title: Genetic analysis of beta-adrenergic receptor internalization and down-regulation.
abstract: We have used wild-type and variants of the T-lymphoma cell line S49 to explore internalization and down-regulation of adenylate cyclase-linked beta-adrenergic receptors. Internalization was defined by the loss in "surface receptors" detected at 4 degrees C on intact cells by the antagonists [3H]CGP-12177 or [125I]iodocyanopindolol, whereas down-regulation was defined as the loss in total cellular content of receptors [( 125I]iodocyanopindolol binding assayed at 37 degrees C). In wild-type cells, the beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol induced a rapid (t 1/2, approximately equal to 1 min) and reversible loss in surface receptors. The surface sites were lost at a rate similar to the rate of desensitization of beta-adrenergic receptor-mediated cyclic AMP generation of S49 cells. A series of S49 variants (cyc-, UNC, H21a) having lesions in NS (the guanine nucleotide binding protein that couples beta-receptors to adenylate cyclase) or with absent cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity (kin-), had a loss in surface sites that was equivalent to that of wild-type cells. By contrast, S49 variant cells having lesions in NS showed variable rates and extents of down-regulation of beta-adrenergic receptors. In wild-type and kin- S49 cells, beta-receptors down-regulated with a t 1/2 of approximately equal to 4 hr. Down-regulation was blunted in the cyc- and UNC variants that have altered coupling of receptors to NS, but it was faster in the H21a variant that retains receptor-NS interaction. Recovery of receptors after down-regulation occurred at a similar rate (t 1/2, approximately equal to 6 hr) in wild-type, UNC, and H21a cells. These results demonstrate that internalization of beta-adrenergic receptors may be necessary, but is not sufficient, to explain agonist-induced receptor down-regulation in S49 cells. The variable expression in the development of down-regulation in S49 variants implies that receptor-NS interaction regulates the fate of receptors linked to the stimulation of adenylate cyclase.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Mahan
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Koachman
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Insel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000502:physiology*; D004705:Endocytosis; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008223:Lymphoma; D051379:Mice; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D007545:Isoproterenol