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Trimeric architecture of homomeric P2X2 and heteromeric P2X1+2 receptor subtypes
Authors:Aschrafi Armaz  Sadtler Sven  Niculescu Cristina  Rettinger Jürgen  Schmalzing Günther
Institution:Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Technical University of Aachen, Wendlingweg 2, D-52074, Germany.
Abstract:Of the three major classes of ligand-gated ion channels, nicotinic receptors and ionotropic glutamate receptors are known to be organized as pentamers and tetramers, respectively. The architecture of the third class, P2X receptors, is under debate, although evidence for a trimeric assembly is accumulating. Here we provide biochemical evidence that in addition to the rapidly desensitising P2X1 and P2X3 receptors, the slowly desensitising subtypes P2X2, P2X4, and P2X5 are trimers of identical subunits. Similar (heteromeric) P2X subunits also formed trimers, as shown for co-expressed P2X1 and P2X2 subunits, which assembled efficiently to a P2X1+2 receptor that was exported to the plasma membrane. In contrast, P2X6 subunits, which are incapable of forming functional homomeric channels in Xenopus oocytes, were retained in the ER as apparent tetramers and high molecular mass aggregates. Altogether, we conclude from these data that a trimeric architecture is the structural hallmark of functional homomeric and heteromeric P2X receptors.
Keywords:assembly  ligand-gated ion channels  protein-protein interactions  quaternary structure  Xenopus oocytes
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