PR00899

GPCRSTE3

PRINTS entry
Member databasePRINTS
PRINTS typefamily
Short nameGPCRSTE3

Description
Imported from IPR001499

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a vast protein family that encompasses a wide range of functions, including various autocrine, paracrine and endocrine processes. They show considerable diversity at the sequence level, on the basis of which they can be separated into distinct groups
[6]
. The term clan can be used to describe the GPCRs, as they embrace a group of families for which there are indications of evolutionary relationship, but between which there is no statistically significant similarity in sequence
[2]
. The currently known clan members include rhodopsin-like GPCRs (Class A, GPCRA), secretin-like GPCRs (Class B, GPCRB), metabotropic glutamate receptor family (Class C, GPCRC), fungal mating pheromone receptors (Class D, GPCRD), cAMP receptors (Class E, GPCRE) and frizzled/smoothened (Class F, GPCRF)
[2, 10, 9, 8, 5]
. GPCRs are major drug targets, and are consequently the subject of considerable research interest. It has been reported that the repertoire of GPCRs for endogenous ligands consists of approximately 400 receptors in humans and mice
[6]
. Most GPCRs are identified on the basis of their DNA sequences, rather than the ligand they bind, those that are unmatched to known natural ligands are designated by as orphan GPCRs, or unclassified GPCRs
[4]
.

GPCR Fungal pheromone mating factor receptors form a distinct family of G-protein-coupled receptors, and are also known as Class D GPCRs.

The Fungal pheromone mating factor receptors STE2 and STE3 are integral membrane proteins that may be involved in the response to mating factors on the cell membrane
[1, 7, 3]
. The amino acid sequences of both receptors contain high proportions of hydrophobic residues grouped into 7 domains,in a manner reminiscent of the rhodopsins and other receptors believed tointeract with G-proteins. However, while a similar 3D framework has been proposed to account for this, there is no significant sequence similarity either between STE2 and STE3, or between these and the rhodopsin-type family: the receptors thereofore bear their own unique '7TM' signatures which is why they have been given their own GPCR group: Class D Fungal mating pheromone receptors.

This entry represents the STE3-type family of fungal pheromone mating factor receptors. The STE3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker's yeast) is the cell-surface receptor that binds the 13-residue lipopeptide a-factor. Several related fungal pheromone receptor sequences are known: these include pheromone B alpha 1 and B alpha 3, and pheromone B beta 1 receptors from Schizophyllum commune; pheromone receptor 1 from Ustilago hordei; and pheromone receptors 1 and 2 from Ustilago maydis. Members of the family share about 20% sequence identity.

References
Imported from IPR001499

1.Nucleotide sequences of STE2 and STE3, cell type-specific sterile genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nakayama N, Miyajima A, Arai K. EMBO J. 4, 2643-2648, (1985). View articlePMID: 16453635

2.Fingerprinting G-protein-coupled receptors. Attwood TK, Findlay JB. Protein Eng. 7, 195-203, (1994). View articlePMID: 8170923

3.STE2 protein of Saccharomyces kluyveri is a member of the rhodopsin/beta-adrenergic receptor family and is responsible for recognition of the peptide ligand alpha factor. Marsh L, Herskowitz I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85, 3855-9, (1988). View articlePMID: 2836861

4.G protein-coupled receptor deorphanizations. Civelli O, Reinscheid RK, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Fredriksson R, Schioth HB. Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 53, 127-46, (2013). PMID: 23020293

5.Comprehensive repertoire and phylogenetic analysis of the G protein-coupled receptors in human and mouse. Bjarnadottir TK, Gloriam DE, Hellstrand SH, Kristiansson H, Fredriksson R, Schioth HB. Genomics 88, 263-73, (2006). View articlePMID: 16753280

6.The G protein-coupled receptor repertoires of human and mouse. Vassilatis DK, Hohmann JG, Zeng H, Li F, Ranchalis JE, Mortrud MT, Brown A, Rodriguez SS, Weller JR, Wright AC, Bergmann JE, Gaitanaris GA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 4903-8, (2003). View articlePMID: 12679517

7.The yeast alpha-factor receptor: structural properties deduced from the sequence of the STE2 gene. Burkholder AC, Hartwell LH. Nucleic Acids Res. 13, 8463-75, (1985). View articlePMID: 3001640

8.IUPHAR-DB: the IUPHAR database of G protein-coupled receptors and ion channels. Harmar AJ, Hills RA, Rosser EM, Jones M, Buneman OP, Dunbar DR, Greenhill SD, Hale VA, Sharman JL, Bonner TI, Catterall WA, Davenport AP, Delagrange P, Dollery CT, Foord SM, Gutman GA, Laudet V, Neubig RR, Ohlstein EH, Olsen RW, Peters J, Pin JP, Ruffolo RR, Searls DB, Wright MW, Spedding M. Nucleic Acids Res. 37, D680-5, (2009). View articlePMID: 18948278

9.International Union of Pharmacology. XLVI. G protein-coupled receptor list. Foord SM, Bonner TI, Neubig RR, Rosser EM, Pin JP, Davenport AP, Spedding M, Harmar AJ. Pharmacol. Rev. 57, 279-88, (2005). View articlePMID: 15914470

10.GCRDb: a G-protein-coupled receptor database. Kolakowski LF Jr. Recept. Channels 2, 1-7, (1994). PMID: 8081729

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