Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
G protein-coupled receptor 30 is an estrogen receptor in the plasma membrane☆,☆☆
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Materials and methods
Materials. Anti-FLAG mouse monoclonal antibody was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Co. (St. Louis, MO, USA). Lipofectamine 2000 was from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA, USA). p3xFLAG-CMV10 was from Sigma-Aldrich Co. (St. Louis, MO, USA). All other chemicals were available commercially.
Plasmid construction. The full-length GPR30 fragment was confirmed by DNA sequencing and cloned into p3xFLAG-CMV10 or pCMV-GFP as described previously [16].
Production of polyclonal antibody. Rabbit polyclonal antibodies
Production of anti-GPR30 antibody and observation of the intracellular localization of GPR30
To examine the localization of GPR30 in vivo, we produced anti-GPR30 antibodies using four kinds of synthetic peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences in GPR30. In immunoblotting experiments on HeLa cells transfected with FLAG-GPR30, among the antibodies produced, that produced by the synthetic peptide for amino acid residues 352–370 clearly recognized a protein with a molecular mass of approximately 40 kDa, which is almost equal to the calculated molecular mass of GPR30, and the band
Discussion
We conclude that plasma membrane GPR30 is activated by E2 for the following reasons. First, GPR30 exists in the plasma membrane of HeLa cells transfected with FLAG-GPR30 and translocates from the plasma membrane to the cytoplasm in response to stimulation by physiological concentrations (10 nM–1 μM) of E2. Second, an elevation in [Ca2+]i was observed within several seconds after the addition of E2 in cells expressing GPR30. No elevation in [Ca2+]i was observed in HeLa cells transfected with empty
Acknowledgment
We thank Mr. C. Matsuo (Yamaguchi University School of Medicine) for technical support with immunohistochemistry.
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Abbreviations: GPR30, G protein-coupled receptor 30; GPCR, G protein-coupled receptor; E2, estrogen or 17β-estradiol; [Ca2+]i, intracellular Ca2+ concentrations; PBS, phosphate-buffered saline.
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This work was supported in part by Grants from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (Nos. 17052016 and 16601002) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).