Abstract
The internalisation of metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR1α) and its splice variant (mGluR1β), in response to agonist and phorbol esters (PMA), has been studied. Both mGluR1α and mGluR1β exhibit a similar rate of internalisation following PMA treatment, with a shift in their distribution from plasma membrane to endosome‐enriched membrane fractions. Agonist challenge however caused a rapid loss, within 5–10 min, of mGluR1β but not mGluR1α from the cell surface. These results show that the two forms of mGluR1 show different internalisation responses to agonist and suggest that the C‐terminal region of the molecule plays an important role in this phenomenon.