Abstract
The human ${\beta}$$_2$-adrenergic receptor (h${\beta}$$_2$AR) contains seven clusters of hydrophobic amino acids suggestive of membrane-spanning domains and its gene is intronless. The genomic gene encoding h${\beta}$$_2$AR has been isolated by polymerase chain reaction. To express h${\beta}$$_2$AR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a modified h${\beta}$$_2$AR gene was fused to signal peptide sequence of Killer toxin gene from Kluyveromyces lactics. This fusion gene was expressed under the galactose-inducible GAL10 promoter. The ligand binding experiments showed that the functional h${\beta}$$_2$AR was expressed at a concentration three times as much as that found in Hamster lung.
