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Vol. 304, Issue 3, 1120-1128, March 2003
Diabetes/Endocrine and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups,
Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (B.A.-A., M.D.H.) and
Medicine (M.D.H.), University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
In intact cells, trypsin activates proteinase-activated receptor-2
(PAR2) by hydrolysis at residues
R36/S37 (amino acids are abbreviated by their
one-letter code), revealing an active tethered ligand sequence. We
sought to determine whether in intact cells, the tryptic
cleavage/activation of PAR2 might also be accompanied by
hydrolysis at other potential N-terminal cleavage sites, like residues
K34, R41, K51, and K72,
as implied by the tryptic cleavage in vitro at these residues of
Escherichia coli-expressed human N-terminal
PAR2R31-P79. To this end,
four PAR2 mutants with altered tryptic cleavage sites were
prepared (PAR2R36A,
PAR2S37P, PAR2R41A, and
PAR2R36AR41A), expressed in Kirsten
virus-transformed rat kidney cells and were evaluated together
with the wild-type PAR2-expressing cells for 1) activation
(Ca2+ signaling) by trypsin and the receptor-activating
peptide SLIGRL-NH2 (SL-NH2) and 2) the tryptic
release of two antigenic receptor determinants, one N-terminal to the
R36/S37 cleavage/activation site detected by
SLAW-A antibody and the second (detected by antibody, B5), N-terminal
to residues K51, K72. None of the mutants
resistant to cleavage at R36 were activated by trypsin, yet
all retained reactivity to B5 and all were activated by
SL-NH2. In contrast, trypsin activated both wild-type and
PAR2R41A, leading to a disappearance of SLAW-A
but not B5 reactivity. We conclude that, as opposed to the
E. coli-expressed PAR2
N-terminal polypeptide, PAR2 expressed in intact cells
displays selective tryptic cleavage at the
R36/S37 activation site, without cleaving
downstream. Thus, in intact cells, trypsin activation does not
concurrently "disarm" rat PAR2, but leaves the
"tethered ligand" persistently attached to the body of the receptor.
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