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The gray short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ), a small (60-150 g) marsupial native to scrub forests of southeastern Brazil, provides new opportunities for study of olfactory communication and pheromonal activation of reproduction.
The elimination of the terminal two hydroxyl amino acid residues in the EESSTSE motif is sufficient to prevent down-regulation of the opossum alpha-2C adrenergic receptor.
Thus, we postulated that the lack of down-regulation in the human alpha-2C subtype is related to having only two rather than four serines in the motif, and that mutating the threonine and serine residues at the end of the opossum EESSTSE motif to valine and alanine residues to give EESSVAE might prevent down-regulation of the opossum alpha-2C receptor.
The opossum alpha-2C adrenergic receptor has a very similar acidic serine motif (EESSTSE) in the third intracellular loop (Figure 1; [ 21 ] ), whereas the human alpha-2C receptor has a DESSAAAE sequence in the same region (Figure 2; [ 22 ] ). Thus, we postulated that the lack of down-regulation in the human alpha-2C was related to having only two rather than four serines in the motif, and furthermore that the ability of the opossum alpha-2C to undergo down-regulation was dependent on having all four serine/threonine residues in the EESSTSE motif.
Modification of the EESSTSE to EESSVAE was sufficient to prevent down-regulation of the opossum alpha-2C adrenergic receptor.