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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016

Aggregation Limits Surface Expression of Homomeric GluA3 Receptors.

Sarah K Coleman, Ying Hou, Marina Willibald, Artur Semenov, Tommi Möykkynen, Kari Keinänen

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarah K ColemanFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Ying HouFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Marina WillibaldFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Artur SemenovFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Tommi MöykkynenFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Kari KeinänenFrom the Department of Biosciences, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland kari.keinanen@helsinki.fi.
University of Helsinki · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AMPA receptors are glutamate-gated cation channels assembled from GluA1-4 subunits and have properties that are strongly dependent on the subunit composition. The subunits have different propensities to form homomeric or various heteromeric receptors expressed on cell surface, but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here, we examined the biochemical basis for the poor ability of GluA3 subunits to form homomeric receptors, linked previously to two amino acid residues, Tyr-454 and Arg-461, in its ligand binding domain (LBD). Surface expression of GluA3 was improved by co-assembly with GluA2 but not with stargazin, a trafficking chaperone and modulator of AMPA receptors. The secretion efficiency of GluA2 and GluA3 LBDs paralleled the transport difference between the respective full-length receptors and was similarly dependent on Tyr-454/Arg-461 but not on LBD stability. In comparison to GluA2, GluA3 homomeric receptors showed a strong and Tyr-454/Arg-461-dependent tendency to aggregate both in the macroscopic scale measured as lower solubility in nonionic detergent and in the microscopic scale evident as the preponderance of hydrodynamically large structures in density gradient centrifugation and native gel electrophoresis. We conclude that the impaired surface expression of homomeric GluA3 receptors is caused by nonproductive assembly and aggregation to which LBD residues Tyr-454 and Arg-461 strongly contribute. This aggregation inhibits the entry of newly synthesized GluA3 receptors to the secretory pathway.

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Gene Expression RegulationProtein AggregatesHEK293 CellsHumansProtein Structure, TertiaryReceptors, AMPAglutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 3Protein AggregatesReceptors, AMPAionotropic glutamate receptorprotein aggregationprotein assemblyprotein foldingprotein traffickingsurface expressionα-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPA receptor, AMPAR)

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PMID26912664
PMCPMC4861446
OpenAlexW2284398211

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