title: Further characterization of a high affinity thyrotropin binding site on the rat thyrotropin receptor which is an epitope for blocking antibodies from idiopathic myxedema patients but not thyroid stimulating antibodies from Graves' patients.
abstract: Cysteine 390 of the rat thyrotropin (TSH) receptor, when mutated to serine, results in a receptor with a reduced ability of TSH to bind and increase cAMP levels but a preserved ability of thyroid stimulating autoantibodies (TSAbs) from hyperthyroid Graves' patients to increase cAMP levels. The ability of receptor autoantibodies from hypothyroid patients with idiopathic myxedema to inhibit the TSAb activity which is preserved is, however, like TSH binding, significantly reduced. Cysteine 390, together with tyrosine 385, thus appears to be an important determinant in a high affinity TSH binding site which is an epitope for receptor autoantibodies which block TSH or TSAb action and cause hypothyroidism rather than TSAbs which increase cAMP levels and are associated with hyperthyroidism. Threonine 388 and aspartic acid 403 may contribute to this ligand interaction site.
authors.affiliation: Cell Regulation Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kosugi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ban
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akamizu
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Kohn
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D001665:Binding Sites; D001666:Binding Sites, Antibody; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002460:Cell Line; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000494:pharmacology; D000939:Epitopes / Q000032:analysis*; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009230:Myxedema / Q000276:immunology*; D011989:Receptors, Thyrotropin / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000378:metabolism*; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D000939:Epitopes; D011989:Receptors, Thyrotropin; D013972:Thyrotropin; D000242:Cyclic AMP