Abstract
AbstractBiased signaling of G protein-coupled receptors describes an ability of different ligands that preferentially activate an alternative downstream signaling pathway. In this work, we identified and characterized different N-terminal truncations of endogenous chemokine CCL15 as balanced or biased agonists targeting CCR1, and presented three cryogenic-electron microscopy structures of the CCR1–Gi complex in the ligand-free form or bound to different CCL15 truncations with a resolution of 2.6–2.9 Å, illustrating the structural basis of natural biased signaling that initiates an inflammation response. Complemented with pharmacological and computational studies, these structures revealed it was the conformational change of Tyr291 (Y2917.43) in CCR1 that triggered its polar network rearrangement in the orthosteric binding pocket and allosterically regulated the activation of β-arrestin signaling. Our structure of CCL15-bound CCR1 also exhibited a critical site for ligand binding distinct from many other chemokine–receptor complexes, providing new insights into the mode of chemokine recognition.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
Cited by
57 articles.
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