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Catecholamine Receptors: Structure, Function, and Regulation

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The various receptors for catecholamines, termed adrenergic receptors, represent excellent model systems for the study of receptor-mediated transmembrane signaling systems because of their ubiquity, coupling to well-defined effector mechanisms, and the clinical importance of drugs which interact with them. The β 1 and β 2-adrenergic receptors stimulate adenylyl cyclase via the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Gs. The α 2-adrenergic receptors inhibit adenylyl cyclase via Gi. The α 1-adrenergic receptors stimulate hydrolysis of polyphosphoinositides by activating phospholipase C, thus generating inositol triphosphate and diacylglycerol. Each of these systems is in turn analogous to the retinal light transduction system which consists of the prototypic receptor rhodopsin, a G-protein transducin, and an effector enzyme, which is a cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase.

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  1. Depts. of Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    R. J. Lefkowitz

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  1. Institut für Biologische Chemie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 510, 6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Ulrich Gehring

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Caron, M.G. et al. (1989). Catecholamine Receptors: Structure, Function, and Regulation. In: Gehring, U., Helmreich, E.J.M., Schultz, G. (eds) Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Action. 40. Colloquium der Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie 6.– 8. April 1989 in Mosbach/Baden, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75022-9_21

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