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The Receptor for Parathyroid Hormone and Parathyroid Hormone-Related Peptide Is Hydrolyzed and Its Signaling Properties Are Altered by Directly Binding the Calpain Small Subunit

Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (M.S., M.J.M., G.V.S.), Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute (P.A.G.), Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Gino V. Segre, Endocrine Unit, Wellman 501, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114. E-mail: segre{at}helix.mgh.harvard.edu.

We show calcium-dependent, direct binding between the N-terminal portion of the PTH/PTHrP receptor (PTH1R) C-terminal intracellular tail and the calpain small subunit. Binding requires, but may not be limited to, amino acids W474, S475, and W477. The wild-type, full-length rat (r) PTH1R, but not rPTH1R with W474A/W477A substitutions, copurifies with the endogenous calpain small subunit in HEK293 cells. Calpain hydrolyzes Nt-rPTH1R, a receptor with a 156-amino acid N-terminal deletion, in a calcium-dependent manner in vitro and in intact cells. Most importantly, PTH stimulation increases the cleavage of Nt-rPTH1R and rPTH1R-yellow fluorescent protein in HEK293 cells, and of talin in HEK293 cells expressing rPTH1R-yellow fluorescent protein and in ROS17/2.8 osteoblast-like cells that express rPTH1R endogenously. The absence of calpain in Capn4-null embryonic fibroblasts and the lowered calpain activity in MC3T3-E1 osteoblastic cells due to stable expression of the calpain inhibitor, calpastatin, reduce PTH-stimulated cAMP accumulation. The calpain small subunit is the second protein, in addition to the sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor, and the first enzyme that binds the PTH1R; PTH1R bound to both of these proteins results in altered PTH signaling.

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