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. 2007 Nov 26;153(Suppl 1):S298–S309. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707508

Table 1. β-arrestin-dependent, G-protein-independent signalling by G-protein-coupled receptors.

GPCR β-arrestin-dependent activity   G-protein-independent? Sequestration Response Reference
B2AR ERK1/2 Yes Membrane/nucleus ?? Transcription Luttrell et al. (1999); Kobayashi et al. (2005); Shenoy et al. (2005)
  NF-kB ?? Cytosol Inhibition of inflammation Chandrasekar et al. (2004); Gao et al. (2004); Parameswaran et al. (2006)
A2AR Src Yes ?? ?? Pierce et al. (2000)
  ERK1/2 Yes     Wang et al. (2006)
AT1R ERK1/2 (β2) Yes Cytosol Inhibition of transcription Tohgo et al. (2002, 2003); Ahn et al. (2004); Szidonya et al. (2007)
  RhoA (β1) No Cytosol Stress fibre formation Barnes et al. (2005)
  Jnk ? Cytosol ? McDonald et al. (2000)
PAR-2 ERK1/2 Yes Cytosol/membrane Chemotaxis, inhibits proliferation DeFea et al. (2000a, 2000b); Ge et al. (2003, 2004); Kumar et al. (2007)
  Cofilin Yes Leading edge Filament severing, chemotaxis Zoudilova et al. (2007)
  LIMK Yes Membrane Filament stability Zoudilova et al. (2007)
  PI3K Yes Membrane/leading edge Chemotaxis, other functions? Wang et al. (2006, 2007)
PTHR ERK1/2 Yes ?? Bone remodelling? Ferrari et al. (2005); de Gortízar et al. (2006); Gesty-Palmer et al. (2006)
V2R ERK1/2 Yes Cytosol ?? Charest and Bouvier (2003); Togho et al. (2003); Charest et al. (2007)
CXCR4 p38MAPK ? ? Chemotaxis Sun et al. (2002)
D2R AkT Yes? Cytosol Motor control/mood Beaulieu et al. (2005)
MOR ERK1/2 (β2) ?? Cytosol ? Clark et al. (2004); Macey et al. (2006); Rozenfeld and Devi (2007)
mGLUR1 ERK1/2 Yes ? ↓Inward current Tabata et al. (2007)
GHS-R1a ERK1/2 No Nucleus Proliferation Camina et al. (2007)