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Int J Mol Sci ; 21(22)2020 Nov 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33182845

ABSTRACT

Activation of the P2X7 receptor results in the opening of a large pore that plays a role in immune responses, apoptosis, and many other physiological and pathological processes. Here, we investigated the role of conserved and unique residues in the extracellular vestibule connecting the agonist-binding domain with the transmembrane domain of rat P2X7 receptor. We found that all residues that are conserved among the P2X receptor subtypes respond to alanine mutagenesis with an inhibition (Y51, Q52, and G323) or a significant decrease (K49, G326, K327, and F328) of 2',3'-O-(benzoyl-4-benzoyl)-ATP (BzATP)-induced current and permeability to ethidium bromide, while the nonconserved residue (F322), which is also present in P2X4 receptor, responds with a 10-fold higher sensitivity to BzATP, much slower deactivation kinetics, and a higher propensity to form the large dye-permeable pore. We examined the membrane expression of conserved mutants and found that Y51, Q52, G323, and F328 play a role in the trafficking of the receptor to the plasma membrane, while K49 controls receptor responsiveness to agonists. Finally, we studied the importance of the physicochemical properties of these residues and observed that the K49R, F322Y, F322W, and F322L mutants significantly reversed the receptor function, indicating that positively charged and large hydrophobic residues are important at positions 49 and 322, respectively. These results show that clusters of conserved residues above the transmembrane domain 1 (K49-Y51-Q52) and transmembrane domain 2 (G326-K327-F328) are important for receptor structure, membrane expression, and channel gating and that the nonconserved residue (F322) at the top of the extracellular vestibule is involved in hydrophobic inter-subunit interaction which stabilizes the closed state of the P2X7 receptor channel.


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Receptors, Purinergic P2X7/genetics , Receptors, Purinergic P2X7/metabolism , Amino Acid Sequence , Amino Acid Substitution , Animals , Bacterial Proteins/chemistry , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Conserved Sequence , HEK293 Cells , Humans , Ion Channel Gating , Kinetics , Luminescent Proteins/chemistry , Luminescent Proteins/genetics , Luminescent Proteins/metabolism , Models, Molecular , Mutagenesis, Site-Directed , Mutant Proteins/chemistry , Mutant Proteins/genetics , Mutant Proteins/metabolism , Protein Domains , Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs , Rats , Receptors, Purinergic P2X7/chemistry , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism , Static Electricity
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