| Literature DB >> 16460680 |
Tsukasa Sugo1, Hiroshi Tachimoto, Tomoko Chikatsu, Yuko Murakami, Yuhsuke Kikukawa, Shuji Sato, Kuniko Kikuchi, Toshimi Nagi, Mioko Harada, Kazuhiro Ogi, Motohiro Ebisawa, Masaaki Mori.
Abstract
Lysophosphatidyl-L-serine (lysoPS) is thought to be an immunological regulator because it dramatically augments the degranulation of rat peritoneal mast cells (RPMCs). This stimulatory effect may be mediated by a lysoPS receptor, but its molecule has not been identified yet. During a ligand fishing study for the orphan G-protein-coupled receptor 34 (GPR34), we found that lysoPS caused a dose-dependent inhibition of forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation in human GPR34-expressing Chinese hamster ovary (CHO/hGPR34) cells. The CHO/hGPR34 cells were unresponsive to other structurally related phospholipids examined. Quantitative real-time-PCR demonstrated that mRNAs of GPR34 are particularly abundant in mast cells. The effective lysoPS concentration for RPMC degranulation was similar to that required for GPR34 activation, and the structural requirement of lysoPS for RPMC degranulation was in good agreement with that observed in CHO/hGPR34 cells. These results suggest that GPR34 is the functional mast cell lysoPS receptor.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16460680 DOI： 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.01.069
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN： 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575