly, missense variations in the conserved
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-glycosylation sites of human GPR176 (rs1473415441; rs761894953) affected
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-glycosylation and thereby attenuated protein expression and cAMP-repressive activity in the cells. We show that
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-glycosylation is a prerequisite for the efficient protein expression of functional Gpr176/GPR176. |
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ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-61370-y |