[HTML][HTML] A mutation-induced activated state of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor. Extending the ternary complex model.

P Samama, S Cotecchia, T Costa… - Journal of Biological …, 1993 - Elsevier
We have replaced the C-terminal portion of the third intracellular loop of the beta 2-adrenergic
receptor (residues 266-272) with the homologous region of the alpha 1B-adrenergic …

Constitutive activity of receptors coupled to guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins

RJ Lefkowitz, S Cotecchia, P Samama… - Trends in pharmacological …, 1993 - cell.com
Adrenoceptors are prototypic members of the superfamily of seven transmembrane domain,
G protein-coupled receptors. Study of the properties of several mutationally activated …

Constitutive activation of the alpha 1B-adrenergic receptor by all amino acid substitutions at a single site. Evidence for a region which constrains receptor activation.

MA Kjelsberg, S Cotecchia, J Ostrowski… - Journal of Biological …, 1992 - ASBMB
Mutations in an intracellular region of the alpha 1B-adrenergic receptor constitutively activate
the receptor, resulting in G protein coupling in the absence of agonist, as evidenced by …

Molecular cloning and expression of the cDNA for the hamster alpha 1-adrenergic receptor.

S Cotecchia, DA Schwinn… - Proceedings of the …, 1988 - National Acad Sciences
The cDNA for the Syrian hamster alpha 1-adrenergic receptor has been cloned with
oligonucleotides corresponding to the partial amino acid sequence of the receptor protein purified …

Constitutively active mutants of the alpha 1B‐adrenergic receptor: role of highly conserved polar amino acids in receptor activation.

…, T Costa, PG De Benedetti, S Cotecchia - The EMBO …, 1996 - embopress.org
Site‐directed mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulations of the alpha 1B‐adrenergic
receptor (AR) were combined to explore the potential molecular changes correlated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular cloning and expression of the cDNA for a novel alpha 1-adrenergic receptor subtype.

…, MG Caron, RJ Lefkowitz, S Cotecchia - Journal of Biological …, 1990 - Elsevier
A novel alpha 1-adrenergic receptor subtype has been cloned from a bovine brain cDNA
library. The deduced amino acid sequence is that of a 466-residue polypeptide. The structure is …

Decreased blood pressure response in mice deficient of the α1b-adrenergic receptor

…, A Schmidt, F Beermann, S Cotecchia - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate the functional role of different α 1 -adrenergic receptor (α 1 -AR) subtypes in
vivo, we have applied a gene targeting approach to create a mouse model lacking the α 1b -…

α1b-Adrenergic receptors control locomotor and rewarding effects of psychostimulants and opiates

…, G Blanc, J Glowinski, S Cotecchia… - Journal of …, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
Drugs of abuse, such as psychostimulants and opiates, are generally considered as exerting
their locomotor and rewarding effects through an increased dopaminergic transmission in …

G-protein-coupled receptor genes as protooncogenes: constitutively activating mutation of the alpha 1B-adrenergic receptor enhances mitogenesis and tumorigenicity …

…, MG Caron, S Cotecchia - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
The alpha 1B-adrenergic receptor (alpha 1B-ADR) is a member of the G-protein-coupled
family of transmembrane receptors. When transfected into Rat-1 and NIH 3T3 fibroblasts, this …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular cloning and expression of the cDNA for the alpha 1A-adrenergic receptor. The gene for which is located on human chromosome 5.

JW Lomasney, S Cotecchia, W Lorenz… - Journal of Biological …, 1991 - Elsevier
Pharmacological and molecular cloning studies have demonstrated heterogeneity of alpha
1-adrenergic receptors. We have now cloned two alpha 1-adrenergic receptors from a rat …