| 2012 |
GPR158 (and GPR179) physically interact with RGS7 complexes, recruit them to the plasma membrane, and augment their ability to regulate GPCR signaling; loss of GPR179 in a mouse model of night blindness prevented targeting of RGS to the postsynaptic compartment of bipolar neurons, establishing the functional role of this interaction in compartmentalizing G protein signaling. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, subcellular fractionation, mouse knockout model (night blindness), plasma membrane recruitment assays |
The Journal of cell biology |
High |
22689652
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| 2015 |
GPR158 stabilizes RGS7 post-transcriptionally, maintains its membrane association in the brain, and allosterically enhances RGS7 GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity through a conserved sequence in the proximal C terminus; the distal C terminus contains PDE-Eγ-like motifs that selectively recruit activated G proteins. Knockout of GPR158 in mice causes marked loss of RGS7 and its membrane association. |
GPR158 knockout mouse, in vitro GAP activity assays, C-terminal domain mapping/mutagenesis, pulldown assays, western blot |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
25792749
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| 2017 |
GPR158 is expressed in neurons of the CA3 region of the hippocampus and transduces osteocalcin (OCN) signaling to regulate hippocampal-dependent memory and anxiety-like behaviors, in part through inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) and BDNF pathways; genetic, electrophysiological, molecular, and behavioral assays established GPR158 as the neuronal receptor for OCN. |
Genetic (knockout mice), electrophysiology, behavioral assays (memory, anxiety), molecular signaling assays (IP3, BDNF measurement) |
The Journal of experimental medicine |
High |
28851741
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| 2018 |
GPR158 is upregulated in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) by glucocorticoids in response to chronic stress; viral overexpression of GPR158 in the PFC induces depressive-like behaviors, while GPR158 ablation produces antidepressant-like phenotype and stress resiliency. GPR158 exerts these effects by modulating synaptic strength via AMPA receptor activity. |
Chronic stress mouse model, viral overexpression, GPR158 knockout, behavioral assays, glucocorticoid treatment, AMPA receptor activity measurements |
eLife |
High |
29419376
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| 2018 |
GPR158 acts as a postsynaptic binding partner for heparan sulfate proteoglycan glypican 4 (GPC4), which is enriched on hippocampal mossy fiber axons; GPR158-induced presynaptic differentiation requires cell-surface GPC4 and co-receptor LAR. Loss of GPR158 increases mossy fiber synapse density but disrupts bouton morphology, active zone and postsynaptic density ultrastructure, and reduces synaptic strength selectively at mossy fiber-CA3 synapses. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, pulldown assay, immunofluorescence, GPR158 knockout mouse, electron microscopy, electrophysiology |
Neuron |
High |
30290982
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| 2018 |
RbAp48/Rbbp4 controls expression of GPR158 and BDNF in the hippocampus; inhibition of RbAp48 inhibits OCN/GPR158-dependent cognition; disruption of OCN/GPR158 signaling downregulates RbAp48, and activation of OCN/GPR158 pathway increases RbAp48 expression in the aged dentate gyrus to rescue age-related memory loss, establishing a feedback loop between RbAp48 and GPR158. |
Hippocampal RbAp48 inhibition (mouse), GPR158 knockout, behavioral memory assays, western blot for protein expression |
Cell reports |
Medium |
30355501
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| 2019 |
GPR158 forms a physical complex with RGS7 that controls A-type potassium channel Kv4.2 subunit in layer 2/3 PFC pyramidal neurons; GPR158 physically associates with Kv4.2 and promotes its function by suppressing inhibitory cAMP-PKA-mediated phosphorylation, thereby controlling neuronal excitability and stress-induced depressive-like behaviors. |
Co-immunoprecipitation (GPR158-Kv4.2 association), patch-clamp electrophysiology, GPR158/RGS7 knockout mice, chronic stress paradigm, cAMP-PKA assays |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
31311860
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| 2019 |
Gpr158 deficiency in mice impairs hippocampal CA1 dendritic architecture (reduced dendritic length, surface, branching in apical but not basal dendrites) and reduces Schaffer collateral-mediated postsynaptic currents while increasing intrinsic excitability of CA1 pyramidal neurons; these morphological deficits correlate with spatial memory impairments. |
Gpr158 knockout mouse, Morris water maze, passive avoidance test, patch-clamp electrophysiology, dendritic morphology analysis (ex vivo and in vitro) |
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience |
Medium |
31749686
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| 2021 |
Cryo-EM structures of human GPR158 alone and in complex with RGS7-Gβ5 reveal: (1) GPR158 forms a homodimer stabilized by a pair of phospholipids; (2) it possesses an extracellular Cache domain as an unusual ligand-binding domain; (3) the structural basis of GPR158 coupling to RGS7-Gβ5 is provided by interaction of the C terminus intracellular coiled-coil region with RGS7. |
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), structural determination of apo and RGS7-Gβ5-bound states |
Science (New York, N.Y.) |
High |
34793198
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| 2021 |
Cryo-EM structures of GPR158 alone and in complex with one or two RGS7-Gβ5 heterodimers reveal: GPR158 dimerizes through Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS)-fold extracellular and TM domains connected by an EGF-like linker; ICL2, ICL3, TM3, and first helix of the cytoplasmic coiled-coil provide a platform for the DHEX domain of one RGS7, while the second helix recruits another RGS7; the unique RGS7-binding site underlies selectivity of GPR158 for RGS7. |
Cryo-EM structural determination, domain analysis, structure-based selectivity analysis |
Nature communications |
High |
34815401
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| 2023 |
GPR158 is a metabotropic glycine receptor (mGlyR): glycine and taurine directly bind to the extracellular Cache domain of GPR158; glycine binding inhibits the RGS7-Gβ5 signaling complex associated with the receptor and inhibits cAMP production; glycine (but not taurine) acts through GPR158 to regulate neuronal excitability in cortical neurons. |
Ligand binding assays (Cache domain), in vitro signaling assays (cAMP measurement), electrophysiology in cortical neurons, GPR158 knockout comparison |
Science (New York, N.Y.) |
High |
36996198
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| 2013 |
In trabecular meshwork cells, glucocorticoid treatment increases GPR158 expression through transcriptional mechanisms; endogenous and overexpressed GPR158 localizes almost entirely to the nucleus via a bipartite nuclear localization signal (NLS) in the 8th helix; inhibition of clathrin-mediated endocytosis shifts GPR158 to the plasma membrane; NLS mutation abrogates GPR158-mediated enhancement of cell proliferation and cyclin D1 upregulation, demonstrating a functional requirement for nuclear localization. |
siRNA knockdown, transient overexpression, clathrin endocytosis inhibitors, NLS mutagenesis, subcellular fractionation/immunofluorescence, cell proliferation assays, western blot |
PloS one |
Medium |
23451275
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| 2015 |
GPR158 promotes prostate cancer cell proliferation independently of androgen receptor (AR) functionality, and this requires nuclear localization; GPR158 expression is stimulated by androgens and GPR158 stimulates AR expression (positive feedback); GPR158 promotes anchorage-independent colony formation and its nuclear localization co-localizes with elevated AR in the Pten knockout mouse prostate tumor model. |
siRNA knockdown, overexpression, nuclear localization analysis (immunofluorescence), anchorage-independent colony assay, conditional Pten KO mouse model, AR/androgen treatment |
PloS one |
Medium |
25693195
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| 2019 |
GPR158 overexpression enhances cAMP production in response to epinephrine in trabecular meshwork cells; Gpr158 knockout mice show altered intraocular pressure response to epinephrine (pressure-lowering effect negated), identifying GPR158 as a homeostatic regulator of intraocular pressure via cAMP signaling. |
GPR158 overexpression, Gpr158 knockout mouse, cAMP measurement, intraocular pressure measurement, epinephrine challenge |
Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics |
Medium |
30855200
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| 2024 |
Glycine-dependent activation of GPR158 in nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons (MSNs) increases firing rate, reduces M-current (Kv7/KCNQ channels) amplitude, and this effect requires PKA and ERK signaling; GPR158 activation increases ERK phosphorylation and Kv7.2 serine phosphorylation, establishing a GPR158/PKA/ERK/Kv7.2 signaling pathway controlling MSN excitability. |
Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings, pharmacological inhibitors of PKA and ERK, phosphorylation assays (ERK, Kv7.2), Kv7 channel blockers (occlusion experiments) |
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS |
Medium |
38884814
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| 2024 |
GPR158 in pyramidal neurons of the medial PFC controls social novelty behavior; loss of GPR158 reduces excitatory synaptic transmission, glutamate vesicle abundance, and expression/phosphorylation of GluN2B in the mPFC; reintroduction of GPR158 in the mPFC or chemogenetic activation of GPR158-ablated pyramidal neurons rescues the social novelty deficit. |
Constitutive and conditional Gpr158 knockout, viral GPR158 re-expression, DREADD chemogenetics, behavioral assays, western blot (GluN2B expression/phosphorylation), electron microscopy (glutamate vesicles) |
Cell reports |
Medium |
39383040
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| 2025 |
GPR158 forms a postsynaptic complex with PLCXD2 (a constitutively active PLC family member) that controls spine apparatus (SA) abundance in dendritic spines; in the absence of GPR158, unrestrained PLCXD2 activity impedes SA incorporation and hampers structural and functional dendritic spine maturation; extracellular HSPG binding modulates the GPR158-PLCXD2 interaction, providing spatiotemporal control; this establishes a direct GPCR-like receptor-to-PLC signaling pathway bypassing canonical G protein-mediated PLC regulation. |
Sparse genetic manipulation of mouse cortical neurons in vivo, co-immunoprecipitation (GPR158-PLCXD2), electron microscopy (spine apparatus), electrophysiology, HSPG binding assays |
Developmental cell |
Medium |
40393451
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| 2025 |
Trilobatin directly binds to GPR158 and decreases its protein expression level; GPR158 deficiency promotes mitophagy and attenuates depressive-like behaviors; trilobatin's antidepressant effect was strengthened in GPR158-deficient mice, supporting GPR158 as its direct target. |
Direct binding assay (trilobatin-GPR158), GPR158 knockout mouse, CUMS chronic stress model, mitophagy assays, autophagy-associated protein expression, behavioral assays |
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry |
Low |
39962827
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