Thyrotropin-ganglioside interactions and their relationship to the structure and function of thyrotropin receptors.
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 73 (3), 842-846
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.73.3.842
Abstract
Gangliosides inhibit 125I-labeled thyrotropin binding to the thyrotropin receptors on bovine thyroid plasma membranes, on guinea pig retro-orbital tissue plasma membranes, and on human adipocyte membranes. This inhibition by gangliosides is critically altered by the number and location of the sialic acid residues within the ganglioside structure, the efficacy of inhibition having the following order: GD1b greater than GT1 greater than GM1 greater than GM2 = GM3 greater than GD1a. The inhibition results from the interaction of thyrotropin and gangliosides, rather than the interaction of membrane and gangliosides. Fluorescence studies show that the inhibition is associated with a distinct conformational change of the thyrotropin molecule and that the progression from a "noninhibitory conformation" to an "inhibitory conformation" parallels exactly the order of effectiveness in inhibiting 125I-labeled thyrotropin binding. The ganglioside inhibition of 125I-labeled thyrotropin binding appears to be hormonally specific in that it is not affected by albumin, glucagon, insulin, prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone, growth hormone, or corticotropin. The possibility that a ganglioside or ganglioside-like structure is a component of the thyrotropin receptor is suggested by the finding that gangliosides more complex than N-acetylneuraminylgalactosylglucosylceramide are present in bovine thyroid membranes in much higher quantities than have been previously found in extraneural tissue. The finding that the B component of cholera toxin, which also interacts with gangliosides, has a peptide sequence in common with the beta subunit of thyrotropin, suggests that thyrotropin and cholera toxin may be analogous in their mode of action on the membrane.Keywords
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