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Role of β-arrestin in μ-opioid and TRPV1 receptor signalling
Nagy Marková, Vendula ; Novotný, Jiří (advisor) ; Blahoš, Jaroslav (referee) ; Roubalová, Lenka (referee)
β-Arrestin belongs to the protein family which has a huge impact not only on GPCR signaling, but its role exceeds the function of the membrane channel, its own signaling cascade, or as a scaffold protein, etc. Here we aimed to study β-arrestin roles on the MOR behaviour in the plasma membrane or -opioid receptor (MOR) signaling and effect on adenylyl cyclase (AC) function using the siRNA to decrease the expression of β-arrestin isoforms. Furthermore, we focused on investigating the role of β-arrestin on the crosstalk between MOR and TRPV1 channels, which are important parts of pain transduction. For this purpose, we used HEK293 cells that stably expressed MOR-YFP or transiently transfected with TRPV1-CFP. We observed that both β-arrestin isoforms have an effect on the lateral mobility of MOR in the plasma membrane and the silencing of one or another β-arrestin isoforms abolishes the effect of MOR agonists to affect its diffusion in the plasma membrane. Interestingly, silencing of β-arrestin1 diminish the internalization of MOR induced by the endogenous agonist endomorphin-2. On the other hand, silencing of β-arrestin2 did not abolish the endomorphin-2 induced MOR internalization. Moreover, both isoforms exhibit a distinct impact on the inhibition of AC induced by the agonists of MOR....
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