title: Atrial natriuretic peptide clearance receptor. Complete sequence and functional expression of cDNA clones.
abstract: The major class of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) receptors was isolated from cultured vascular smooth muscle cells, and a partial amino acid sequence was obtained. This allowed the isolation of cDNA clones from which the entire amino acid sequence was established. The smooth muscle cell ANP receptor appears to be synthesized as a 537-amino acid precursor with an N-terminal membrane translocation signal. The mature form consists of 496 amino acids with a single potential transmembrane domain predicting a 37-amino acid cytoplasmic domain and a large, acidic, extracellular domain low in cysteine and probably containing attached carbohydrate. The receptor is therefore similar in structure to the growth factor receptors but notably lacks repetitive cysteine-rich domains and has a relatively small intracellular domain. Expression of the cloned receptor in Xenopus oocytes elicited high affinity, membrane-associated binding sites for ANP and for truncated and internally deleted analogs of ANP. These results reflect the ligand binding specificity found for the major class of ANP receptors on smooth muscle cells and thus provide additional evidence that two distinct ANP receptors exist since ANP receptor-coupled guanylate cyclase activity exhibits a very different ANP analog specificity.
authors.affiliation: California Biotechnology, Inc., Mountain View 94043.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Arfsten
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Schilling
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Scarborough
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lewicki
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Schenk
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D017461:Receptors, Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D004247:DNA; D017461:Receptors, Atrial Natriuretic Factor