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Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands
Includes bibliographical references.
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2014
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| author | Hendrikse, Megan |
| author2 | Katz, Arieh |
| author_browse | Hendrikse, Megan Katz, Arieh |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8708 Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands Hendrikse, Megan Katz, Arieh Millar, Robert Includes bibliographical references. G protein-coupled receptors play a key role in cellular signaling by transducing extracellular signals via G proteins to elicit intracellular responses. Studies have provided evidence supporting the role of the GPCR GPR54 and its cognate peptide ligand, kisspeptin (an RFamide peptide), in the regulation of reproduction. Kisspeptin and GPR54 play a critical role in the control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis by regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion. Despite the physiological importance of GPR54/kisspeptin signalling, the GRP54 residues important for receptor activation and signalling have not been extensively investigated. Another hypothalamic peptide, gonadotropin inhibiting hormone (also known as RFamide-related peptide), which interacts with the GPCR GPR147, has been found to inhibit GnRH-induced gonadotropin release and is therefore also of importance in control of the HPG axis. As many of the RFamide and RFamide-related receptors and ligands can be promiscuous, there is the potential for crosstalk between the GPR54/kisspeptin and GRP147/RFRP systems (or other RFamides) which may be of importance in the regulation of reproduction. GPR54 chimeras and point mutants were constructed in order to investigate the residues important for kisspeptin binding and receptor activation. The data obtained indicate that the acidic residues within the extracellular loops of GPR54 contribute to cell surface receptor expression and play a role in receptor signalling. In order to investigate the interactions of kisspeptin/RFRP peptides at GPR147 and GPR54, binding and activation of these receptors was studied with a range of ligands and their analogs. In addition to RFRP and its analogs, kisspeptin and several kisspeptin analogs were found to act as agonists at GRP147. In contrast, of all the ligands tested, only kisspeptin was able to bind to GPR54 with high affinity and elicit a response, thus indicating that GPR54 has high specificity for kisspeptin in contrast to the more promiscuous GPR147. These data demonstrate the therapeutic potential of kisspeptin analogs, for the inhibition of gonadotropin secretion and treatment of sex steroid hormone disease. In addition, these data have identified ligand and receptor residues important for binding and activation of GRP54/GRP147 which may aid development of new analogs targeting these receptors and highlighted the importance of testing these analogs for receptor specificity. 2014-10-21T13:48:09Z 2014-10-21T13:48:09Z 2014 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8708 eng application/pdf Division of Medical Biochemistry Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Hendrikse, Megan Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| title_full | Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| title_fullStr | Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| title_short | Interactions of GPR54 and GPR147 receptors with RF-amide ligands |
| title_sort | interactions of gpr54 and gpr147 receptors with rf amide ligands |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8708 |
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