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- Title
Multi-functionality of proteins involved in GPCR and G protein signaling: making sense of structure–function continuum with intrinsic disorder-based proteoforms.
- Authors
Fonin, Alexander V.; Darling, April L.; Kuznetsova, Irina M.; Turoverov, Konstantin K.; Uversky, Vladimir N.
- Abstract
GPCR–G protein signaling system recognizes a multitude of extracellular ligands and triggers a variety of intracellular signaling cascades in response. In humans, this system includes more than 800 various GPCRs and a large set of heterotrimeric G proteins. Complexity of this system goes far beyond a multitude of pair-wise ligand–GPCR and GPCR–G protein interactions. In fact, one GPCR can recognize more than one extracellular signal and interact with more than one G protein. Furthermore, one ligand can activate more than one GPCR, and multiple GPCRs can couple to the same G protein. This defines an intricate multifunctionality of this important signaling system. Here, we show that the multifunctionality of GPCR–G protein system represents an illustrative example of the protein structure–function continuum, where structures of the involved proteins represent a complex mosaic of differently folded regions (foldons, non-foldons, unfoldons, semi-foldons, and inducible foldons). The functionality of resulting highly dynamic conformational ensembles is fine-tuned by various post-translational modifications and alternative splicing, and such ensembles can undergo dramatic changes at interaction with their specific partners. In other words, GPCRs and G proteins exist as sets of conformational/basic, inducible/modified, and functioning proteoforms characterized by a broad spectrum of structural features and possessing various functional potentials.
- Subjects
POST-translational modification; PROTEINS; G proteins; PROTEIN structure; PROTEIN-protein interactions; G protein coupled receptors
- Publication
Cellular & Molecular Life Sciences, 2019, Vol 76, Issue 22, p4461
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00018-019-03276-1