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Summary The question, Is Hb G Philadelphia linked to -thalassaemia? was first posed because the abnormal haemoglobin is found in heterozygotes at a concentration greater than 25%, the proportion predicted from a 4 -chain gene model. Globin chain biosynthesis was studied in a West Indian family in which one parent had + thalassaemia and the other was heterozygous for the G Philadelphia chain gene. The former had a globin chain production ratio / well above 1, while the latter had a ratio significantly less than 1. One child of the marriage had inherited the + thallassaemia from one parent and the G Philadelphia chain gene from the other and showed the typical picture of /-thalassaemia (/ ratio slightly above normal). It is explained in the discussion that the evidence favours a close linkage of 2 -chain genes. 相似文献
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Milowska K Malachowska M Gabryelak T 《International journal of biological macromolecules》2011,48(5):742-746
α-Synuclein (ASN) aggregation plays a key role in neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's disease, and inhibition of fibril formation is a potential therapeutic strategy for these conditions. The aim of the present study was to investigate polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers (generations 4 and 3.5) as inhibitors of fibril formation in vitro by examining their interaction with ASN intrinsic tyrosine fluorescence. Furthermore, the effect of dendrimers on ASN aggregation was studied using circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and CD studies were complemented by a fluorescence assays using the dye thioflavin T (ThT). The PAMAM G4 dendrimer caused an increase in tyrosine residue fluorescence, and inhibited fibrillation of ASN; inhibited fibrillation was not observed with PAMAM G3.5 dendrimers. 相似文献
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Katagiri F Ishikawa M Yamada Y Hozumi K Kikkawa Y Nomizu M 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2012,521(1-2):32-42
Laminins, a multifunctional protein family of extracellular matrix, interact with various types of integrin. Here, integrin-mediated cell adhesive peptides have been systematically screened in the laminin α4 and α5 chain G domain peptide library consisting of 211 peptides by both the peptide-coated plastic plates and peptide-conjugated Sepharose bead assays using human dermal fibroblasts. Thirteen peptides promoted cell spreading and the activity was specifically inhibited by EDTA. Cell attachment to 11 peptides was inhibited by anti-integrin β1 antibody. Additionally, cell attachment to the A5G81 (AGQWHRVSVRWG) and A5G84 (TWSQKALHHRVP) peptides was specifically inhibited by anti-integrin α3 and α6 antibodies. These results suggest that the A5G81 and A5G84 peptides promote integrin α3β1- and α6β1-mediated cell attachment. Further, most of the integrin-mediated cell adhesive peptides are located in the loop regions in the G domains, suggesting that structure is important for the integrin specific recognition. Integrin binding peptides are useful for understanding laminin functions and have a potential to use for biomaterials and drug development. 相似文献
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Kumar P Wu Q Chambliss KL Yuhanna IS Mumby SM Mineo C Tall GG Shaul PW 《Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.)》2007,21(6):1370-1380
Estrogen induces G protein-dependent nongenomic signaling in a variety of cell types via the activation of a plasma membrane-associated subpopulation of estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha). Using pull-down experiments with purified recombinant proteins, we now demonstrate that ER alpha binds directly to G alpha i and G betagamma. Mutagenesis and the addition of blocking peptide reveals that this occurs via amino acids 251-260 and 271-595 of ER alpha, respectively. Studies of ER alpha complexed with heterotrimeric G proteins further show that estradiol causes the release of both G alpha i and G betagamma without stimulating GTP binding to G alpha i. Moreover, in COS-7 cells, the disruption of ER alpha-G alpha i interaction by deletion mutagenesis of ER alpha or expression of blocking peptide, as well as G betagamma sequestration with beta-adrenergic receptor kinase C terminus, prevents nongenomic responses to estradiol including src and erk activation. In endothelial cells, the disruption of ER alpha-G alpha i interaction prevents estradiol-induced nitric oxide synthase activation and the resulting attenuation of monocyte adhesion that contributes to estrogen-related cardiovascular protection. Thus, through direct interactions, ER alpha mediates a novel mechanism of G protein activation that provides greater diversity of function of both the steroid hormone receptor and G proteins. 相似文献
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Heterotrimeric G proteins are conformational switches that turn on intracellular signaling cascades in response to the activation of G-protein-coupled receptors. Receptor activation by extracellular stimuli promotes a cycle of GTP binding and hydrolysis on the G protein α-subunit (Gα). Important conformational transitions occurring during this cycle have been characterized from extensive crystallographic studies of Gα. However, the link between the observed conformations and the mechanisms involved in G-protein activation and effector interaction remain unclear. Here we describe a comprehensive principal component analysis of available Gα crystallographic structures supplemented with extensive unbiased conventional and accelerated molecular dynamics simulations that together characterize the response of Gα to GTP binding and hydrolysis. Our studies reveal details of activating conformational changes as well as the intrinsic flexibility of the α-helical domain that includes a large-scale 60° domain opening under nucleotide-free conditions. This result is consistent with the recently reported open crystal structure of Gs, the stimulatory G protein for adenylyl cyclase, in complex with the α2 adrenergic receptor. Sets of unique interactions potentially important for the conformational transition are also identified. Moreover simulations reveal nucleotide-dependent dynamical couplings of distal regions and residues potentially important for the allosteric link between functional sites.Heterotrimeric G proteins undergo cycles of GTP-dependent conformational rearrangements and alterations of their oligomeric αβγ form to convey receptor signals to downstream effectors that control diverse cellular processes ranging from movement to division and differentiation. Interaction with activated receptor promotes the exchange of GDP for GTP on the G protein α subunit (Gα) and its separation from its βγ subunit partners (Gβγ). Both isolated Gα and Gβγ then interact with downstream effectors. GTP hydrolysis deactivates Gα, which reassociates with Gβγ, becoming ready to restart the cycle. Each of these stages has been subjected to extensive crystallographic studies with high-resolution structures of Gα in complex with GDP, GTP analog, Gβγ, and, most recently, the G-protein-coupled receptors now available. These studies have provided extensive mechanistic insight. However, a number of important questions remain, including:
- How do the distinct conformations evident in the accumulated structures interconvert?
- How do disease-associated mutations affect the fidelity of these transitions?
- And, critically, how do distal functional sites responsible for nucleotide and protein partner binding allosterically coordinate their activities?
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《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2020,30(16):127301
The dramatic increase in bacterial resistance over the past three decades has greatly reduced the effectiveness of nearly all clinical antibiotics, bringing infectious disease to the forefront as a dire threat to global health. To combat these infections, adjuvant therapies have emerged as a way to reactivate known antibiotics against resistant pathogens. Herein, we report the evaluation of simplified α-pyrone adjuvants capable of potentiating penicillin G against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative pathogen whose multidrug-resistant strains have been labeled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a serious threat to public health. 相似文献
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Chimeric G proteins, obtained by exchanging their C-terminal portion for that of a G protein from an unrelated class, drive the receptor selectivity to that corresponding to the introduced G protein domain. The 2A-adrenoceptor (2AAR), which yielded an efficacious and weak [35S]GTPS binding response by respectively G o and G i3 protein, was investigated in CHO-K1 cells co-expressing chimeric G proteins for which the six last C-terminal amino acids between G o and G i3 proteins, and reciprocally, were permuted. Activation of the chimeric G o / i3 protein was highly efficient whereas the G i3 / o protein yielded a weak stimulation. These [35S]GTPS binding responses were not different from their parental wild-type G o and G i3 proteins. Similar results were obtained with an 2AAR carrying a facilitating Thr373Lys mutation in a putative G protein interaction domain. These data indicate that the six terminal G o protein amino acids do not constitute a major 2AAR interaction domain for G protein activation. 相似文献
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Kentaro Hozumi 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2010,503(2):213-222
Cell adhesive peptides have been widely applied for therapeutic drugs, drug delivery systems, and biomaterials. Previously, we identified various cell adhesive sequences in the G domains of four laminin α chains (α2-α5) by the systematic soluble peptide screening. We also identified five cell-binding sequences in the laminin α1 chain G domain using synthetic peptide-polystyrene beads. Here, we re-screened cell adhesive peptides in the laminin α1 chain G domain by the systematic soluble peptides screening. The 110 soluble peptides were evaluated for their cell adhesive activities using human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells and human dermal fibroblasts. Fourteen peptides were newly identified as a cell adhesive. Additionally, four peptides (AG22: SSFHFDGSGYAM, AG42: TFDLLRNSYGVRK, AG76: HQNQMDYATLQLQ, AG86: LGGLPSHYRARNI) promoted integrin-mediated cell adhesion. Further, neurite outgrowth activity with rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells was evaluated and two peptides (AG20: SIGLWNYIEREGK, AG26: SPNGLLFYLASNG) were newly identified for neurite outgrowth activity. These results suggested that the systematic soluble peptides screening approach is an accurate and powerful strategy for finding biologically active sequences. The active sequences newly identified here could be involved in the biological functions of this domain. The active peptides are useful for evaluating molecular mechanisms of laminin-receptor interactions and for developing cell adhesive biomaterials. 相似文献
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John F. Foley Satya P. Singh Michelle Cantu Lingye Chen Hongwei H. Zhang Joshua M. Farber 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2010,285(46):35537-35550
Because T cell differentiation leads to an expanded repertoire of chemokine receptors, a subgroup of G protein-coupled receptors, we hypothesized that the repertoire of G proteins might be altered in parallel. We analyzed the abundance of mRNA and/or protein of six G protein α-subunits in human CD4+ and CD8+ T cell subsets from blood. Although most G protein α-subunits were similarly expressed in all subsets, the abundance of Gαo, a protein not previously described in hematopoietic cells, was much higher in memory versus naive cells. Consistent with these data, activation of naive CD4+ T cells in vitro significantly increased the abundance of Gαo in cells stimulated under nonpolarizing or TH17 (but not TH1 or TH2)-polarizing conditions. In functional studies, the use of a chimeric G protein α-subunit, Gαqo5, demonstrated that chemokine receptors could couple to Gαo-containing G proteins. We also found that Gαi1, another α-subunit not described previously in leukocytes, was expressed in naive T cells but virtually absent from memory subsets. Corresponding to their patterns of expression, siRNA-mediated knockdown of Gαo in memory (but not naive) and Gαi1 in naive (but not memory) CD4+ T cells inhibited chemokine-dependent migration. Moreover, although even in Gαo- and Gαi1-expressing cells mRNAs of these α-subunits were much less abundant than Gαi2 or Gαi3, knockdown of any of these subunits impaired chemokine receptor-mediated migration similarly. Together, our data reveal a change in the repertoire of Gαi/o subunits during T cell differentiation and suggest functional equivalence among Gαi/o subunits irrespective of their relative abundance. 相似文献
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Under physiological conditions, circulating platelets are discoid in shape.1 On these platelets, the fibrinogen receptor (integrin αIIbβ3) is in a low-affinity state, unable to bind soluble fibrinogen (Fg). Activation by agonists such as ADP and thrombin leads to a change in the conformation of the integrin αIIbβ3 through a process known as inside-out signaling. This enables the integrin to bind soluble Fg, which initiates a cascade of events referred to as outside-in signaling.2 Outside-in signaling control processes, such as platelet spreading and clot retraction, by regulating small G-proteins such as RhoA, Rac and cdc42.Key words: platelets, integrin αIIbβ3, Galpha13, RhoA, clot retraction, thrombin, fibrinogenThe majority of the physiological platelet agonists (except collagen) induce inside-out signaling by binding to specific G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). A G-protein plays a crucial role in translating the signal from GPCR to downstream effector molecules, ultimately leading to affinity modulation of integrin αIIbβ3. Platelets express nine Gα subunits; namely Gq, Gi1, Gi2, Gi3, Gz, G12, G13, Gs and G16. Previous studies have shown that a small G-protein, RhoA, is activated by the G12/13 family and plays a crucial role in calcium-independent platelet shape change.3 However, RhoA is also activated by αIIbβ3 and inhibits platelet spreading to trigger clot retraction.4 Recently, in a series of elegant experiments, Gong et al. have described the dynamic regulation of RhoA through a signaling crosstalk between Gα13 and αIIbβ3.5By generating mice in which the platelets were depleted of Gα13 using siRNA technology, Gong et al. investigated the role of Gα13-mediated signaling on platelet spreading on immobilized Fg.5 The confocal images very clearly showed that, in the absence of Gα13, platelets spread poorly on Fg, which was rescued by pretreatment with the Rho-kinase inhibitor Y27632, confirming previous findings that RhoA activated downstream of integrin αIIbβ3 inhibits platelet spreading. Interestingly, Gα13-depleted platelets failed to activate c-Src but accelerated RhoA activation. From these observations, the authors infer that Gα13 is important for integrin-mediated c-Src activation and RhoA inhibition, leading to increased cell spreading.5Since Gα13 regulates integrin-mediated cell spreading and c-Src activation, Gong et al. examined the interaction of Gα13 with αIIbβ3 using co-immunoprecipitation and GST pull-down assays.5 They found that the GTP-bound form of Gα13 shows enhanced interaction with the integrin β3 subunit. This interaction is required for the activation of c-Src and the inhibition of RhoA. However, they found that the inhibition of RhoA is transient. RhoA activation is suppressed for the first 15 min of platelet spreading, after which RhoA is activated. This initial suppression is rescued by blocking Gα13 and β3 cytoplasmic domain (β3-CD) interaction. Furthermore, they observed that RhoA activation parallels clot retraction.5 These findings indicate that Gα13 is a key regulator of platelet spreading and clot retraction phenomena.According to Gong et al., thrombin-induced inside-out signaling through GPCR leads to GTP loading of Gα13 (Fig. 1A). This GTP-bound Gα13 interacts with integrin β3-CD of ligand-bound integrin, thus facilitating c-Src activation, which leads to platelet spreading. Blockade of the interaction between Gα13 and β3-CD or cleavage of β3-CD by calpain results in clot retraction (Fig. 1B).Open in a separate windowFigure 1Schematic representation of the dynamic regulation of RhoA by Gα13 during platelet activation. (A) Activation of platelets by thrombin receptors coupled to Gα13 leads to the activation of RhoA, leading to platelet shape change. (B) The change in the conformation of integrin to a high-affinity form results in fibrinogen binding to αIIbβ3. Active Gα13 binds to the cytoplasmic domain of β3 leading to the activation of c-Src, resulting in platelet spreading. The rise in intracellular calcium activates calpain, which cleaves the β3 cytoplasmic domain, releasing c-Src, which, resulting in the activation of RhoA, leads to cell retraction. *Denotes GTP-bound active form of G-proteins.Perhaps the most significant and novel finding of the study is the identification of integrin αIIbβ3 as an effector of Gα13. The study also convincingly shows that Gα13 bound to integrin regulates RhoA via c-Src. Furthermore, achieving 80% knockdown of Gα13 in an in vivo setting using siRNA represents a technological advancement. Since Gα13 binds to integrin β3-CD in a 1:1 stoichiometry, it appears that only a small population of integrin is regulated by Gα13, as there are far less Gα13 molecules in a single platelet than the number of αIIbβ3 molecules. This will require further investigation. Gong et al. also finds that an appreciable amount of Gα13 is associated with β3 in resting platelets, which requires some explanation.5 It is also not clear if Gα13 remains bound to β3-CD or dissociates from the integrin during clot retraction.Overall, this is a paradigm-shifting study that establishes the importance of the dynamic regulation of RhoA by Gα13 in order to achieve efficient platelet spreading and clot retraction. 相似文献
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Justin R. King Jacob C. Nordman Samuel P. Bridges Ming-Kuan Lin Nadine Kabbani 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2015,290(33):20060-20070
α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) play an important role in synaptic transmission and inflammation. In response to ligands, this receptor channel opens to conduct cations into the cell but desensitizes rapidly. In recent studies we show that α7 nAChRs bind signaling proteins such as heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins). Here, we demonstrate that direct coupling of α7 nAChRs to G proteins enables a downstream calcium signaling response that can persist beyond the expected time course of channel activation. This process depends on a G protein-binding cluster (GPBC) in the M3-M4 loop of the receptor. A mutation of the GPBC in the α7 nAChR (α7345–348A) abolishes interaction with Gαq as well as Gβγ while having no effect on receptor synthesis, cell-surface trafficking, or α-bungarotoxin binding. Expression of α7345–348A, however, did significantly attenuate the α7 nAChR-induced Gαq calcium signaling response as evidenced by a decrease in PLC-β activation and IP3R-mediated calcium store release in the presence of the α7 selective agonist choline. Taken together, the data provides new evidence for the existence of a GPBC in nAChRs serving to promote intracellular signaling. 相似文献
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Guanine-nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) act as molecular switches in signaling pathways, by coupling the activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) at the cell surface to intracellular responses. In the resting state, G protein forms a heterotrimer, consisting of GDP-bound form of the G protein α subunit (Gα(GDP)) and G protein βγ subunit (Gβγ). Ligand binding to GPCRs promotes the GDP-GTP exchange on Gα, leading to the dissociation of the GTP-bound form of Gα (Gα(GTP)) and Gβγ. Then, Gα(GTP) and Gβγ bind to their downstream effector enzymes or ion channels and regulate their activities, leading to a variety of cellular responses. Finally, Gα hydrolyzes the bound GTP to GDP and returns to the resting state by re-associating with Gβγ. G proteins are classified with four major families based on the amino acid sequences of Gα: i/o, s, q/11, and 12/13. Each family transduces the signaling from different GPCRs to the specific effectors. Here, we established the backbone resonance assignments of human Gαi3, a member of the i/o family, with a molecular weight of 41 K in complex with a GTP analogue, GTPγS. 相似文献
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Yoko Mase Mariko Yokogawa Masanori Osawa Ichio Shimada 《Biomolecular NMR assignments》2014,8(2):237-241
Guanine-nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) serve as molecular switches in signaling pathways, by coupling the activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) at the cell surface to intracellular responses. In the resting state, G protein forms a heterotrimer, consisting of the G protein α subunit with GDP (Gα·GDP) and the G protein βγ subunit (Gβγ). Ligand binding to GPCRs promotes the GDP–GTP exchange on Gα, leading to the dissociation of the GTP-bound form of Gα (Gα·GTP) and Gβγ. Then, Gα·GTP and Gβγ bind to their downstream effector enzymes or ion channels and regulate their activities, leading to a variety of cellular responses. Finally, Gα hydrolyzes the bound GTP to GDP and returns to the resting state by re-associating with Gβγ. The G proteins are classified with four major families based on the amino acid sequences of Gα: i/o, s, q/11, and 12/13. Here, we established the backbone resonance assignments of human Gαi3, a member of the i/o family with a molecular weight of 41 K, in complex with GDP. The chemical shifts were compared with those of Gαi3 in complex with a GTP-analogue, GTPγS, which we recently reported, indicating that the residues with significant chemical shift differences are mostly consistent with the regions with the structural differences between the GDP- and GTPγS-bound states, as indicated in the crystal structures. The assignments of Gαi3·GDP would be useful for the analyses of the dynamics of Gαi3 and its interactions with various target molecules. 相似文献
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Bentama A El Hadrami EM El Hallaoui A Elachqar A Lavergne JP Roumestant ML Viallefont P 《Amino acids》2003,24(4):423-426
alpha-Heterocyclic alpha-aminoesters were obtained in good yields by reaction of a glycine cation equivalent and different heterocyclic nucleophiles; diastereoselectivity using a carbohydrate (galactopyranose) as N-protecting group was modest. 相似文献
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α-Tropomyosin (αTm) is central to Ca2+-regulation of cardiac muscle contraction. The familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation αTm E180G enhances Ca2+-sensitivity in functional assays. To investigate the molecular basis, we imaged single molecules of human cardiac αTm E180G by direct probe atomic force microscopy. Analyses of tangent angles along molecular contours yielded persistence length corresponding to ∼35% increase in flexibility compared to wild-type. Increased flexibility of the mutant was confirmed by fitting end-to-end length distributions to the worm-like chain model. This marked increase in flexibility can significantly impact systolic and possibly diastolic phases of cardiac contraction, ultimately leading to hypertrophy. 相似文献
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Michael R. Dores Huilan Lin Neil J. Grimsey Francisco Mendez JoAnn Trejo 《Molecular biology of the cell》2015,26(25):4660-4673
The sorting of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) to lysosomes is critical for proper signaling and cellular responses. We previously showed that the adaptor protein ALIX regulates lysosomal degradation of protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR1), a GPCR for thrombin, independent of ubiquitin-binding ESCRTs and receptor ubiquitination. However, the mechanisms that regulate ALIX function during PAR1 lysosomal sorting are not known. Here we show that the mammalian α-arrestin arrestin domain–containing protein-3 (ARRDC3) regulates ALIX function in GPCR sorting via ubiquitination. ARRDC3 colocalizes with ALIX and is required for PAR1 sorting at late endosomes and degradation. Depletion of ARRDC3 by small interfering RNA disrupts ALIX interaction with activated PAR1 and the CHMP4B ESCRT-III subunit, suggesting that ARRDC3 regulates ALIX activity. We found that ARRDC3 is required for ALIX ubiquitination induced by activation of PAR1. A screen of nine mammalian NEDD4-family E3 ubiquitin ligases revealed a critical role for WWP2. WWP2 interacts with ARRDC3 and not ALIX. Depletion of WWP2 inhibited ALIX ubiquitination and blocked ALIX interaction with activated PAR1 and CHMP4B. These findings demonstrate a new role for the α-arrestin ARRDC3 and the E3 ubiquitin ligase WWP2 in regulation of ALIX ubiquitination and lysosomal sorting of GPCRs. 相似文献
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The true function of Merkel cells (MCs) is still enigmatic, though the localization of various kinds of neurotransmitter-like substances in MCs has been revealed by immunohistochemistry. Most of the neurotransmitters act on target cells via seven-transmembrane receptors coupled to heterotrimeric G proteins. The heterotrimeric G proteins include various subfamilies that contribute to different signal transduction pathways. Therefore investigation of specific types of G proteins in MCs and related axon terminals (MC-axon terminals) should contribute to the elucidation of the function of MCs. In this study, we investigated the expression patterns of alpha-subunit isoforms of G proteins in MC-neurite complexes of the rat and monkey by enzymatic and fluorescence immunohistochemistry. MC-axon terminals of the rat and monkey showed positive immunoreactions of Galphao and Galphai1. Those of the monkey also showed a weak immunoreaction of Galphas. On the other hand, MCs of both animals showed positive immunoreactions of Galphao, Galphai1, Galphaq, and Galphaz. In addition, MCs of the monkey showed weak immunoreactions of Galphas. Galphao- and Galphai1-like immunoreactions in the MC-axon terminals suggest that MCs suppressively regulate receptive functions of type I mechanosensory nerve terminals. On the other hand, the localization of Galpha-subunits in MCs suggests that these cells are regulated with hormones, neurotransmitter-like substances, or growth factors. 相似文献