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Differences in structure-function relations between nonmammalian and mammalian gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors.

Mammalian gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors (GnRH-Rs) differ from other G protein-coupled receptors in lacking the intracellular C-terminus and in showing an exchange of two otherwise highly conserved Asp (D) and Asn (N) residues in transmembrane domains (TMD) 2 and 7, respectively. However, the first GnRH-R characterized from a nonmammalian vertebrate, the African catfish, does contain an intracellular C-terminus and has D residues in TMD 2 and 7. The functional relevance of these structural features was analysed with D90N321, N90D321, N90N321 and C-terminally truncated mutant catfish GnRH-Rs. An antiserum raised against the recombinant extracellular domain of the wild-type catfish GnRH-R detected all mutant receptors at the cell surface of transiently transfected 293T cells. However, only the D90N321 mutant specifically bound GnRHs and activated signal transduction in response to GnRHs; all other mutants were inactive in both respects. We conclude that the catfish GnRH-R differs from the mammalian GnRH-Rs in that both the C-terminal domain and D90 in TMD 2 are important for receptor functioning.