Differential coupling of D1 and D5 dopamine receptors to guanine nucleotide binding proteins in transfected GH4C1 rat somatomammotrophic cells

Kazuhiro Kimura, Shifra Sela, Claudia Bouvier, David K. Grandy, Anita Sidhu

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Abstract

D1 and D5 dopamine receptor genes, stably expressed in GH4C1 rat somatomammotrophic cells, display identical binding values and stimulate adenylate cyclase. Approximately 60% of D1 receptors were in the agonist high-affinity state and were converted to the low-affinity state by 100 μM guanyl-5'-ylimidodiphosphate [Gpp(NH)p]. Of the 48% of D5 receptors in the high-affinity state, only half were modulated by 100 μM Gpp(NH)p; in the presence of the G protein activator, AIF4 , the high-affinity sites of D5 receptors were abolished by Gpp(NH)p, suggesting tight coupling between D5 receptors and G proteins. The high-affinity sites of D1, but not D5, receptors were reduced after pertussis toxin treatment of cells. Thus, whereas D1 receptors in GH4C1 cells couple to both G(s) the G stimulatory protein, and a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein, D5 receptors couple to G5 and a pertussis toxin-insensitive G protein. Neither D1 nor D5 receptors were able to stimulate phosphoinositide metabolism in these cells. The ability of D5, but not D1, receptors to couple to novel G proteins may be significant in assigning a functional role for these receptors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2118-2124
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Neurochemistry
Volume64
Issue number5
StatePublished - May 1995
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeR01NS029685

    Keywords

    • Cell transfection
    • Dopamine receptor
    • G protein
    • High-affinity binding sites
    • Pertussis toxin

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