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Submitted on January 27, 2004
Accepted on March 22, 2004

Regulation of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptors by Protein Kinase C: Inside Out Signalling and Evidence for Multiple Active Conformations

Christopher J Caunt, James N Hislop, Eamonn Kelly, Anne-Lise Matharu, Lisa D Green, Kathleen R Sedgley, Ann R Finch, and Craig A McArdle*

Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol (CJC, LDG, KRS, ARF and CAM), Department of Pharmacology, University of Bristol (EK and A-L M) and University of California, San Fransisco (JNH).

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: craig.mcardle{at}bris.ac.uk.

Desensitization and internalization of GPCRs can be mediated by phosphorylation within the C-terminal tail, facilitating {beta}-arrestin binding and targeting the receptor for internalization. Type II gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors (GnRH-Rs) show such regulation but type I GnRH-Rs lack C-tails and are not rapidly desensitized or internalized. Here we show contrasting susceptibility of type I (human and sheep) and II (Xenopus) GnRH-Rs to regulation by PKC. When human (h) or Xenopus (X) GnRH-Rs were expressed using recombinant adenovirus, PKC activation increased radioligand binding to XGnRH-Rs but not to hGnRH-Rs. A dominant-negative dynamin mutant (K44A) inhibited internalization of XGnRH-Rs (but not hGnRH-Rs) without influencing PKC regulation of XGnRH-R binding. PKC activation increased the affinity of XGnRH-Rs for the type II GnRH ligand and increased effects of low concentrations of GnRH-II on the [Ca2+]i but had no effect on type I ligand binding to hGnRH-Rs, sGnRH-Rs or XGnRH-Rs or to chimeric receptors with the XGnRH-R C-tail added to a type I receptor. Binding of type II ligand to human or sheep receptors was also unaffected, but was increased in the chimeras. Mutation of both PKC-phosphorylation consensus sites in the XGnRH-R tail did not prevent the PKC-mediated increases in binding or alter agonist-induced translocation of {beta}-arrestin2/GFP or inhibition of inositol-phosphate accumulation by {beta}-arrestin2/GFP. Thus it appears that there are two distinct active conformations of XGnRH-Rs (differing in affinity for type I and II ligands) and that these cells exhibit a novel form of "inside-out signaling" in which PKC feeds back to influence receptor affinity.


Key words: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone • protein kinase C • receptor




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