title: Cloning of a human heptahelical receptor closely related to the P2Y5 receptor.
abstract: The 6H1 receptor cloned from activated chicken T cells was initially considered an orphan G-coupled receptor, but was later included in the P2Y family of receptors for purine and pyrimidine nucleotides on the basis of a significant amino acid identity and was renamed P2Y5. Analysis of the expressed sequence tag database revealed the presence of a related sequence exhibiting 63% amino acid identity with this receptor. Starting from this partial sequence, we have isolated a complete clone and identified a 1113 base pair open reading frame encoding a new G-coupled receptor that we have called P2Y5-like. This sequence exhibits 61% identity with the chicken P2Y5 sequence and 30-33% with other P2Y subtypes. A construct encoding this P2Y5-like receptor was transfected into COS-7, 1321N1, and CHO-K1 cells, and expression was documented by Northern blotting. None of the 40 nucleotides and nucleosides tested was able to elicit a response in any of four functional assays: inositol phosphate formation, stimulation or inhibition of cAMP formation, and extracellular acidification measured with a microphysiometer. These results suggest either that the natural ligand of the P2Y5-like receptor is an uncommon nucleotide or alternatively that despite its structural similarity to the P2Y family it is not a nucleotide receptor.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, School of Medicine, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Janssens
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Boeynaems
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Godart
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Communi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D019556:COS Cells; D002645:Chickens; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017510:Protein Folding; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics*; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000235:genetics; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2 / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015398:Signal Transduction; D049368:Receptors, Lysophosphatidic Acid
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2; C082320:LPAR4 protein, human; D049368:Receptors, Lysophosphatidic Acid