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Cellular lipids regulate the conformational ensembles of the disordered intracellular loop 3 in β2-adrenergic receptor
oleh: Elizaveta Mukhaleva, Tianyi Yang, Fredrik Sadler, Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, Ning Ma, Nagarajan Vaidehi
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Diterbitkan: | Elsevier 2024-06-01 |
Deskripsi
Summary: The intracellular loops of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been shown to play a key role in G protein coupling and selectivity. We recently showed that the intrinsically disordered third intracellular loop (ICL3) of β2-adrenergic receptor is dynamic and equilibrates between open and closed conformations to regulate the G protein coupling. In this study, using the extensive molecular dynamics simulations in multi-lipid bilayer models, we show that the lipid phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) stabilizes the active state of β2-adrenergic receptor by keeping ICL3 in an open conformation. This stabilization results in a tilt of the receptor within the membrane. Additionally, the ganglioside lipid, GM3 interacts with extracellular loops, impacting the ligand binding site allosterically. This demonstrates the active role of the chemistry of lipids in stabilizing specific GPCR conformations.