Journal article
The differential binding affinities of the luteinizing hormone (LH)/choriogonadotropin receptor for LH and choriogonadotropin are dictated by different extracellular domain residues
Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.), Vol.19(5), pp.1263-1276
05/2005
DOI: 10.1210/me.2004-0410
PMID: 15677709
Abstract
The high degree of amino acid sequence homology and the divergent ligand binding affinities of the rat (r) and human (h) LH receptors (LHRs) allowed us to identify amino acid residues of their extracellular domain that are responsible for the different binding affinities of bovine (b) and hLH, and human choriogonadotropin (hCG) to the hLHR and rLHR. Because of the proposed importance of the beta-sheets of the leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) of the extracellular domain of the LHR on hormone binding, we examined 10 divergent residues present in these regions by analyzing two complementary sets of mutants in which hLHR residues were substituted with the corresponding rLHR residues and vice versa. These experiments resulted in the identification of a single residue (a Ile or Ser in the C-terminal end of LRR2 of the hLHR or rLHR, respectively) that is important for hLH binding affinity. Surprisingly, however, this residue does not affect hCG or for bLH binding affinity. In fact, the results obtained with bLH and hCG show that several of the divergent residues in the beta-sheets of LRR1-9 affect bLH binding affinity, but none of them affect hCG binding affinity. Importantly, our results also emphasize the involvement of residues outside of the beta-sheets of the LRRs of the LHR in ligand binding affinity. This finding has to be considered in future models of the interaction of LH/CG with the LHR.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The differential binding affinities of the luteinizing hormone (LH)/choriogonadotropin receptor for LH and choriogonadotropin are dictated by different extracellular domain residues
- Creators
- Colette Galet - University of IowaMario Ascoli - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.), Vol.19(5), pp.1263-1276
- DOI
- 10.1210/me.2004-0410
- PMID
- 15677709
- NLM abbreviation
- Mol Endocrinol
- ISSN
- 0888-8809
- eISSN
- 1944-9917
- Grant note
- CA 40629 / NCI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2005
- Academic Unit
- Injury Prevention Research Center; Neuroscience and Pharmacology; University of Iowa Health Care
- Record Identifier
- 9985138032102771
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