ARNO/cytohesin-2 regulates desensitization of the A2A adenosine receptor in rat pheochromocytoma cells
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ARNO/cytohesin-2 regulates desensitization of the A2A adenosine receptor in rat pheochromocytoma cells
The A2A adenosine receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor which desensitizes upon prolonged agonist stimulation. In order to understand the biological function of its unusually long C-terminus, we screened a human brain library for proteins capable of binding to the last 120 amino acids of the A2A receptor. We identified a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the small G protein ARF6 (ARNO/c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pharmacology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2210
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2210-8-s1-a43