title: Four amino acid residues are critical for high affinity binding of neuromedin B to the neuromedin B receptor.
abstract: Three mammalian bombesin receptor subtypes have been characterized: the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRP-R), the neuromedin B receptor (NMB-R), and bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3). In a previous report we identified four amino acids that are critical for high affinity binding of bombesin and gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) to the GRP-R. These four amino acids are conserved in all species variants of the GRP-R and NMB-R which bind bombesin with high affinity, but they are diverged in BRS-3, the bombesin receptor subtype that binds bombesin with much lower affinity. Substituting these four divergent amino acids in BRS-3 for the conserved amino acids in either GRP-R or NMB-R increased the affinity of the mutated BRS-3 (4DeltaBRS-3) for bombesin compared with wild-type BRS-3. We hypothesized that the same four amino acids might be critical for high affinity NMB binding to the NMB-R. In this study we confirm this hypothesis by showing that the affinity of NMB is increased in a mutant BRS-3 receptor (4DeltaBRS-3) that contains these four substitutions resulting in an affinity that is close to the affinity of wild-type NMB-R for NMB. In contrast, these four amino acid substitutions in BRS-3 did not result in the formation of a high affinity binding site for the recently described non-peptide NMB-R antagonist PD168368.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDCD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sainz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akeson
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Mantey
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Battey
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D015287:Neurokinin B / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D051381:Rats; D018004:Receptors, Bombesin / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D018004:Receptors, Bombesin; C107120:bombesin receptor subtype 3; D015287:Neurokinin B; C038393:neuromedin B