| 1995 |
mGluR5 is a G-protein coupled receptor that couples to phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis and calcium mobilization via inositol triphosphate. Immunoelectron microscopy in rat brain showed it is predominantly localized on postsynaptic dendritic spines and shafts, with some presynaptic axon terminal labeling, suggesting a presynaptic autoreceptor role in addition to postsynaptic function. |
Western blot (receptor-specific antibody), immunocytochemistry, electron microscopy, transfection of nonneuronal cells |
The Journal of comparative neurology |
High |
7636025
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| 1995 |
mGluR5 protein expression is dramatically higher during early hypothalamic development compared to adults (sixfold decrease in hypothalamus, threefold in cortex with maturation). Ultrastructurally, mGluR5 localizes to the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane on hypothalamic dendrites, dendritic spines, and perikarya, and is also expressed on astrocyte processes surrounding asymmetric synapses. |
Western blot, Northern blot, immunocytochemistry, electron microscopy |
The Journal of comparative neurology |
High |
8576426
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| 1997 |
In native astrocytes expressing mGluR5 without mGluR1 interference, mGluR5 activation induces phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis without stimulating cAMP formation. Prolonged agonist exposure causes two-phase desensitization: an early phase (completed by 1 h) independent of receptor internalization or PKC/PKA phosphorylation, and a late phase (by 24 h) associated with receptor down-regulation. Resensitization after prolonged exposure requires new protein synthesis. |
Pharmacological assays (PI hydrolysis, cAMP measurement), phorbol ester treatment, receptor down-regulation assays in cultured astrocytes |
Journal of neurochemistry |
High |
9202306
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| 2001 |
Pharmacological activation of mGluR5 (but not mGluR1) by DHPG is sufficient to induce long-term depression (LTD) in hippocampal CA1. This mGluR5-LTD is saturable, mechanistically distinct from NMDAR-dependent LTD, and shares an expression mechanism with protein synthesis-dependent LTD induced by synaptic stimulation. |
Electrophysiology (field recordings in hippocampal slices), selective pharmacological tools (DHPG, mGluR5 antagonists), protein synthesis inhibitors |
Journal of neurophysiology |
High |
11431513
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| 2001 |
mGluR5 expressed on peripheral terminals of primary afferent neurons mediates inflammatory hyperalgesia. Intraplantar but not intracerebroventricular or intrathecal injection of the selective mGluR5 antagonist MPEP reduces Freund's complete adjuvant-induced hind paw hyperalgesia. Group I mGluR agonist-induced mechanical hyperalgesia was blocked by MPEP but not by the mGluR1 antagonist 4-CPG. |
In vivo pharmacology (intraplantar, i.c.v., intrathecal microinjection), behavioral pain testing, in vivo electrophysiology (dorsal horn WDR neuron recordings), double-label immunohistochemistry (mGluR5 + βIII-tubulin; mGluR5 + TRPV1) |
Neuropharmacology |
High |
11077066
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| 2001 |
mGluR5 is required for spatial learning and context-dependent fear conditioning. mGluR5 knockout mice are deficient in Morris water maze performance and contextual fear conditioning, establishing a pathway linking mGluR5 → PKC → Src → enhanced NMDAR open probability → LTP of NMDAR, necessary for spatial memory. |
Genetic knockout (mGluR5 null mice), Morris water maze, fear conditioning, hippocampal slice electrophysiology (LTP recording) |
Physiology & behavior |
Medium |
11566212
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| 2003 |
mGluR5 endocytosis occurs via a clathrin-independent, dynamin-2-dependent pathway. mGluR5a and mGluR5b internalize constitutively in COS-7 cells and neurons (axons and dendrites) even without ligand activation or in the presence of an inverse agonist. Dominant-negative Eps15 (clathrin pathway blocker) does not prevent mGluR5 endocytosis, but dynamin-2 is required. |
Transfection in COS-7 cells and hippocampal neurons, immunocytochemistry, quantitative image analysis, biochemical endocytosis assay, dominant-negative Eps15 constructs |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
12529370
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| 2003 |
mGluR5 potentiates adenosine A2A receptor-mediated DARPP-32 phosphorylation at Thr-34 in neostriatal neurons by stimulating A2A receptor-coupled cAMP formation in an ERK-dependent manner. The action of mGluR5 requires A2A receptor activation by endogenous adenosine. Coactivation of mGluR5 and A2A receptors synergistically increases DARPP-32 phosphorylation. The effect is not dependent on PLC activation. |
Neostriatal slice pharmacology, DARPP-32 phosphorylation assays, selective receptor antagonists, kinase inhibitors (ERK, PLC, p38, CK1, Cdk5) |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
High |
12538871
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| 2004 |
mGluR5 expressed in HEK293 cells can both inhibit and potentiate NMDA receptor responses through distinct mechanisms. The inhibitory influence depends on Ca2+ release from stores (thapsigargin-sensitive) and PKC activation. Removal of these processes reveals a tonic mGluR5- and protein tyrosine kinase (PTK)-dependent potentiation of NMDA receptors. Protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) inhibitors occlude DHPG-induced NMDAR potentiation. |
Ca2+ imaging in HEK293 cells co-transfected with NR1a, NR2A, and mGlu5a; pharmacological dissection with thapsigargin, staurosporine, PTK inhibitors (genistein, PP2), PTP inhibitors (orthovanadate, PAO) |
British journal of pharmacology |
Medium |
15210575
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| 2006 |
The PDZ scaffold NHERF-2 directly and selectively interacts with mGluR5 (not mGluR1a) via the second PDZ domain of NHERF-2 binding to the C-terminus of mGluR5. A single point mutation in mGluR5-CT completely disrupts this interaction. NHERF-2 co-immunoprecipitates with full-length mGluR5 in cells, and co-expression of NHERF-2 prolongs mGluR5-mediated calcium mobilization and potentiates mGluR5-mediated cell death. |
PDZ domain proteomic array screening, reverse overlay assay, point mutagenesis, co-immunoprecipitation, confocal microscopy, functional calcium assays, cell death assays, immunohistochemistry in mouse brain |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
16891310
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| 2007 |
FMRP binds to the coding region of APP mRNA at a guanine-rich, G-quartet-like sequence. Stimulation of cortical synaptoneurosomes or neurons with the mGluR5 agonist DHPG increases APP translation in wild-type but not fmr-1 knockout samples. APP mRNA co-immunoprecipitates with FMRP in resting synaptoneurosomes, but this interaction is lost shortly after DHPG treatment, indicating that mGluR5 activation releases FMRP repression of APP mRNA translation. |
RNA-protein binding assays, co-immunoprecipitation (FMRP-APP mRNA), DHPG stimulation of synaptoneurosomes and primary neurons, metabolic labeling, fmr-1 KO mouse comparison, ELISA (Aβ levels) |
PLoS biology |
High |
17298186
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| 2008 |
mGluR5 functions as a presynaptic autoreceptor on glutamatergic cortical nerve terminals, facilitating evoked glutamate exocytosis. Low concentrations of DHPG (0.3 μM) potentiate depolarization-evoked [3H]D-aspartate release via mGluR5 (blocked by MPEP, not CPCCOEt), whereas high concentrations (50 μM) act via mGluR1. This mGluR5 presynaptic role was confirmed by absence of potentiation in mGluR5 knockout synaptosome preparations. |
Synaptosome [3H]D-aspartate release assay, selective pharmacological antagonists (MPEP, CPCCOEt), mGluR5 knockout mice, Western blot of subsynaptic fractions, immunocytochemistry |
Neuropharmacology |
High |
18625255
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| 2009 |
Activation of cell surface versus intracellular mGluR5 produces distinct Ca2+ signatures and unique downstream signaling. Both pools activate JNK, CaMK, and CREB phosphorylation; however, only intracellular mGluR5 activates ERK1/2 and Elk-1 phosphorylation, resulting in upregulation of c-fos and egr1 but not c-jun. CaMK kinase mediates CREB phosphorylation downstream of mGluR5, while CaMKII is upstream of intracellular mGluR5-mediated Elk-1 phosphorylation. Intracellular mGluR5 is activated by glutamate transported into the cell. |
Pharmacological isolation of surface vs. intracellular receptor pools (cell-impermeable vs. cell-permeable ligands), Ca2+ imaging, phospho-protein assays (JNK, CaMK, CREB, ERK1/2, Elk-1), kinase inhibitors, gene expression analysis, genetic approaches |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
19840937
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| 2012 |
PKC phosphorylation of mGluR5 at Ser901 enhances binding of the E3 ligase Siah-1A by displacing calmodulin (CaM). Siah-1A binding to mGluR5 decreases receptor surface expression and increases lysosomal degradation via endosomal trafficking. CaM and Siah-1A compete for mGluR5 binding in a phosphorylation-dependent manner in rat hippocampal neurons. |
Co-immunoprecipitation in hippocampal neurons, site-directed mutagenesis (S901 phosphorylation site), surface biotinylation assay, lysosomal degradation assays |
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience |
High |
23152621
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| 2012 |
mGluR5 constitutively internalizes in HEK293 cells in the absence of ligand. Following endocytosis, the receptor enters the recycling compartment and returns to the cell surface; no lysosomal localization is observed after constitutive internalization. |
Surface biotinylation assays, antibody feeding internalization assay, confocal microscopy with organelle markers in HEK293 cells |
Biochemical and biophysical research communications |
Medium |
22995293
|
| 2014 |
Intracellular mGluR5 is present on the endoplasmic reticulum and nucleus of hippocampal CA1 neurons, where it colocalizes with the glutamate transporter EAAT3. Inhibition of EAAT3 prevented accumulation of radiolabeled agonist at intracellular mGluR5. Both intracellular and cell surface mGluR5 induced oscillatory Ca2+ responses, but only intracellular mGluR5 triggered sustained high-amplitude Ca2+ rises in dendrites. Activation of intracellular mGluR5 alone mediated both electrically- and chemically-induced LTD but not LTP in acute hippocampal slices. |
Pharmacological isolation of intracellular vs. surface mGluR5 (cell-permeable vs. impermeable ligands), Ca2+ imaging, radiolabeled agonist uptake assays, EAAT3 inhibition, acute hippocampal slice electrophysiology |
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience |
High |
24672004
|
| 2015 |
p11 (S100A10) directly binds to the cytoplasmic tail of mGluR5. p11 and mGluR5 mutually facilitate their accumulation at the plasma membrane, and p11 increases cell-surface availability of mGluR5. Overexpression of p11 potentiates mGluR5 agonist-induced calcium responses. Knockout of mGluR5 or p11 specifically in glutamatergic neurons causes depression-like behaviors, while knockout in GABAergic neurons causes antidepressant-like behaviors. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, cell-surface biotinylation, calcium signaling assays, cell-type-specific conditional knockout (glutamatergic vs. GABAergic neurons), behavioral assays |
Molecular psychiatry |
High |
26370144
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| 2015 |
Biased mGluR5 PAMs can selectively potentiate mGluR5 coupling to Gαq-mediated signaling without potentiating mGluR5 modulation of NMDAR currents or NMDAR-dependent synaptic plasticity. VU0409551 produced antipsychotic-like and cognition-enhancing activity in animal models despite not potentiating NMDAR function, demonstrating that NMDAR current modulation is not required for in vivo efficacy of mGluR5 PAMs. |
Electrophysiology (hippocampal slice NMDAR currents), calcium signaling assays (Gαq), behavioral models (psychosis, cognition), selective PAM pharmacology |
Neuron |
High |
25937172
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| 2016 |
In spinal dorsal horn neurons, >80% of mGluR5 is intracellular, with ~60% located on nuclear membranes where activation produces sustained Ca2+ responses. Nerve injury increases nuclear mGluR5 expression and receptor-mediated pERK1/2, Arc/Arg3.1, and c-fos. Spinal blockade of intracellular (but not cell surface) mGluR5 reduces neuropathic pain behaviors. Blocking EAAT-3 to reduce intracellular glutamate mimics the effects of intracellular mGluR5 antagonism. |
Immunofluorescence/confocal microscopy (subcellular fractionation), Ca2+ imaging, intrathecal drug delivery (cell-impermeable vs. permeable mGluR5 antagonists), EAAT-3 inhibition, behavioral pain testing, Western blot (pERK1/2, Arc, c-fos) |
Nature communications |
High |
26837579
|
| 2016 |
mGluR5 (postsynaptic) and CB1 (presynaptic) receptors work cooperatively to promote neuroprotection against glutamate insult. Pharmacological blockade or genetic ablation of either receptor abolishes both CB1- and mGluR5-mediated neuroprotection. The neuroprotective mechanism involves MEK/ERK1/2 and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways, rather than reduced glutamate release or diminished intracellular Ca2+. |
Primary corticostriatal neuron cultures, pharmacological receptor blockade, genetic ablation, cell death assays, kinase inhibitors, signaling assays (ERK1/2, AKT phosphorylation) |
Molecular brain |
Medium |
27543109
|
| 2017 |
mGluR5 agonist CHPG treatment increases RANTES production and amplifies irradiation-induced NF-κB activation in T lymphocytes, while mGluR5 inhibition with MPEP decreases RANTES after irradiation. mGluR5 receptors cluster following irradiation in T cells. |
T lymphocyte cell line (Jurkat E6.1), mGluR5 agonist/antagonist treatment, ELISA (RANTES), NF-κB/GFP reporter assay, immunofluorescence (receptor clustering) |
Translational psychiatry |
Medium |
29849049
|
| 2017 |
Peripheral mGluR5 signaling sensitizes TRPV1 and TRPA1 via PKCε phosphorylation to produce thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. Continuous facial skin injection of mGluR5 agonist (CHPG) or glutamate decreased pain thresholds, which were reversed by mGluR5 antagonist MTEP, TRPA1 antagonist, TRPV1 antagonist, or PKCε translocation inhibitor applied peripherally. PKCε phosphorylation in trigeminal ganglion was enhanced by glutamate treatment. |
In vivo pain behavioral assays, intraplantar pharmacological injections, Western blot (PKCε phosphorylation), immunohistochemistry (co-expression of mGluR5, TRPV1, TRPA1, PKCε) |
Pain |
Medium |
28621704
|
| 2017 |
Melatonin/MT2 receptor signaling reduces pain by impeding Tet1-dependent demethylation of the mGluR5 promoter in spinal dorsal horn neurons. Spinal Tet1 gene transfer induces Tet1-mGluR5 promoter coupling, demethylation, and mGluR5 upregulation. Melatonin reverses Tet1-dependent mGluR5 promoter demethylation and associated mGluR5 expression and pain hypersensitivity via MT2 receptor. |
Intrathecal vector-mediated gene transfer, chromatin immunoprecipitation (Tet1-mGluR5 promoter), bisulfite sequencing (promoter methylation), intrathecal drug injection, behavioral pain testing, Western blot |
Journal of pineal research |
Medium |
28718992
|
| 2018 |
Patients' IgG antibodies against mGluR5 (primarily IgG1, ±IgG2/IgG3) cause a significant and specific decrease of cell-surface synaptic and extrasynaptic mGluR5 without altering PSD-95 levels, demonstrating pathogenic effects of anti-mGluR5 antibodies in encephalitis. |
Cell-based assays (antibody application to rat hippocampal neurons), immunohistochemistry (brain), IgG subclass determination, quantitative receptor cluster analysis |
Neurology |
Medium |
29703767
|
| 2018 |
mGluR5 hypofunction in schizophrenia postmortem DLPFC is characterized by decreased Gq/11 coupling, reduced mGluR5 association with PI3K and Homer, increased serine and tyrosine phosphorylation of mGluR5 (causing desensitization), and altered protein-protein interactions with RGS4, Norbin, Preso1, and Tamalin. Reduced mGluR5-GluN physical association provides a mechanistic basis for impaired reciprocal mGluR5-NMDA receptor facilitation in schizophrenia. |
Co-immunoprecipitation (mGluR5-Gq/11, mGluR5-PI3K, mGluR5-Homer, mGluR5-GluN, mGluR5-RGS4, mGluR5-Norbin, mGluR5-Preso1, mGluR5-Tamalin), phosphorylation assays, agonist-induced signaling assays in postmortem tissue |
Molecular psychiatry |
Medium |
30214040
|
| 2019 |
Homer1a induction enhances mGluR5 signaling, resulting in increased mTOR pathway phosphorylation and upregulation of synaptic AMPA receptor expression. The antidepressant action of sleep deprivation and Homer1a induction requires mGluR5 activation specifically in excitatory CaMK2a neurons and depends on enhanced AMPA receptor activity, translation, and trafficking. |
Cell-permeable TAT-Homer1a peptide injection, conditional knockout (mGluR5 in CaMK2a+ excitatory neurons), electrophysiology, Western blot (mTOR phosphorylation), AMPA receptor surface expression assays, behavioral antidepressant assays |
Neuron |
High |
31420117
|
| 2020 |
D1 dopamine receptor and mGluR5 form heteromeric receptor complexes on cell surfaces that couple to Gq proteins and produce synergistic PLC signaling and intracellular calcium release in response to either glutamate or dopamine. In dopamine-denervated striatum (Parkinson's disease model), D1-mGluR5 nanocomplexes are upregulated, leading to excessive ERK activation and dyskinesia. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, proximity ligation assay (nanoscale interaction), BRET/FRET (heteromer confirmation), calcium signaling assays, PLC assay, ERK phosphorylation assay in rodent PD models, behavioral dyskinesia testing |
The Journal of clinical investigation |
High |
32039920
|
| 2020 |
FMRP deficiency in astroglia cell-autonomously upregulates miR-128-3p, which suppresses developmental mGluR5 expression in astrocytes. Selective in vivo inhibition of miR-128-3p in FMRP-deficient astroglia rescues decreased astroglial mGluR5 function. This FMRP→miR-128-3p→mGluR5 pathway is selective to astroglia and operates at the posttranscriptional level. |
Astrocyte-selective FMRP conditional knockout in vivo, miR-128-3p inhibition in vivo, mGluR5 functional assays, transcriptome and proteome profiling, Western blot |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
High |
32958647
|
| 2022 |
Astrocytic mGluR5, which transiently reemerges in adult somatosensory cortex astrocytes after nerve injury, drives Ca2+ signals and upregulates synaptogenic molecules (Thrombospondin-1, Glypican-4, Hevin), causing excess excitatory synaptogenesis and persistent mechanical allodynia. Astrocyte-specific deletion of mGluR5 abolishes all these events, establishing a causal role for astrocytic mGluR5 in pain-associated synaptic plasticity. |
Astrocyte-specific conditional knockout of mGluR5, Ca2+ imaging, immunohistochemistry (synaptogenic molecules), synaptic density quantification, behavioral pain testing (mechanical allodynia) |
The Journal of experimental medicine |
High |
35319723
|
| 2022 |
Treatment with the mGluR5 silent allosteric modulator (SAM) BMS-984923 prevents Aβ oligomer-induced aberrant synaptic mGluR5 signaling while preserving physiological glutamate responses, restoring synaptic density in Alzheimer's disease mouse models. SAM treatment prevents synaptic localization of complement component C1Q and synaptic engulfment, and normalizes neuronal gene expression patterns. |
Oral SAM drug treatment in aged AD mouse models (APPswe/PS1ΔE9, App/hMapt knock-in), [18F]FPEB PET for brain mGluR5 occupancy, [18F]SynVesT-1 PET for synaptic density (SV2A), single-nuclei transcriptomics, C1Q immunohistochemistry, synaptic engulfment assay, behavioral testing |
Science translational medicine |
High |
35648810
|
| 2023 |
mGluR5 is dynamically organized in perisynaptic nanodomains positioned close to but excluded from the synapse. The C-terminal domain of mGluR5 critically controls perisynaptic confinement and prevents synaptic entry. Forced recruitment of mGluR5 to the synapse (via inducible interaction system) acutely increases synaptic calcium responses, demonstrating that perisynaptic localization shapes synaptic function. |
Live-cell super-resolution imaging (single-molecule localization microscopy), inducible chemogenetic interaction system to overcome synaptic exclusion, synaptic calcium imaging, C-terminal domain mutagenesis/truncation |
Nature communications |
High |
36646691
|
| 2024 |
The dimeric class C GPCR mGlu5 activates through an asymmetric, stepwise millisecond allosteric mechanism. Agonist binding induces dimeric ectodomain compaction amplified by cysteine-rich domain association, which loosely brings the 7TM domains into proximity establishing an asymmetric TM6-TM6 interface. Positive allosteric modulators stabilize the active inter-domain 7TM interface and an open ICL2 conformation, creating a pseudo-cavity (ICL2, ICL3, TM3, C-terminus) that facilitates G protein coordination. |
Markov state models (atomistic MD simulations), transition pathway generation, experimental signaling assays (validating simulation predictions) |
Nature communications |
Medium |
39209876
|