The high- and low-affinity receptor binding sites of growth hormone are allosterically coupled
AUTOR(ES)
Walsh, Scott T. R.
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Growth hormone regulates its biological properties via a sequential hormone-induced receptor homodimerization mechanism. Using a mutagenesis-scanning analysis of 81 single and 32 pairwise double mutations, we show that the hormone's two spatially distal receptor binding sites (Site1 and Site2) are allosterically coupled. These allosteric effects are focused among a relatively few residues centered around the interaction between Asp-116 of the hormone and Trp-169 of the receptor in Site2. A rearrangement of this interaction triggered by mutations in Site1 produces both a major conformation and energetic reorganization of Site2, surprisingly without a reduction in overall binding affinity. Additionally, the data suggest a change in the conformational dynamics of several groups in Site2 that appear to be important in defining the Site2 interaction. Changes in binding energy of the affected Site2 residues usually range in magnitude from 3- to 60-fold, but in one case are as large as 104.
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