Abstract
GPR88 is an orphan G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) considered as a promising therapeutic target for neuropsychiatric disorders; its pharmacology, however, remains scarcely understood. Based on our previous report of increased delta opioid receptor activity in Gpr88 null mice, we investigated the impact of GPR88 co-expression on the signaling of opioid receptors in vitro and revealed that GPR88 inhibits the activation of both their G protein- and b-arrestin-dependent signaling pathways. In Gpr88 knockout mice, morphine-induced locomotor sensitization, withdrawal and supra-spinal analgesia were facilitated, consistent with a tonic inhibitory action of GPR88 on µOR signaling. We then explored GPR88 interactions with more striatal versus non-neuronal GPCRs, and revealed that GPR88 can decrease the G protein-dependent signaling of most receptors in close proximity, but impedes b-arrestin recruitment by all receptors tested. Our study unravels an unsuspected buffering role of GPR88 expression on GPCR signaling, with intriguing consequences for opioid and striatal functions.
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Funding
Region Centre-Val de Loire (ARD2020 Biomedicaments - GPCRAb)
- Julie Le Merrer
- Jérôme AJ Becker
LabEX MAbImprove
- Julie Le Merrer
- Jérôme AJ Becker
Fonds Unique Interministériel (ATHOS)
- Brigitte L Kieffer
- Julie Le Merrer
- Jérôme AJ Becker
Marie-Curie/AgreeSkills Program (Postdoctoral Fellowshio)
- Lucie P Pellissier
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All experimental procedures were conducted in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive 2010/63/EU and approved by the Comité d'Ethique pour l'Expérimentation Animale de l'ICS et de l'IGBMC (Com'Eth, 2012-047)
Reviewing Editor
- Volker Dötsch, Goethe University, Germany
Publication history
- Received: July 25, 2019
- Accepted: January 30, 2020
- Accepted Manuscript published: January 31, 2020 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: February 11, 2020 (version 2)
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© 2020, Laboute et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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