Ghrelin Through GHSR1a and OX1R Heterodimers Reveals a Gαs–cAMP-cAMP Response Element Binding Protein Signaling Pathway in Vitro

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Qingjie Xue¹  Xiaoyu Chen²  Jing Chen³  Yanyou Pan⁴  Chunmei Wang⁴  Rumin Zhang⁴  Yunlu Jiang⁴  Baohua Cheng⁴  Chunqing Yang⁴  Bo Bai⁴  Bingyuan Ji⁴  Peixiang Wang⁴ 

[1] Department of Pathogenic Biology, Jining Medical University, Jining, China;Department of Physiology, Taishan Medical University, Taian, China;Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom;Neurobiology Institute, Jining Medical University, Jining, China;

关键词: growth hormone secretagogue receptor 1α (GHSR1a);    orexin type 1 receptor (OX1R);    heterodimerization;    allosteric signaling;    neuroblastoma cell proliferation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnmol.2018.00245

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Growth hormone secretagogue receptor 1α (GHSR1a) and Orexin 1 receptor (OX1R) are involved in various important physiological processes, and have many similar characteristics in function and distribution in peripheral tissues and the central nervous system. We explored the possibility of heterodimerization between GHSR1a and OX1R and revealed a signal transduction pathway mechanism. In this study, bioluminescence and fluorescence resonance energy transfer and co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) analyses were performed to demonstrate the formation of functional GHSR1a/OX1R heterodimers. This showed that a peptide corresponding to the 5-transmembrane domain of OX1R impaired heterodimer construction. We found that ghrelin stimulated GHSR1a/OX1R heterodimer cells to increase the activation of Gαs protein, compared to the cells that express GHSR1a. Stimulation of GHSR1a/OX1R heterodimers with orexin-A did not alter GPCR interactions with Gα protein subunits. GHSR1a/OX1R heterodimers induced Gαs and downstream signaling pathway activity, including increase of cAMP-response element luciferase reporter activity and cAMP levels. In addition, ghrelin induced a higher proliferation rate in SH-SY5Y cells than in controls. This suggests that ghrelin GHSR1a/OX1R heterodimers promotes an upregulation of a Gαs-cAMP-cAMP-responsive element signaling pathway in vitro and an increase in neuroblastoma cell proliferation.

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