Substance P (SP) is a peptide neurotransmitter that is involved in multiple responses in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems through a G-protein-coupled receptor. The primary structure of the rat SP receptor contains a number of conserved cysteine residues. To localize and identify the cysteine residues that participate in receptor binding, intact Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing the SP receptor were treated with various sulfhydryl reagents and the effect of these reagents on radioiodinated SP binding affinity and dissociation rate was determined. We used a series of amphiphilic maleimide derivatives in which the reactive maleimide group penetrates to different depths within the plane of membrane. Only the maleimide derivatives with intermediate chain lengths modified receptor binding properties, indicating that the reactive sulfhydryl group is located within a transmembrane domain of the receptor close (within 1.7 nm) to the extracellular border. Since peptide binding to a mutant receptor C199S, in which Cys-199 was replaced by a serine, was found to be insensitive to modulation by sulfhydryl reagents, this reactive sulfhydryl group is on Cys-199 of the receptor. Receptor occupancy by SP protects Cys-199 from modification and thus this residue is either located at or conformationally linked to the SP binding site.

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