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ArticleScience signaling2011

Activation state of the M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor modulates mammalian odorant receptor signaling.

Yun Rose Li, Hiroaki Matsunami

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Article in Science signaling, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yun Rose LiDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Hiroaki Matsunami
Duke Medical Center · USDuke University · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Odorant RecognitionR01DC005782 · NIDCD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MATSUNAMI, HIROAKI · 2002 to 2012
$3.5M
Integrative Analysis of Genomic Risk Factors in Juvenile Idiopathic ArthritisF30AR066486 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LI, YUN ROSE · 2014 to 2015
$93k
NIAMS NIH HHS F30 AR066486NIDCD NIH HHS DC005782NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005782
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A diverse repertoire of heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs) enables cells to sense their environment. Mammalian olfaction requires the activation of odorant receptors (ORs), the largest family of GPCRs; however, whether ORs functionally interact with other families of GPCRs is unclear. We show that the interaction of ORs with the type 3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M3-R), which is found in olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), modulated OR responses to cognate odorants. In human embryonic kidney-293T cells, ORs and the M3-R physically interacted, and the M3-R increased the potency and efficacy of odorant-elicited responses of several ORs. Selective M3-R antagonists attenuated odorant-dependent activation of OSNs, and, when the M3-R and ORs were expressed in transfected cells, OR activation was enhanced by muscarinic agonists and inhibited by muscarinic antagonists. Furthermore, M3-R-dependent potentiation of OR signaling synergized with that of receptor transporting protein 1S (RTP1S), an accessory factor required for the efficient membrane targeting of ORs. However, the M3-R did not enhance the abundance of ORs at the cell surface, suggesting that the M3-R acted through a distinct mechanism independent of RTP1S. Finally, the activation of ORs by cognate odorants transactivated the M3-R in the absence of its agonist. The crosstalk between ORs and the M3-R suggests that the functional coupling of ORs and the M3-R is required for robust OR activation.

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Signal TransductionAtropineBenzofuransCarbacholCholinergic AgonistsColforsinCyclic AMPHEK293 CellsHumansImmunohistochemistryIonomycinIonophoresMembrane Transport ProteinsMuscarinic AntagonistsOlfactory Receptor NeuronsProtein BindingAtropineBenzofuransCarbacholCholinergic AgonistsColforsinCyclic AMPdarifenacinIonomycinIonophoresMembrane Transport ProteinsMuscarinic AntagonistsPyrrolidinesReceptor, Muscarinic M3Receptors, G-Protein-CoupledReceptors, OdorantRTP1 protein, human

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PMID21224444
PMCPMC3034603
OpenAlexW2118518281

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