β-Arrestin-mediated activation of MAPK by inverse agonists reveals distinct active conformations for G protein-coupled receptors
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- 17 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 100 (20), 11406-11411
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1936664100
Abstract
It is becoming increasingly clear that signaling via G protein-coupled receptors is a diverse phenomenon involving receptor interaction with a variety of signaling partners. Despite this diversity, receptor ligands are commonly classified only according to their ability to modify G protein-dependent signaling. Here we show that β2AR ligands like ICI118551 and propranolol, which are inverse agonists for Gs-stimulated adenylyl cyclase, induce partial agonist responses for the mitogen-activated protein kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 thus behaving as dual efficacy ligands. ERK1/2 activation by dual efficacy ligands was not affected by ADP-ribosylation of Gαi and could be observed in S49-cyc– cells lacking Gαs indicating that, unlike the conventional agonist isoproterenol, these drugs induce ERK1/2 activation in a Gs/i-independent manner. In contrast, this activation was inhibited by a dominant negative mutant of β-arrestin and was abolished in mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking β-arrestin 1 and 2. The role of β-arrestin was further confirmed by showing that transfection of β-arrestin 2 in these knockout cells restored ICI118551 promoted ERK1/2 activation. ICI118551 and propranolol also promoted β-arrestin recruitment to the receptor. Taken together, these observations suggest that β-arrestin recruitment is not an exclusive property of agonists, and that ligands classically classified as inverse agonists rely exclusively on β-arrestin for their positive signaling activity. This phenomenon is not unique to β2-adrenergic ligands because SR121463B, an inverse agonist on the V2 vasopressin receptor-stimulated adenylyl cyclase, recruited β-arrestin and stimulated ERK1/2. These results point to a multistate model of receptor activation in which ligand-specific conformations are capable of differentially activating distinct signaling partners.Keywords
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