TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gmach, Philipp
A1  - Bathe-Peters, Marc
A1  - Telugu, Narasimha
A1  - Miller, Duncan C.
A1  - Annibale, Paolo
T1  - Fluorescence spectroscopy of low-level endogenous β-adrenergic receptor expression at the plasma membrane of differentiating human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes
JF  - International Journal of Molecular Sciences
N2  - The potential of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to be differentiated into cardiomyocytes (CMs) mimicking adult CMs functional morphology, marker genes and signaling characteristics has been investigated since over a decade. The evolution of the membrane localization of CM-specific G protein-coupled receptors throughout differentiation has received, however, only limited attention to date. We employ here advanced fluorescent spectroscopy, namely linescan Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), to observe how the plasma membrane abundance of the β\(_1\)- and β\(_2\)-adrenergic receptors (β\(_{1/2}\)-ARs), labelled using a bright and photostable fluorescent antagonist, evolves during the long-term monolayer culture of hiPSC-derived CMs. We compare it to the kinetics of observed mRNA levels in wildtype (WT) hiPSCs and in two CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in clones. We conduct these observations against the backdrop of our recent report of cell-to-cell expression variability, as well as of the subcellular localization heterogeneity of β-ARs in adult CMs.
KW  - GPCR
KW  - β-adrenergic receptors
KW  - hiPSC-CM
KW  - cardiomyocyte
KW  - fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
KW  - FCS
KW  - fluorescence
KW  - CRISPR/Cas9
KW  - differentiation
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-288277
SN  - 1422-0067
VL  - 23
IS  - 18
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paisdzior, Sarah
A1  - Dimitriou, Ioanna Maria
A1  - Schöpe, Paul Curtis
A1  - Annibale, Paolo
A1  - Scheerer, Patrick
A1  - Krude, Heiko
A1  - Lohse, Martin J.
A1  - Biebermann, Heike
A1  - Kühnen, Peter
T1  - Differential signaling profiles of MC4R mutations with three different ligands
JF  - International Journal of Molecular Sciences
N2  - The melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) is a key player in hypothalamic weight regulation and energy expenditure as part of the leptin–melanocortin pathway. Mutations in this G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) are the most common cause for monogenetic obesity, which appears to be mediated by changes in the anorectic action of MC4R via G\(_S\)-dependent cyclic adenosine-monophosphate (cAMP) signaling as well as other signaling pathways. To study potential bias in the effects of MC4R mutations between the different signaling pathways, we investigated three major MC4R mutations: a G\(_S\) loss-of-function (S127L) and a G\(_S\) gain-of-function mutant (H158R), as well as the most common European single nucleotide polymorphism (V103I). We tested signaling of all four major G protein families plus extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation and β-arrestin2 recruitment, using the two endogenous agonists, α- and β-melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), along with a synthetic peptide agonist (NDP-α-MSH). The S127L mutation led to a full loss-of-function in all investigated pathways, whereas V103I and H158R were clearly biased towards the G\(_{q/11}\) pathway when challenged with the endogenous ligands. These results show that MC4R mutations can cause vastly different changes in the various MC4R signaling pathways and highlight the importance of a comprehensive characterization of receptor mutations.
KW  - Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R)
KW  - Melanocyte stimulating hormones MSH
KW  - G protein coupled receptor (GPCR)
KW  - biased signaling
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-285108
SN  - 1422-0067
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
ER  -