Abstract
The generation of cAMP by G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) and its termination are currently thought to occur exclusively at the plasma membrane of cells. Under existing models of receptor regulation, this signal is primarily restricted by desensitization of the receptors through their binding to β-arrestins. However, this paradigm is not consistent with recent observations that the parathyroid hormone receptor type 1 (PTHR) continues to stimulate cAMP production even after receptor internalization, as β-arrestins are known to rapidly bind and internalize activated PTHR. Here we show that binding to β-arrestin1 prolongs rather than terminates the generation of cAMP by PTHR, and that cAMP generation correlates with the persistence of arrestin–receptor complexes on endosomes. PTHR signaling is instead turned off by the retromer complex, which regulates the movement of internalized receptor from endosomes to the Golgi apparatus. Thus, binding by the retromer complex regulates the sustained generation of cAMP triggered by an internalized GPCR.
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This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health award R01DK087688 (to J.-P.V.). We thank J. Bonifacino for plasmids encoding retromer subunits Vps26 and Vps29YFP and L. Traub for plasmids encoding β-arrestin1tom and β-arrestin1[I386A, V387A]tom.
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T.N.F. performed most of the experiments with the support of V.L.W., J.A.A., D.S.W., S.F. and T.J.G.; J.-P.V. designed and supervised the experiments; J.-P.V. and T.N.F. analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; all authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
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A three-dimensional reconstruction of a representative endosome labeled with Vps29YFP (blue), GFPPTHR (green) and β-arr1tom (red). (MOV 13562 kb)
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Feinstein, T., Wehbi, V., Ardura, J. et al. Retromer terminates the generation of cAMP by internalized PTH receptors. Nat Chem Biol 7, 278–284 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.545
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