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- Title
The Role of Reversible Phosphorylation of Drosophila Rhodopsin.
- Authors
Smylla, Thomas K.; Wagner, Krystina; Huber, Armin
- Abstract
Vertebrate and fly rhodopsins are prototypical GPCRs that have served for a long time as model systems for understanding GPCR signaling. Although all rhodopsins seem to become phosphorylated at their C-terminal region following activation by light, the role of this phosphorylation is not uniform. Two major functions of rhodopsin phosphorylation have been described: (1) inactivation of the activated rhodopsin either directly or by facilitating binding of arrestins in order to shut down the visual signaling cascade and thus eventually enabling a high-temporal resolution of the visual system. (2) Facilitating endocytosis of activated receptors via arrestin binding that in turn recruits clathrin to the membrane for clathrin-mediated endocytosis. In vertebrate rhodopsins the shutdown of the signaling cascade may be the main function of rhodopsin phosphorylation, as phosphorylation alone already quenches transducin activation and, in addition, strongly enhances arrestin binding. In the Drosophila visual system rhodopsin phosphorylation is not needed for receptor inactivation. Its role here may rather lie in the recruitment of arrestin 1 and subsequent endocytosis of the activated receptor. In this review, we summarize investigations of fly rhodopsin phosphorylation spanning four decades and contextualize them with regard to the most recent insights from vertebrate phosphorylation barcode theory.
- Subjects
RHODOPSIN; DROSOPHILA; PHOSPHORYLATION; ARRESTINS; CLATHRIN; ENDOCYTOSIS
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 23, p14674
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms232314674