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Group III presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) play a central role in regulating presynaptic activity through G-protein effects on ion channels and signal transducing enzymes. Like all Class C G-protein coupled receptors, mGluR8 has an extended intracellular C-terminal domain (CTD) presumed to allow for modulation of downstream signaling. To elucidate the function and modulation of mGluR8, yeast two-hybrid screens of an adult rat brain cDNA library were performed with the CTDs of mGluR8a and 8b (mGluR8-C) as baits. Different components of the sumoylation cascade (ube2a, sumo-1, Pias1, Pias gamma and Pias xbeta) and some other proteins were identified as mGluR8 interacting proteins. Binding assays using recombinant GST-fusion proteins confirmed that Pias1 interacts not only with mGluR8-C, but all group III mGluR CTDs. Pias1 binding to mGluR8-C required a region N-terminally to a consensus sumoylation motif and was not affected by arginine substitution of the conserved lysine K882 within this motif. Co-transfection of fluorescently tagged mGluR8a-C, sumo-1 and enzymes of the sumoylation cascade into HEK 293 cells showed that mGluR8a-C can be sumoylated in cells. Arginine substitution of lysine K882 within the consensus sumoylation motif, but not of other conserved lysines within the CTD, abolished in vivo sumoylation. The results are consistent with post-translational sumoylation providing a novel mechanism of group III mGluR regulation.