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Inverse agonists to explore the mechanisms of metabotropic glutamate receptor activity

机译:反向激动剂探讨代谢谷氨酸受体活性的机制

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The most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter of the brain, glutamate, activates two sets of receptors: the ionotropic glutamate receptors responsible for the fast synaptic transmission and the metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) which regulate synaptic transmission. Thus, mGluRs are involved in fundamental physiological processes such as learning and memory, cardiac and movement control or pain. However, they also contribute to some neurological diseases. These receptors are then considered as good therapeutic targets. They share less than 10% sequence identity with the rhodopsin-related or the glucagon receptor-related receptors. Moreover, in addition to a heptahelical domain (HD) responsible for the coupling to G proteins, they possess a large extracellular domain containing the ligand binding site. Until recently, the functioning of these receptors was poorly understood. We have shown that several mGluRs displayed a constitutive activity, which was controlled by their C-terminal tail, and could be involved in long-term regulation of neuronal processes. Moreover, we showed that only noncompetitive allosteric compounds acting directly in the heptahelical domain were able to block this constitutive activity. These compounds allowed a better understanding of the mGluR activation process. Together with the recent determination of the crystal dimeric structure of the extracellular glutamate binding domain (BD) of mGluRl, our results led to a theoretical model for the functioning of this receptor.
机译:大脑中最丰富的兴奋性神经递质,谷氨酸激活两组受体:负责快速突触传递的离子型谷氨酸受体和调节突触传递的代谢谷氨酸受体(MGLURA)。因此,MGLURS参与基本的生理过程,如学习和记忆,心脏和运动控制或疼痛。然而,它们也有助于一些神经疾病。然后将这些受体视为良好的治疗靶标。它们与罗多蛋白酶相关或胰高血糖素受体相关的受体共享少于10%的序列同一性。此外,除了负责与G蛋白偶联的胚胎结构结构域(HD)之外,它们具有含有配体结合位点的大细胞外结构域。直到最近,这些受体的运作很差。我们已经表明,几种MGLURS显示了由其C末端尾部控制的组成型活性,并且可以参与神经元过程的长期调节。此外,我们表明,只有直接在渗透结构结构域中作用的非竞争性颠振复合物能够阻断这种组成型活性。这些化合物允许更好地了解MGLUR激活过程。与最近测定Mglull的细胞外谷氨酸结合结构域(BD)的晶体二聚体结构,我们的结果导致了该受体的功能的理论模型。

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