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Hall G, Kelly S, Schaap P, Schilde C. Phylogeny-wide analysis of G-protein coupled receptors in social amoebas and implications for the evolution of multicellularity. OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE 2023; 2:134. [PMID: 37645274 PMCID: PMC10445921 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15250.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are seven-transmembrane proteins and constitute the largest group of receptors within eukaryotes. The presence of a large set of GPCRs in the unicellular Amoebozoa was surprising and is indicative of the largely undiscovered environmental sensing capabilities in this group. Evolutionary transitions from unicellular to multicellular lifestyles, like we see in social amoebas, have occurred several times independently in the Amoebozoa, and GPCRs may have been co-opted for new functions in cell-cell communication. Methods We have analysed a set of GPCRs from fully sequenced Amoebozoan genomes by Bayesian inference, compared their phylogenetic distribution and domain composition, and analysed their temporal and spatial expression patterns in five species of dictyostelids. Results We found evidence that most GPCRs are conserved deeply in the Amoebozoa and are probably performing roles in general cell functions and complex environmental sensing. All families of GPCRs (apart from the family 4 fungal pheromone receptors) are present in dictyostelids with family 5 being the largest and family 2 the one with the fewest members. For the first time, we identify the presence of family 1 rhodopsin-like GPCRs in dictyostelids. Some GPCRs have been amplified in the dictyostelids and in specific lineages thereof and through changes in expression patterns may have been repurposed for signalling in multicellular development. Discussion Our phylogenetic analysis suggests that GPCR families 1, 2 and 6 already diverged early in the Amoebozoa, whereas families 3 and 5 expanded later within the dictyostelids. The family 6 cAMP receptors that have experimentally supported roles in multicellular development in dictyostelids ( carA-carD; tasA/B) originated at the root of all dictyostelids and only have weakly associated homologs in Physarum polycephalum. Our analysis identified candidate GPCRs which have evolved in the dictyostelids and could have been co-opted for multicellular development.
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- Grant Hall
- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
- Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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González-Velasco Ó, De Las Rivas J, Lacal J. Proteomic and Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Early Developmentally Regulated Proteins in Dictyostelium Discoideum. Cells 2019; 8:cells8101187. [PMID: 31581556 PMCID: PMC6830349 DOI: 10.3390/cells8101187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cyclic AMP acts as a secondary messenger involving different cellular functions in eukaryotes. Here, proteomic and transcriptomic profiling has been combined to identify novel early developmentally regulated proteins in eukaryote cells. These proteomic and transcriptomic experiments were performed in Dictyostelium discoideum given the unique advantages that this organism offers as a eukaryotic model for cell motility and as a nonmammalian model of human disease. By comparing whole-cell proteome analysis of developed (cAMP-pulsed) wild-type AX2 cells and an independent transcriptomic analysis of developed wild-type AX4 cells, our results show that up to 70% of the identified proteins overlap in the two independent studies. Among them, we have found 26 proteins previously related to cAMP signaling and identified 110 novel proteins involved in calcium signaling, adhesion, actin cytoskeleton, the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, metabolism, and proteins that previously lacked any annotation. Our study validates previous findings, mostly for the canonical cAMP-pathway, and also generates further insight into the complexity of the transcriptomic changes during early development. This article also compares proteomic data between parental and cells lacking glkA, a GSK-3 kinase implicated in substrate adhesion and chemotaxis in Dictyostelium. This analysis reveals a set of proteins that show differences in expression in the two strains as well as overlapping protein level changes independent of GlkA.
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- Óscar González-Velasco
- Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group. Cancer Research Center (CIC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL/IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
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- Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group. Cancer Research Center (CIC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL/IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
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- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
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Hashimura H, Morimoto YV, Yasui M, Ueda M. Collective cell migration of Dictyostelium without cAMP oscillations at multicellular stages. Commun Biol 2019; 2:34. [PMID: 30701199 PMCID: PMC6345914 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0273-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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In Dictyostelium discoideum, a model organism for the study of collective cell migration, extracellular cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) acts as a diffusible chemical guidance cue for cell aggregation, which has been thought to be important in multicellular morphogenesis. Here we revealed that the dynamics of cAMP-mediated signaling showed a transition from propagating waves to steady state during cell development. Live-cell imaging of cytosolic cAMP levels revealed that their oscillation and propagation in cell populations were obvious for cell aggregation and mound formation stages, but they gradually disappeared when multicellular slugs started to migrate. A similar transition of signaling dynamics occurred with phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate signaling, which is upstream of the cAMP signal pathway. This transition was programmed with concomitant developmental progression. We propose a new model in which cAMP oscillation and propagation between cells, which are important at the unicellular stage, are unessential for collective cell migration at the multicellular stage.
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- Hidenori Hashimura
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Suita, Osaka, 565-0874 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Suita, Osaka, 565-0874 Japan
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Suita, Osaka, 565-0874 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Suita, Osaka, 565-0874 Japan
- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
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Mir H, Alex T, Rajawat J, Kadam A, Begum R. Response of Dictyostelium discoideum to UV-C and involvement of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase. Cell Prolif 2015; 48:363-74. [PMID: 25858552 DOI: 10.1111/cpr.12182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Radiation and chemical mutagens are direct DNA-damaging agents and ultraviolet (UV) radiation is frequently used in biological studies. Consequent to ozone depletion, UV-C could become a great challenge to living organisms on earth, in the near future. The present study has focused on the role of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) during UV-C-induced growth and developmental changes in Dictyostelium discoideum, a phylogenetically important unicellular eukaryote. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dictyostelium discoideum cells were exposed to different doses of UV-C and PARP activity, and effects of its inhibition were studied. Expression of developmentally regulated genes yakA, car1, aca, csA, regA, ctnA, ctnB, gp24, hspD and dsn were analysed using semiquantitative RT-PCR. RESULTS We report that the D. discoideum cells displayed PARP activation within 2 min of UV-C irradiation and there was increase in NO levels in a dose-dependent manner. UV-C-irradiated cells had impaired growth, delayed or blocked development and delayed germination compared to control cells. In our previous studies we have shown that inhibition of PARP recovered oxidative stress-induced changes in D. discoideum; however, intriguingly PARP inhibition did not correct all defects as effectively in UV-C-irradiated cells. This possibly was due to interplay with increased NO signalling. CONCLUSIONS Our results signify that UV-C and oxidative stress affected growth and development in D. discoideum by different mechanisms; these studies could provide major clues to complex mechanisms of growth and development in higher organisms.
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- H Mir
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390002, India
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Cao X, Yan J, Shu S, Brzostowski JA, Jin T. Arrestins function in cAR1 GPCR-mediated signaling and cAR1 internalization in the development of Dictyostelium discoideum. Mol Biol Cell 2014; 25:3210-21. [PMID: 25143405 PMCID: PMC4196870 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-03-0834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Evolutionarily conserved arrestin-like proteins are key components of the cAR1-mediated ERK2 activation that controls cAMP cell–cell signaling during Dictyostelium aggregation. They are also involved in ligand-induced cAR1 internalization, which is required for the switch of cAMP receptors during multicellular development. Oscillation of chemical signals is a common biological phenomenon, but its regulation is poorly understood. At the aggregation stage of Dictyostelium discoideum development, the chemoattractant cAMP is synthesized and released at 6-min intervals, directing cell migration. Although the G protein–coupled cAMP receptor cAR1 and ERK2 are both implicated in regulating the oscillation, the signaling circuit remains unknown. Here we report that D. discoideum arrestins regulate the frequency of cAMP oscillation and may link cAR1 signaling to oscillatory ERK2 activity. Cells lacking arrestins (adcB−C−) display cAMP oscillations during the aggregation stage that are twice as frequent as for wild- type cells. The adcB−C− cells also have a shorter period of transient ERK2 activity and precociously reactivate ERK2 in response to cAMP stimulation. We show that arrestin domain–containing protein C (AdcC) associates with ERK2 and that activation of cAR1 promotes the transient membrane recruitment of AdcC and interaction with cAR1, indicating that arrestins function in cAR1-controlled periodic ERK2 activation and oscillatory cAMP signaling in the aggregation stage of D. discoideum development. In addition, ligand-induced cAR1 internalization is compromised in adcB−C− cells, suggesting that arrestins are involved in elimination of high-affinity cAR1 receptors from cell surface after the aggregation stage of multicellular development.
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- Xiumei Cao
- Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China Chemotaxis Signal Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics Imaging Facility, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Chemotaxis Signal Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20852
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Loomis WF. Cell signaling during development of Dictyostelium. Dev Biol 2014; 391:1-16. [PMID: 24726820 PMCID: PMC4075484 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2014] [Revised: 03/31/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Continuous communication between cells is necessary for development of any multicellular organism and depends on the recognition of secreted signals. A wide range of molecules including proteins, peptides, amino acids, nucleic acids, steroids and polylketides are used as intercellular signals in plants and animals. They are also used for communication in the social ameba Dictyostelium discoideum when the solitary cells aggregate to form multicellular structures. Many of the signals are recognized by surface receptors that are seven-transmembrane proteins coupled to trimeric G proteins, which pass the signal on to components within the cytoplasm. Dictyostelium cells have to judge when sufficient cell density has been reached to warrant transition from growth to differentiation. They have to recognize when exogenous nutrients become limiting, and then synchronously initiate development. A few hours later they signal each other with pulses of cAMP that regulate gene expression as well as direct chemotactic aggregation. They then have to recognize kinship and only continue developing when they are surrounded by close kin. Thereafter, the cells diverge into two specialized cell types, prespore and prestalk cells, that continue to signal each other in complex ways to form well proportioned fruiting bodies. In this way they can proceed through the stages of a dependent sequence in an orderly manner without cells being left out or directed down the wrong path.
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- William F Loomis
- Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Lilly P, Klein P, Theibert A, Vaughan R, Pupillo M, Saxe K, Kimmel A, Devreotes PN. Receptor G-Protein Interactions in the Development ofDictyostelium. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1988.tb00022.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Davidson AJ, King JS, Insall RH. The use of streptavidin conjugates as immunoblot loading controls and mitochondrial markers for use with Dictyostelium discoideum. Biotechniques 2013; 55:39-41. [PMID: 23834384 DOI: 10.2144/000114054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The loading controls used for quantitative immunoblotting of mammalian proteins are not appropriate for use with Dictyostelium discoideum. Actin levels, for example, change greatly during Dictyostelium development. In addition, Dictyostelium-specific antibodies for other potential control proteins are not commercially available. Here we demonstrate the use of labeled streptavidin to detect biotinylated mitochondrial 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase α (MCCC1), providing a robust and convenient tool for quantitative normalization of Dictyostelium Western blots, as well as fluorescently labeling mitochondria for microscopy of fixed cells.
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Mamenko MV, Chizhmakov IV, Volkova TM, Verkhratsky A, Krishtal OA. Extracellular cAMP inhibits P2X receptors in rat sensory neurones through G protein-mediated mechanism. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2010; 199:199-204. [PMID: 20121714 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02088.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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AIM To identify the mechanisms of P2X(3) receptor inhibition by extracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurones. METHODS Whole-cell currents were measured in cultured DRG neurones using the combination of voltage and concentration clamp. RESULTS We have found that extracellular cAMP inhibits P2X(3)-mediated currents in a concentration- and use-dependent manner. The P2X(3) currents, activated by ATP applied every 4 min, were inhibited by 55% in the presence of 10 microm cAMP and by 81% in the presence of 30 microm cAMP. At 8 min interval between ATP applications the same concentration of cAMP did not alter the currents. Addition of 0.5 mm of guanosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) to intracellular solution blocked the inhibitory action of cAMP. The inhibitory effects of cAMP were not mimicked by extracellular application of 30 mum adenosine. CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we demonstrate, for the first time, that extracellular application of cAMP to rat sensory neurones inhibits P2X(3) receptors via a G protein-coupled mechanism in a use-dependent manner, thus indicating the neuronal expression of specific plasmalemmal cAMP receptor.
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- M V Mamenko
- Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine
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During random locomotion, human neutrophils and Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae repeatedly extend and retract cytoplasmic processes. During directed cell migration--chemotaxis--these pseudopodia form predominantly at the leading edge in response to the local accumulation of certain signalling molecules. Concurrent changes in actin and myosin enable the cell to move towards the stimulus. Recent studies are beginning to identify an intricate network of signalling molecules that mediate these processes, and how these molecules become localized in the cell is now becoming clear.
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- Peter J M Van Haastert
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Brock DA, Ehrenman K, Ammann R, Tang Y, Gomer RH. Two components of a secreted cell number-counting factor bind to cells and have opposing effects on cAMP signal transduction in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:52262-72. [PMID: 14557265 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309101200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A secreted 450-kDa complex of proteins called counting factor (CF) is part of a negative feedback loop that regulates the size of the groups formed by developing Dictyostelium cells. Two components of CF are countin and CF50. Both recombinant countin and recombinant CF50 decrease group size in Dictyostelium. countin- cells have a decreased cAMP-stimulated cAMP pulse, whereas recombinant countin potentiates the cAMP pulse. We find that CF50 cells have an increased cAMP pulse, whereas recombinant CF50 decreases the cAMP pulse, suggesting that countin and CF50 have opposite effects on cAMP signal transduction. In addition, countin and CF50 have opposite effects on cAMP-stimulated Erk2 activation. However, like recombinant countin, recombinant CF50 increases cell motility. We previously found that cells bind recombinant countin with a Hill coefficient of approximately 2, a KH of 60 pm, and approximately 53 sites/cell. We find here that cells also bind 125I-recombinant CF50, with a Hill coefficient of approximately 2, a KH of approximately 15 ng/ml (490 pm), and approximately 56 sites/cell. Countin and CF50 require each other's presence to affect group size, but the presence of countin is not necessary for CF50 to bind to cells, and CF50 is not necessary for countin to bind to cells. Our working hypothesis is that a signal transduction pathway activated by countin binding to cells modulates a signal transduction pathway activated by CF50 binding to cells and vice versa and that these two pathways can be distinguished by their effects on cAMP signal transduction.
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- Debra A Brock
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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Root PA, Prince A, Gundersen RE. Aggregation ofDictyostelium discoideum is dependent on myristoylation and membrane localization of the G protein ?-subunit, G?2. J Cell Biochem 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19990801)74:2<301::aid-jcb14>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mu X, Lee B, Louis JM, Kimmel AR. Sequence-specific protein interaction with a transcriptional enhancer involved in the autoregulated expression of cAMP receptor 1 in Dictyostelium. Development 1998; 125:3689-98. [PMID: 9716534 DOI: 10.1242/dev.125.18.3689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Major stages of Dictyostelium development are regulated by secreted, extracellular cAMP through activation of a serpentine receptor family. During early development, oscillations of extracellular cAMP mobilize cells for aggregation; later, continuous exposure to higher extracellular cAMP concentrations downregulates early gene expression and promotes cytodifferentiation and cell-specific gene expression. The cAMP receptor 1 gene CAR1 has two promoters that are differentially responsive to these extracellular cAMP stimuli. The early CAR1 promoter is induced by nM pulses of cAMP, which in turn are generated by CAR1-dependent activation of adenylyl cyclase (AC). Higher, non-fluctuating concentrations of cAMP will adapt this AC stimulus-response, repress the activated early promoter and induce the dormant late promoter. We now identify a critical element of the pulse-induced CAR1 promoter and a nuclear factor with sequence-specific interaction. Mutation of four nucleotides within the element prevents both in vitro protein binding and in vivo expression of an otherwise fully active early CAR1 promoter and multimerization of the wild-type, but not mutant, sequence will confer cAMP regulation to a quiescent heterologous promoter. These cis and trans elements, thus, constitute a part of the molecular response to the cAMP transmembrane signal cascade that regulates early development of Dictyostelium.
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- X Mu
- Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK (Bldg 6/B1-22) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Kim JY, Soede RD, Schaap P, Valkema R, Borleis JA, Van Haastert PJ, Devreotes PN, Hereld D. Phosphorylation of chemoattractant receptors is not essential for chemotaxis or termination of G-protein-mediated responses. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:27313-8. [PMID: 9341180 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.43.27313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In several G-protein-coupled signaling systems, ligand-induced receptor phosphorylation by specific kinases is suggested to lead to desensitization via mechanisms including receptor/G-protein uncoupling, receptor internalization, and receptor down-regulation. We report here that elimination of phosphorylation of a chemoattractant receptor of Dictyostelium, either by site-directed substitution of the serines or by truncation of the C-terminal cytoplasmic domain, completely prevented agonist-induced loss of ligand binding but did not impair the adaptation of several receptor-mediated responses including the activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases and actin polymerization. In addition, the phosphorylation-deficient receptors were capable of mediating chemotaxis, aggregation, and differentiation. We propose that for chemoattractant receptors agonist-induced phosphorylation regulates surface binding activity but other phosphorylation-independent mechanisms mediate response adaptation.
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- J Y Kim
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Milne JL, Caterina MJ, Devreotes PN. Random mutagenesis of the cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium. Evidence for multiple states of activation. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:2069-76. [PMID: 8999904 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.4.2069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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cAMP receptor 1 (cAR1) of Dictyostelium couples to the G protein G2 to mediate activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases, chemotaxis, and cell aggregation. Other cAR1-dependent events, including receptor phosphorylation and influx of extracellular Ca2+, do not require G proteins. To further characterize signal transduction through cAR1, we performed random mutagenesis of the third intracellular loop (24 amino acids), since the corresponding region of other seven helix receptors has been implicated in the coupling to G proteins. Mutant receptors were expressed in car1(-) cells and were characterized for G protein-dependent and -independent signal transduction. Our results demonstrate that cAR1 is remarkably tolerant to amino acid substitutions in the third intracellular loop. Of the 21 positions where amino acid substitutions were observed, one or more replacements were found that retained full biological function. However, certain alterations resulted in receptors with reduced ability to bind cAMP and/or transduce signals. There were specific signal transduction mutants that could undergo cAMP-dependent cAR1 phosphorylation but were impaired either in coupling to G proteins, in G protein-independent Ca2+ influx, or in both pathways. In addition, there were general activation mutants that failed to restore aggregation to car1(-) cells and displayed severe defects in all signal transduction events, including the most robust response, cAMP-dependent cAR1 phosphorylation. Certain of these mutant phenotypes were obtained in a complementary study, where the entire region of cAR1 from the third to the seventh transmembrane helices was randomly mutagenized. Considered together, these studies indicate that the activation cycle of cAR1 may involve a number of distinct receptor intermediates. A model of G protein-dependent and -independent signal transduction through cAR1 is discussed.
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- J L Milne
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Kim JY, Caterina MJ, Milne JL, Lin KC, Borleis JA, Devreotes PN. Random mutagenesis of the cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium. Mutant classes that cause discrete shifts in agonist affinity and lock the receptor in a novel activational intermediate. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:2060-8. [PMID: 8999903 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.4.2060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium transduces extracellular cAMP signals via G protein-dependent and G protein-independent mechanisms. While site-directed mutagenesis studies of G protein-coupled receptors have provided a host of information regarding the domains essential for various functions, many mechanistic and structural questions remain to be resolved. We therefore carried out polymerase chain reaction-mediated random mutagenesis over a large part of the cAR1 sequence (from TMIII through the proximal part of the cytoplasmic tail). We devised a rapid screen for loss-of-function mutations based on the essential role of cAR1 in the developmental program of Dictyostelium. Although there were an average of two amino acid substitutions per receptor, approximately 90% of the mutants were able to substitute for wild-type cAR1 when expressed in receptor null cells. About 2% were loss-of-function mutants that expressed wild-type levels of receptor protein. We used biochemical screens to select about 100 of these mutants and chose eight representative mutants for extensive characterization. These fell into distinct classes. One class had a conditional defect in cAMP binding that was reversed by high salt. Another large class had decreased affinity under all conditions. Curiously, the decreases were clustered into three discrete intervals. One of the most interesting class of mutants lost all capacity for signal transduction but was phosphorylated in response to agonist binding. This latter finding suggests that there are at least two activated states of cAR1 that can be recognized by different downstream effectors.
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- J Y Kim
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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- B M Sager
- Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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Earlier studies have shown that in Dictyostelium discoideum, a buoyant membrane fraction contained approximately 90% of the vacuolar proton pump (V-H(+)-ATPase) activity, leading to its designation acidosomes. It was proposed that acidosomes may be involved in endocytosis, specially in the acidification of endosomes. In this study we further investigated the putative function(s) of acidosomes. The findings suggest that acidosomes contain abundant receptors for cyclic AMP (CAR1) and that it may be the site for recycling of internalized receptors. Acidosomes also contain an abundance of Rab4 (Bush et al. 1994), a marker for early endosomes. By these criteria, we suggest that the acidosomes are analogous to early or recycling endosome present in mammalian cells. These findings suggest that the structure earlier defined biochemically, morphologically and immunologically as acidosomes may represent early and/or recycling endosomes in this protist.
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- H Padh
- Center for Biotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Milne JL, Wu L, Caterina MJ, Devreotes PN. Seven helix cAMP receptors stimulate Ca2+ entry in the absence of functional G proteins in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:5926-31. [PMID: 7534302 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.11.5926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Surface cAMP receptors (cARs) in Dictyostelium transmit a variety of signals across the plasma membrane. The best characterized cAR, cAR1, couples to the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) alpha-subunit G alpha 2 to mediate activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases and cell aggregation. cAR1 also elicits other cAMP-dependent responses including receptor phosphorylation, loss of ligand binding (LLB), and Ca2+ influx through a G alpha 2-independent pathway that may not involve G proteins. Here, we have expressed cAR1 and a related receptor, cAR3, in a g beta- strain (Lilly, P., Wu. L., Welker, D. L., and Devreotes, P. N. (1993) Genes & Dev. 7,986-995), which lacks G protein activity. Both cell lines failed to aggregate, a process requiring the G alpha 2 and G beta- subunits. In contrast, cAR1 phosphorylation in cAR1/g beta- cells showed a time course and cAMP dose dependence indistinguishable from those of cAR1/G beta+ controls. cAMP-induced LLB was also normal in the cAR1/g beta- cells. Finally, cAR1/g beta- cells and cAR3/g beta- cells showed a Ca2+ response with kinetics, agonist dependence, ion specificity, and sensitivity to depolarization agents that were like those of G beta+ controls, although they accumulated fewer Ca2+ ions per cAMP receptor than the control strains. Together, these results suggest that the G beta-subunit is not required for the activation or attenuation of cAR1 phosphorylation, LLB, or Ca2+ influx. It may, however, serve to amplify the Ca2+ response, possibly by modulating other intracellular Ca2+ signal transduction pathways.
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- J L Milne
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185
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Caterina MJ, Hereld D, Devreotes PN. Occupancy of the Dictyostelium cAMP receptor, cAR1, induces a reduction in affinity which depends upon COOH-terminal serine residues. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:4418-23. [PMID: 7876207 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.9.4418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Many G-protein-coupled receptors display a rapid decrease in ligand binding following pretreatment with agonist. cAR1, a cAMP receptor expressed early in the developmental program of Dictyostelium, mediates chemotaxis, activation of adenylyl cyclase, and gene expression changes that bring about the aggregation of 10(5) amoebae to form a multicellular structure. Occupancy of cAR1 by cAMP initiates multiple desensitization processes, one of which is an apparent reduction in binding sites. In transformed cells expressing cAR1 constitutively, Scatchard analyses revealed that this apparent loss of ligand binding is largely due to a significant reduction in the affinity of cAR1 for cAMP. A parallel increase in the dose dependence of cAR1-mediated cAMP uptake was observed. Consistent with these findings, proteolysis of intact cells and immunofluorescence suggested that cAR1 remains on the cell-surface following cAMP treatment. Finally, agonist-induced loss of ligand binding is impaired in cAR1 mutants lacking a cluster of cytoplasmic serine residues, which are targets of cAMP-induced phosphorylation.
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- M J Caterina
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Kim JY, Devreotes PN. Random chimeragenesis of G-protein-coupled receptors. Mapping the affinity of the cAMP chemoattractant receptors in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)61965-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Ali H, Richardson R, Tomhave E, DuBose R, Haribabu B, Snyderman R. Regulation of stably transfected platelet activating factor receptor in RBL-2H3 cells. Role of multiple G proteins and receptor phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31428-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Hereld D, Vaughan R, Kim J, Borleis J, Devreotes P. Localization of ligand-induced phosphorylation sites to serine clusters in the C-terminal domain of the Dictyostelium cAMP receptor, cAR1. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37479-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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de Boer AH, van Hunnik E, Korthout HA, Sedee NJ, Wang M. Affinity purification of GTPase proteins from oat root plasma membranes using biotinylated GTP. FEBS Lett 1994; 337:281-4. [PMID: 8293815 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)80209-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Biotinylated GTP was synthesized and it was demonstrated that this ligand was bi-functional: it competed with [3H]Gpp(NH)p for binding to membrane proteins and it bound to immobilized avidin. Peripheral plasma membrane proteins were solubilized in a low-salt wash, incubated with GTP-biotin and biotinylated proteins were coupled to an avidin column. Elution with excess biotin yielded 10 polypeptides as seen with a silver stained SDS-PAGE gel. Antisera raised against Ras, a small GTPase, strongly interacted with three proteins with MW of 38, 27 and 25 kDa and also with 6 other proteins. G alpha-common antibodies interacted with proteins of MW = 66 and 38 kDa. This method enables the rapid purification of GTP-binding proteins and opens the possibility to assign a role to specific GTPases in signal transduction pathways.
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- A H de Boer
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mutation of the third intracellular loop of the cAMP receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium yields mutants impaired in multiple signaling pathways. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42288-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Differences in phosphorylation of formylpeptide and C5a chemoattractant receptors correlate with differences in desensitization. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)80517-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Wang M, Sedee NJ, Heidekamp F, Snaar-Jagalska BE. Detection of GTP-binding proteins in barley aleurone protoplasts. FEBS Lett 1993; 329:245-8. [PMID: 8365465 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80230-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We report the existence of several families of GTP-binding proteins in barley aleurone protoplasts. Partial purified plasma membrane proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to a nitrocellulose filter and incubated with either antisera raised against a highly conserved animal G protein alpha subunit peptide/or Ras protein, or with [alpha-32P]GTP. Two sets of proteins of M(r) = 32-36 kDa and 22-24 kDa were strongly recognized by the antisera. Binding of [alpha-32P]GTP was detected on Western blots with proteins of M(r) = 22-24 kDa and 16 kDa. Binding was inhibited by 10(-7)-10(-6) M GTP gamma S, GTP or GDP; binding was not affected by 10(-6)-10(-5) M ATP gamma S or ADP. The kinetics, specificity and the effects of phytohormones in a [35S]GTP gamma S binding assay were also studied in isolated plasma membranes of barley aleurone protoplasts.
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- M Wang
- Center for Phytotechnology RUL/TNO, Department of Plant Molecular Biotechnology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Saxe CL, Ginsburg GT, Louis JM, Johnson R, Devreotes PN, Kimmel AR. CAR2, a prestalk cAMP receptor required for normal tip formation and late development of Dictyostelium discoideum. Genes Dev 1993; 7:262-72. [PMID: 8436297 DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.2.262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Extracellular cAMP serves as a primary signaling molecule to regulate the development of Dictyostelium discoideum. It is required for chemotaxis, aggregation, cytodifferentiation, and morphogenetic movement. The receptors for cAMP are members of the family of cell-surface receptors that are linked to G proteins and characterized by seven putative transmembrane domains. Previously, we have isolated the gene for the cAMP receptor subtype 1 (CAR1) from Dictyostelium and suggested that several genes related to CAR1 were present in the genome. Here, we describe a family of cAMP receptor genes of Dictyostelium and the isolation and function of the gene for the cAMP receptor subtype 2, CAR2. CAR2 is structurally similar to CAR1. Overall, their transmembrane and loop domains are approximately 75% identical in amino acid sequence; however, their carboxyl termini are quite dissimilar; CAR2 possesses homopolymeric runs of histidines and asparagines that are absent from the corresponding region in CAR1. Although CAR1 is maximally expressed during the early stages of development, CAR2 is expressed only after cells have aggregated and, then, preferentially in prestalk cells. Transgenic Dictyostelium that have had their wild-type CAR2 gene replaced by a defective copy using homologous recombination proceed through early development but are detained at the tight mound stage. CAR2 may be required for cAMP-directed sorting of prestalk cells during pattern formation within the aggregation mound. Furthermore, although prestalk genes are expressed normally in aggregates that lack CAR2, they exhibit an enhanced expression of prespore-specific mRNA. Previously, we had shown that there was a requirement for CAR1 during early development. The present results demonstrate that the multiple responses of Dictyostelium to cAMP are regulated by distinct cAMP receptors that are encoded by unique genes.
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- C L Saxe
- Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Hereld D, Devreotes PN. The cAMP receptor family of Dictyostelium. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1993; 137B:35-47. [PMID: 1336005 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62599-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- D Hereld
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Ludérus ME, Kesbeke F, Knetsch ML, Van Driel R, Reymond CD, Snaar-Jagalska BE. Ligand-independent reduction of cAMP receptors in Dictyostelium discoideum cells over-expressing a mutated ras gene. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 208:235-40. [PMID: 1325900 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17178.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Drug-resistance selection in Dictyostelium discoideum transformants resulted in up to eight-times-higher ras protein levels. Over-production of the wild-type ras protein did not lead to an aberrant phenotype. Increased levels of the mutated [G12T]ras protein, however, were correlated with severe deficiencies in aggregation and development. This aberrant phenotype is associated with reduced cAMP binding, due to a lower number of cell-surface receptors. We show that both RNA and cAMP-receptor-protein levels are reduced. These results indicate that ras in Dictyostelium discoideum seems to be involved in regulating cAMP-receptor-gene expression.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Dictyostelium/genetics
- Drug Resistance, Microbial/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, ras/genetics
- Gentamicins
- Mutagenesis
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Cyclic AMP/genetics
- Receptors, Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Transformation, Genetic
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- M E Ludérus
- Cell Biology & Genetics Unit, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Benovic J, Onorato J, Arriza J, Stone W, Lohse M, Jenkins N, Gilbert D, Copeland N, Caron M, Lefkowitz R. Cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 2. A new member of the receptor kinase family. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98568-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Johnson RL, Vaughan RA, Caterina MJ, Van Haastert PJ, Devreotes PN. Overexpression of the cAMP receptor 1 in growing Dictyostelium cells. Biochemistry 1991; 30:6982-6. [PMID: 1648967 DOI: 10.1021/bi00242a025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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cAR1, the cAMP receptor expressed normally during the early aggregation stage of the Dictyostelium developmental program, has been expressed during the growth stage, when only low amounts of endogenous receptors are present. Transformants expressing cAR1 have 7-40 times over growth stage and 3-5-fold over aggregation stage levels of endogenous receptors. The high amounts of cAR1 protein expressed constitutively throughout early development did not drastically disrupt the developmental program; the onset of aggregation was delayed by 1-3 h, and then subsequent stages proceeded normally. The affinity of the expressed cAR1 was similar to that of the endogenous receptors in aggregation stage cells when measured either in phosphate buffer (two affinity states with Kd's of approximately 30 and 300 nM) or in 3 M ammonium sulfate (one affinity state with a Kd of 2-3 nM). When expressed during growth, cAR1 did not appear to couple to its normal effectors since these cells failed to carry out chemotaxis or to elevate cGMP or cAMP levels when stimulated with cAMP. However, cAMP stimulated phosphorylation, and loss of ligand binding of cAR1 did occur. Like aggregation stage control cells, the cAR1 protein shifted in apparent molecular mass from 40 to 43 kDa and became highly phosphorylated when exposed to cAMP. In addition, the number of surface cAMP binding sites in cAR1 cells was reduced by over 80% during prolonged cAMP stimulation. These results define a useful system to express altered cAR1 proteins and examine their regulatory functions.
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- R L Johnson
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Schenk PW, Van Es S, Kesbeke F, Snaar-Jagalska BE. Involvement of cyclic AMP cell surface receptors and G-proteins in signal transduction during slug migration of Dictyostelium discoideum. Dev Biol 1991; 145:110-8. [PMID: 1850366 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(91)90217-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The presence of G-proteins, interacting with cAMP surface receptors, was investigated in vegetative cells, aggregation-competent cells, and migrating slugs of Dictyostelium discoideum. Our results indicate that G-proteins are present in all stages. In vegetative cells there is a limited number of cAMP receptors but no effect of GTP tau S on cAMP binding could be detected; in addition, no effect of cAMP on GTP tau S binding or GTPase activity was observed. In both aggregation-competent cells and slugs GTP tau S inhibits cAMP binding, while cAMP stimulates GTP tau S binding and high-affinity GTPase. Since the presence of G-proteins coupled to cAMP receptors could be demonstrated in slugs, the involvement of the effector enzymes adenylate cyclase and phospholipase C was investigated. The results show that adenylate cyclase activity is stimulated by GTP tau S in both stages and that in cells from migrating slugs the Ins(1,4,5)P3 production is increased upon stimulation with cAMP. The possible involvement of G-proteins in signal transduction during the slug stage of D. discoideum is discussed.
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- P W Schenk
- Cell Biology and Genetics Unit, Zoological Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Snaar-Jagalska BE, Van Es S, Kesbeke F, Van Haastert PJ. Activation of a pertussis-toxin-sensitive guanine-nucleotide-binding regulatory protein during desensitization of Dictyostelium discoideum cells to chemotactic signals. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 195:715-21. [PMID: 1847868 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15758.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The chemoattractant cAMP induces the activation of adenylate cyclase in Dictyostelium discoideum. Upon prolonged incubation with cAMP, cells become desensitized via two distinct processes: a decrease in the number of available cAMP-binding sites (down regulation) and modification of the receptor (presumably via phosphorylation) correlated with adaptation. These processes occur simultaneously, but differ in the cAMP dose dependency and reversibility. In this study we investigated the mechanism of adaptation; cells were incubated with a cAMP analog to induce desensitization mediated by adaptation. The cells were then washed, lysed and the interaction between cAMP, receptor, guanine-nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) and GTP was investigated. (1) cAMP receptors that are phosphorylated in vivo remain phosphorylated for at least 45 min after lysis. (2) Desensitization did not alter basal cAMP binding to the receptor nor the inhibitory effect of guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) on this binding. (3) The stimulatory effect of cAMP on GTP[S] binding was also unchanged, while basal GTP[S] binding and the kinetics of binding were only slightly different. (4) Basal high-affinity GTPase activity was not altered but cAMP stimulation was reduced from 43 +/- 7% in control lysates to 14 +/- 4% in lysates from desensitized cells. (5) cAMP stimulation of GTPase was decreased by pretreatment of cells with pertussis toxin from 43 +/- 7% to 17 +/- 8% but this was not further altered in lysates from desensitized pertussis-toxin-treated cells. These observations indicate that during desensitization the phosphorylated receptor can still interact with G proteins. Furthermore, desensitization did not affect cAMP stimulation of GTP[S] binding but strongly reduced cAMP stimulation of GTPase, suggesting that a G protein becomes activated. This G protein is pertussis toxin sensitive and may be the inhibitor G protein (Gi). This would imply that adenylate cyclase desensitizes because Gi becomes activated.
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Fontana DR, Price PL, Phillips JC. Cell-cell contact mediates cAMP secretion in Dictyostelium discoideum. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 1991; 12:54-62. [PMID: 1646695 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.1020120111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Cyclic adenosine 3':5' monophosphate (cAMP) and cell-cell contact regulate developmental gene expression in Dictyostelium discoideum. Developing D. discoideum amoebae synthesize and secrete cAMP following the binding of cAMP to their surface cAMP receptor, a response called cAMP signaling. We have demonstrated two responses of developing D. discoideum amoebae to cell-cell contact. Cell-cell contact elicits cAMP secretion and alters the amount of cAMP secreted in a subsequent cAMP signaling response. Depending upon experimental conditions, bacterial-amoebal contact and amoebal-amoebal contact can enhance or diminish the amount of cAMP secreted during a subsequent cAMP signaling response. We have hypothesized that cell-cell contact regulates D. discoideum development by altering cellular and extracellular levels of cAMP. To begin testing this hypothesis, these responses were further characterized. The two responses to cell-cell contact are independent, i.e., they can each occur in the absence of the other. The responses to cell-cell contact also have unique temperature dependences when compared to each other, cAMP signaling, and phagocytosis. This suggests that these four responses have unique steps in their transduction mechanisms. The secretion of cAMP in response to cell-cell contact appears to be a non-specific response; contact between D. discoideum amoebae and Enterobacter aerogenes, latex beads, or other amoebae elicits cAMP secretion. Despite the apparent similarities of the effects of bacterial-amoebal and amoebal-amoebal contact on the cAMP signaling response, this contact-induced response appears to be specific. Latex beads addition does not alter the magnitude of a subsequent cAMP signaling response.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D R Fontana
- Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455
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Saxe CL, Johnson RL, Devreotes PN, Kimmel AR. Expression of a cAMP receptor gene of Dictyostelium and evidence for a multigene family. Genes Dev 1991; 5:1-8. [PMID: 1989903 DOI: 10.1101/gad.5.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We have previously reported the cloning of cDNAs for a Dictyostelium cell-surface cAMP receptor that is a member of the family of G-protein-linked receptors. Here, we report the organization and the developmental expression of this cAMP receptor gene, designated CAR1. CAR1 is a single copy gene that contains two intervening sequences. CAR1 mRNA levels are low in growing cells, rise to peak expression at 5-10 hr of development when the cAMP signaling system is maximally active, and decrease as development proceeds. At 5 hr the predominant mRNA species is approximately 1.9 kb, by 10 hr the mRNA is heterogeneous with sizes of approximately 1.9-2.1 kb, but during culmination only the 2.1 kb mRNA is detected. The variety of mRNA sizes results from differences in 5'-untranslated regions. Studies using developmental mutants with aberrant cAMP-signaling patterns indicate that pulsatile action of cAMP promotes maximal expression of CAR1 during early development. Low stringency hybridization of CAR1 probes to genomic DNA detects additional, related sequences, suggesting that there are several genes that encode a family of structurally similar receptors. Multiple functions previously attributed to the cAMP receptor instead may be fulfilled by distinct receptor subtypes encoded by specific genes.
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- C L Saxe
- Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Van Houten JL, Cote BL, Zhang J, Baez J, Gagnon ML. Studies of the cyclic adenosine monophosphate chemoreceptor of Paramecium. J Membr Biol 1991; 119:15-24. [PMID: 1848904 DOI: 10.1007/bf01868536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A doublet of proteins (approximately 48,000 Mr) from the Paramecium cell body membrane fits several criteria for the external cAMP chemoreceptor. These criteria include: (i) selective elution from a cAMP affinity column, matching a specificity that could be predicted from the behavioral response and whole-cell binding; (ii) binding to wheat germ agglutinin indicating the presence of carbohydrate moieties indicating surface exposure; and (iii) selective inhibition of the intact cells' chemoresponse to cAMP by antibodies against the doublet. Additional evidence for the existence of a receptor, in general, comes from selective elimination of the cAMP chemoresponse by photoaffinity labeling of while cells with 8-N3-cAMP. The doublet proteins are not identical to the regulatory subunit of a cAMP-dependent protein kinase from Paramecium, the Dictyostelium cAMP chemoreceptor, or the 42-45 kDa range proteins related to the large surface glycoprotein in Paramecium. The doublet proteins are not readily separable and, as in Dictyostelium, may represent two different covalent modification states of the same protein. Amino acid analysis indicates that the proteins are similar, but does not distinguish between the possibilities of proteolysis and covalent modification. Once cloned, this doublet may prove to be only the fifth external, eukaryotic chemoreceptor to be identified.
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- J L Van Houten
- Department of Zoology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405
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Extracellular adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) serves multiple roles in Dictyostelium development, acting as a chemoattractant, a cell-cell signaling molecule, and an inducer of differentiation. The Dictyostelium G-protein alpha subunit G alpha 2 appears to be the major transducer linking the surface cAMP receptor to these intracellular responses. On stimulation of cells with cAMP, G alpha 2 is phosphorylated on one or more serine residues, resulting in an alteration of its electrophoretic mobility. Phosphorylation of G alpha 2 is triggered by increased occupancy of the surface cAMP receptor and is rapid and transient, coinciding with the time course of activation of physiological responses.
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- R E Gundersen
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Patton WF, Dhanak MR, Jacobson BS. Analysis of plasma membrane protein changes in Dictyostelium discoideum during concanavalin A induced receptor redistribution using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 1990; 11:79-85. [PMID: 2156691 DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150110116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The 127 major polypeptides obtained from the purified plasma membrane of Dictyostelium discoideum were examined using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and a microcomputer-based videodensitometer. Plasma membrane proteins were analyzed at four discrete stages of concanavalin A induced cell surface capping; (i) the cell surface in the absence of ligand (unbound), (ii) the surface immediately after ligand binding (bound), (iii) the cell surface after receptors had patched (patched) and (iv) the cell surface after receptors had capped (capped). Plasma membranes were obtained at various stages of capping by using a colloidal silica density perturbation technique which immediately immobilized the proteins, preserving their lateral distribution in the bilayer during the isolation. Proteins were characterized with respect to post-translational modification changes resulting from the capping process as well as changes in their association with the plasma membrane fraction. Posttranslational changes of plasma membrane proteins, such as phosphorylation, methylation and proteolytic cleavage, were not observed during the four stages of capping. Myosin heavy chain phosphorylation, however, decreased almost twofold during patching and capping. Actin, which is known to colocalize directly underneath capped receptors did not appear to be recruited to the cap from the cytoplasm.
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- W F Patton
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Benovic JL, DeBlasi A, Stone WC, Caron MG, Lefkowitz RJ. Beta-adrenergic receptor kinase: primary structure delineates a multigene family. Science 1989; 246:235-40. [PMID: 2552582 DOI: 10.1126/science.2552582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 342] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta-ARK), which specifically phosphorylates only the agonist-occupied form of the beta-adrenergic and closely related receptors, appears to be important in mediating rapid agonist-specific (homologous) desensitization. The structure of this enzyme was elucidated by isolating clones from a bovine brain complementary DNA library through the use of oligonucleotide probes derived from partial amino acid sequence. The beta-ARK cDNA codes for a protein of 689 amino acids (79.7 kilodaltons) with a protein kinase catalytic domain that bears greatest sequence similarity to protein kinase C and the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP)--dependent protein kinase. When this clone was inserted into a mammalian expression vector and transfected into COS-7 cells, a protein that specifically phosphorylated the agonist-occupied form of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor and phosphorylated, much more weakly, the light-bleached form of rhodopsin was expressed. RNA blot analysis revealed a messenger RNA of four kilobases with highest amounts in brain and spleen. Genomic DNA blot analysis also suggests that beta-ARK may be the first sequenced member of a multigene family of receptor kinases.
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- J L Benovic
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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The development of an organism requires extensive cell-cell communication; however, little is known about the signals transmitted among differentiating cells. Observations of Dictyostelium amoebae reveal that transmembrane signaling systems have been highly conserved in evolution. The signals that cause these cells to differentiate are processed by mechanisms similar to those that process sensory and hormonal stimuli in higher animals.
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Firtel RA, van Haastert PJ, Kimmel AR, Devreotes PN. G protein linked signal transduction pathways in development: dictyostelium as an experimental system. Cell 1989; 58:235-9. [PMID: 2546676 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90837-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- R A Firtel
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Kumagai A, Pupillo M, Gundersen R, Miake-Lye R, Devreotes PN, Firtel RA. Regulation and function of G alpha protein subunits in Dictyostelium. Cell 1989; 57:265-75. [PMID: 2539262 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90964-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We have examined the developmental regulation and function of two G alpha protein subunits, G alpha 1 and G alpha 2, from Dictyostelium. G alpha 1 is expressed in vegetative cells through aggregate stages while G alpha 2 is inducible by cAMP pulses and preferentially expressed in aggregation. Our results suggest that G alpha 2 encodes the G alpha protein subunit associated with the cAMP receptor and mediates all known receptor-activated intracellular signal transduction processes, including chemotaxis and gene regulation. G alpha 1 appears to function in both the cell cycle and development. Overexpression of G alpha 1 results in large, multinucleated cells that develop abnormally. The central role that these G alpha proteins play in signal transduction processes and in controlling Dictyostelium development is discussed.
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- A Kumagai
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Extracellular cAMP induces the intracellular synthesis and subsequent secretion of cAMP in Dictyostelium discoideum (relay). cAMP relay was strongly diminished in mutant HB3 which shows abnormal development by making very small fruiting bodies. Extracellular cAMP binds to receptors on the surface of mutant cells and induces the rapid activation of adenylate cyclase. Intracellular cAMP rises to a concentration as high as that in wild-type cells but only a very small amount of cAMP is secreted. cAMP secretion in wild-type cells starts immediately after cAMP production, and is proportional to the intracellular cAMP concentration. In the mutant cells cAMP secretion starts a few minutes after cAMP production; by that time most of the intracellular cAMP is already degraded by phosphodiesterase and little cAMP is available for secretion. We conclude that mutant HB3 has a defect in the mechanism by which Dictyostelium cells secrete cAMP.
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- F Kesbeke
- Zoological Laboratory, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Mann SK, Pinko C, Firtel RA. cAMP regulation of early gene expression in signal transduction mutants of Dictyostelium. Dev Biol 1988; 130:294-303. [PMID: 2846388 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(88)90435-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We have examined the regulation of three early developmentally regulated genes in Dictyostelium. Two of these genes (D2 and M3) are induced by pulses of cAMP and the other (K5) is repressed. Expression of these genes has been examined in a number of developmental mutants that are specifically blocked in various aspects of the signal transduction/cAMP relay system involved in aggregation and control of early development. The mutant strains include Synag mutants, which are blocked in receptor-mediated activation of adenylate cyclase and do not relay cAMP pulses; FrigidA mutants, which are blocked in receptor-mediated activation of both adenylate cyclase and the putative phosphoinositol bisphosphate (PIP2) turnover pathway and appear to be mutations in the gene encoding one of the G alpha protein subunits; and a StreamerF allele, which lacks cGMP-specific cGMP phosphodiesterase. From the analysis of the developmental expression of these genes under a variety of conditions in these mutant strains, we have drawn a number of conclusions concerning the modes of regulation of these genes. Full induction of D2 and M3 genes requires cAMP interaction with the cell surface receptor and an "oscillation" of the receptor between active and adapted forms. Induction of these genes does not require activation of the signal transduction pathway that leads to adenylate cyclase activation and cAMP relay, but does require activation of other receptor-mediated intracellular signal transduction pathways, possibly that involving PIP2 turnover. Likewise, repression of the K5 gene requires pulses of cAMP. Expression of this gene is insensitive to cAMP pulses in FrigidA mutants, suggesting that a signal transduction pathway is necessary for its repression. Results using the StreamerF mutant suggest that the rise in cGMP in response to cAMP/receptor interactions may not be directly related to control of the pulse-induced genes. In addition, we have examined the effect of caffeine, which M. Brenner and S.D. Thomas (1984, Dev. Biol., 101, 136-146) showed preferentially blocks the cAMP relay system by blocking receptor-mediated activation of adenylate cyclase. We show that in many of the mutants and in an axenic wild-type strain, caffeine causes the induction of pulse-induced gene expression to almost wild-type levels or in some cases to higher than wild-type levels. Our data suggest that caffeine works by activating some step in the signal transduction pathway that must lie downstream from both the receptor and at least one of the G proteins and thus has effects other than simply blocking the receptor-mediated cAMP relay system.
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- S K Mann
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Snaar-Jagalska BE, Kesbeke F, Pupillo M, Van Haastert PJ. Immunological detection of G-protein alpha-subunits in Dictyostelium discoideum. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 156:757-61. [PMID: 2847717 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80908-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Putative G-protein alpha-subunits in Dictyostelium discoideum were detected on western blots using the antiserum A-569, raised against a peptide whose sequence is found in alpha-subunits of all known GTP-binding signal transducing proteins. Two bands with a MW of 40 kDa and 52 kDa were specifically recognized by the common peptide antiserum; the staining of both bands was strongly reduced when the antiserum was preincubated with the peptide that was used for antibody production. D.discoideum mutant HC213 (fgd A) lacks staining of the 40 kDa band, while the 52 kDa band is still present. This mutant is severely defective in cAMP receptor-G-protein interaction. We concluded that the primitive eukaryote D.discoideum contains proteins which show functional and physical similarity with the alpha-subunits of vertebrate G-proteins.
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- B E Snaar-Jagalska
- Cell Biology and Genetics, Zoological Laboratory, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Vaughan RA, Devreotes PN. Ligand-induced phosphorylation of the cAMP receptor from Dictyostelium discoideum. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68253-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Klein PS, Sun TJ, Saxe CL, Kimmel AR, Johnson RL, Devreotes PN. A chemoattractant receptor controls development in Dictyostelium discoideum. Science 1988; 241:1467-72. [PMID: 3047871 DOI: 10.1126/science.3047871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 399] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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During the early stages of its developmental program, Dictyostelium discoideum expresses cell surface cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) receptors. It has been suggested that these receptors coordinate the aggregation of individual cells into a multicellular organism and regulate the expression of a large number of developmentally regulated genes. The complementary DNA (cDNA) for the cyclic AMP receptor has now been cloned from lambda gt-11 libraries by screening with specific antiserum. The 2-kilobase messenger RNA (mRNA) that encodes the receptor is undetectable in growing cells, rises to a maximum at 3 to 4 hours of development, and then declines. In vitro transcribed complementary RNA, when hybridized to cellular mRNA, specifically arrests in vitro translation of the receptor polypeptide. When the cDNA is expressed in Dictyostelium cells, the undifferentiated cells specifically bind cyclic AMP. Cell lines transformed with a vector that expresses complementary mRNA (antisense) do not express the cyclic AMP receptor protein. These cells fail to enter the aggregation stage of development during starvation, whereas control and wild-type cells aggregate and complete the developmental program within 24 hours. The phenotype of the antisense transformants suggests that the cyclic AMP receptor is essential for development. The deduced amino acid sequence of the receptor reveals a high percentage of hydrophobic residues grouped in seven domains, similar to the rhodopsins and other receptors believed to interact with G proteins. It shares amino acid sequence identity and is immunologically cross-reactive with bovine rhodopsin. A model is proposed in which the cyclic AMP receptor crosses the bilayer seven times with a serine-rich cytoplasmic carboxyl terminus, the proposed site of ligand-induced receptor phosphorylation.
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- P S Klein
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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