title: Models of G-protein coupled receptors revised for family-wide compliance with experimental data. A new sequence accommodation suggested for helix G.
abstract: The G-protein coupled receptors form a vast superfamily. The hydrophobic sequences of the transmembrane regions can be consistently and unambiguously aligned for nearly all, even distantly related, members owing to striking conserved patterns. As the fold is highly conserved in evolution, a model of the structure of the transmembrane helix bundle built for any individual receptor will thus be of family-wide relevance. Consequently the model must comply with key results experimentally obtained for other individual receptors. Meeting this demand can greatly reduce the uncertainties in modelling G-protein coupled receptors. This present communication shows how our recent template model based on the backbone structure of bacteriorhodopsin is revised according to that demand. Although it turns out to be in accordance with the experimental data in most of its parts, this revision suggests a sequence accommodation to helix G that is different from all other published models.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Röper
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Krüger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grötzinger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wollmer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Strassburger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins / Q000378:metabolism; D001665:Binding Sites; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000378:metabolism; D004220:Disulfides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D002395:Catecholamines; D004220:Disulfides; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins