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Alcoholism and GRM7. Jennifer Wagner. Image from http://web.centre.edu/smart/help.html. Alcoholism – The Disease. Due to an imbalance in neurotransmitter levels leading to… 1) Cravings 2) Loss of control 3) Withdrawal 4) Tolerance. Video.
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Alcoholism and GRM7 Jennifer Wagner Image from http://web.centre.edu/smart/help.html
Alcoholism – The Disease Due to an imbalance in neurotransmitter levels leading to… 1) Cravings 2) Loss of control 3) Withdrawal 4) Tolerance Video Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER), 2008 Image from http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/alcoholism-scotch.gif
Alcoholism – Risk Factors Emotional state Psychological factors Social and cultural factors Age, sex Genetics (including GRM7) Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER), 2008 Images from http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/alcoholism-scotch.gif, http://www.cusmibio.unimi.it/documenti/website_new/en/introduction/index2.htm
Vadasz et al. 2007 Discovered link between alcoholism and GRM7 Lowered GRM7 expression correlated to increased preference for alcohol Image from http://www.jax.org/strain/000664.html
Alcoholism – Why study the genes involved? Affects 1 in 12 Americans Leads to damaged relationships, financial problems, and unemployment, as well as severe health problems Understanding the genetic causes may lead to development of better prevention as well as new drug treatments Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER), 2008 Image from http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/alcoholism-scotch.gif
GRM7 G-protein coupled metabotropic glutamate receptor: ANF domain: extra-cellular ligand binding NCDG3: stable linker composed of disulphide bridges 7tm_3: transmembrane region, signal transducer SMART database
Gene Ontology Biological Processes: synaptic transmission, conditioned taste aversion, learning and memory, behavioral fear response, transmission of nerve impulse, multicellular organismal response to stress Cellular Components: integral to plasma membrane, postsynaptic membrane, presynaptic active zone Molecular Functions: glutamate binding, calmodulin binding, calcium channel regulator, PDZ domain binding AmiGO database
Expression Patterns Oscar-Berman and Marinkovic, 2003.
MicroArray data Samples from post-mortem humans averaging 70 yrs GRM7 expression shown to be lower in males GEO database; Rinn, et al., 2004
GRM7 Homologs Entrez Protein database; Anisimova, et al., 2006; Castresana, 2000; Chevenet, et al., 2008; Dereeper, et al., 2008; Guindon, et al., 2003; Notredame, et al., 2000
GRM7 Homologs Homo sapiens GRM7 Mus musculus Grm7 – 99% identity Rattus norvegicus Grm7 – 99% identity Drosophila melanogaster mGluRA – 47% identity Caenorhabditis elegans mgl-1 – 38% identity Entrez Protein database; Altschul, et al., 2005; Altschul, et al., 1997 Images from Pfam database
RNAi C. elegans – mgl-1 post-embryonic slow-growth rate D. melanogaster – mGluRA neurophysiological defects in presynaptic excitability and synaptic morphology Wormbase; Kamath, et al., 2003; Flybase; Bogdanik, 2004 Images from http://www.cafepress.com/celegans, http://flybase.org
Chemical Genetics AMN082 – a selective GRM7 agonist: caused decreased alcohol preference in mice MMPIP – a selective GRM7 antagonist: potential for use in future studies AMN082 MMPIP Tocris bioscience, 2009; Salling, et al., 2008; Suzuki, et al., 2007; Flor, et al., 2008; Mitsukawa, et al., 2005
Protein Interactions Text-mining evidence Experimental evidence STRING database
Protein Interactions - Similarities PICK1 PKCA CAM3 MARKSL1 SYN47 Vesl-2 SMART database
Future Directions IP followed by mass spectrometry to confirm predicted protein interactions Exploring protein interactions MicroArray studies in post- mortem samples from human alcoholics vs. non-alcoholics Image from http://www.bgx.org.uk/microarray.jpg
Conclusions Lowered expression of GRM7 correlates to increased susceptibility to alcoholism GRM7 may not be a good target for therapeutic intervention in alcoholism However, learning more about it may lead to useful treatments Image from http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/alcoholism-scotch.gif
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References -Literature Mitsukawa, K., Yamamoto, R., Ofner, S., Nozulak, J., Pescott, O., Lukic, S., Stoehr, N., Mombereau, C., Kuhn, R., McAllister, K., van der Putten, H., Cryan, J.F., and Flor, P.J. (2005). A selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 agonist: Activation of receptor signaling via an allosteric site modulates stress parameters in vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA ,102(51):18712. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508063102. Notredame C., Higgins DG., Heringa J. (2000). T-Coffee: A novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment. J Oscar-Berman, M. and Marinkovic, K. (2003). Alcoholism and the brain: An overview. Alcohol Research and Health, 27(2), 125. Retrieved February 2, 2009, from: http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=7&sid=07de3f40-7d7a-4f64-ad4a-fb9e6825d1ad%40sessionmgr2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=rzh&AN=2004159543 Rinn, J.L., Rozowsky, J.S., Laurenzi, I.J., Petersen, P., Zon, K., Zhong, W., Gerstein, M., Snyder, M.P. (2004). Sex Specific Transcription in Human Hypothalamus. Retrieved April 22, 2009 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/gds/profileGraph.cgi?&dataset=595j46FBzmACVZ2lmXkl28-&dataset=dfcjbcRKmkHM7-ajk8jjbff$&gmin=24.600000&gmax=750.500000&absc=19194p2p1p1p1p3p1p3p3p3&gds=564&idref=207548_at&annot=GRM7 Salling, M.C., Faccidomo, S., Hodge, C.W. (2008). Nonselective suppression of operant ethanol and sucrose self-administration by the mGluR7 positive allosteric modulator AMN082. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 91(1):14. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.06.006 Suzuki, G., Tsukamoto, N., Fushiki, H., Kawagishi, A., Nakamura, M., Kurihara, H., Mitsuya, M., Ohkubo, M., and Ohta, H. (2007). In Vitro Pharmacological Characterization of Novel Isoxazolopyridone Derivatives as Allosteric Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 7 Antagonists . J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 323(1):147. doi: 10.1124/jpet.107.124701 Tocris Bioscience. (2009). AMN082 dihydrochloride. Retrieved May 2, 2009, from http://www.tocris.com/dispprod.php?ItemId=145226. Tocris Bioscience. (2009). MMPIP hydrochloride. Retrieved May 3, 2009, from http://www.tocris.com/dispprod.php?ItemId=5430. Vadasz, C., Saito, M., Gyetvai, B. M., Oros, M., Szakall, I., Kovacs, K. M., Prasad, V. V. T. S., Toth, R. (2007). Glutamate receptor metabotropic 7 is cis-regulated in the mouse brain and modulates alcohol drinking. Genomics, 90(6):690. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.08.006
References - Databases AmiGO: http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi Entrez Protein: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/ Flybase: http://flybase.org/ GEO: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ Pfam: http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/ SMART: http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ STRING: http://string.embl.de/ Wormbase: http://www.wormbase.org/