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Jaffé M, Bubis J. Use of 5′-[p-(Fluorosulfonyl)benzoyl] Guanosine as an Affinity Probe for the Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Site of Transducin. Protein J 2007; 26:125-33. [PMID: 17253127 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-006-9053-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Transducin (T) mediates vision in retinal rods by transmitting light signals detected by rhodopsin to a cGMP phosphodiesterase. The flow of information relies on a subunit association/dissociation cycle of T regulated by a guanine nucleotide exchange/hydrolysis reaction. 5'-[p-(Fluorosulfonyl)benzoyl] guanosine (FSBG) was synthesized and examined here as an affinity label for the guanine nucleotide binding site of T. Although the relative binding affinity of FSBG to T was much lower than for GTP and beta,gamma-imido-guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GMPPNP), the incorporation of FSBG to T inhibited its light-dependent [(3)H] GMPPNP binding activity in a concentration dependent manner. Additionally, GDP, GTP and GTP analogs hindered the binding of [(3)H] FSBG to T. These results demonstrated that FSBG could be used to specifically modify the active site of T. In addition, FSBG was not capable of dissociating T from T:photoactivated rhodopsin complexes, suggesting that in this case FSBG is acting as a GDP analog.
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- Matthias Jaffé
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle de Sartenejas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Kosoy A, Möller C, Perdomo D, Bubis J. Chemical modification of transducin with dansyl chloride hinders its binding to light-activated rhodopsin. BMB Rep 2004; 37:260-7. [PMID: 15469705 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2004.37.2.260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transducin (T), the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein in rod outer segments, serves as an intermediary between the receptor protein, rhodopsin, and the effector protein, cGMP phosphodiesterase. Labeling of T with dansyl chloride (DnsCl) inhibited its light-dependent guanine nucleotide binding activity. Conversely, DnsCl had no effect on the functionality of rhodopsin. Approximately 2-3 mol of DnsCl were incorporated per mole of T. Since fluoroaluminate was capable of activating DnsCl-modified T, this lysine-specific labeling compound did not affect the guanine nucleotide-binding pocket of T. However, the labeling of T with DnsCl hindered its binding to photoexcited rhodopsin, as shown by sedimentation experiments. Additionally, rhodopsin completely protected against the DnsCl inactivation of T. These results demonstrated the existence of functional lysines on T that are located in the proximity of the interaction site with the photoreceptor protein.
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- Ana Kosoy
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas 1081-A, Venezuela
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De Silva V, Woznichak MM, Burns KL, Grant KB, May SW. Selenium Redox Cycling in the Protective Effects of Organoselenides against Oxidant-Induced DNA Damage. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:2409-13. [PMID: 14982447 DOI: 10.1021/ja037294j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The biological role of selenium is a subject of intense current interest, and the antioxidant activity of selenoenzymes is now known to be dependent upon redox cycling of selenium within their active sites. Exogenously supplied or metabolically generated organoselenium compounds, capable of propagating a selenium redox cycle, might therefore supplement natural cellular defenses against the oxidizing agents generated during metabolism. We now report evidence that selenium redox cycling can enhance the protective effects of organoselenium compounds against oxidant-induced DNA damage. Phenylaminoethyl selenides were found to protect plasmid DNA from peroxynitrite-mediated damage by scavenging this powerful cellular oxidant and forming phenylaminoethyl selenoxides as the sole selenium-containing products. The redox properties of these organoselenoxide compounds were investigated, and the first redox potentials of selenoxides in the literature are reported here. Rate constants were determined for the reactions of the selenoxides with cellular reductants such as glutathione (GSH). These kinetic data were then used in a MatLab simulation, which showed the feasibility of selenium redox cycling by GSH in the presence of the cellular oxidant, peroxynitrite. Experiments were then carried out in which peroxynitrite-mediated plasmid DNA nick formation in the presence or absence of organoselenium compounds and GSH was monitored. The results demonstrate that GSH-mediated redox cycling of selenium enhances the protective effects of phenylaminoethyl selenides against peroxynitrite-induced DNA damage.
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- Veronica De Silva
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA
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Jaffé M, Bubis J. Affinity labeling of the guanine nucleotide binding site of transducin by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate. JOURNAL OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2002; 21:339-48. [PMID: 12206508 DOI: 10.1023/a:1019942318202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Transducin (T), a guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein composed of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-subunits, serves as an intermediary between rhodopsin and cGMP phosphodiesterase during signaling in the visual process. Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP), a reagent that has been used to modify enzymes that bind phosphorylated substrates, was probed here as an affinity label for T. PLP inhibited the guanine nucleotide binding activity of T in a concentration dependent manner, and was covalently incorporated into the protein in the presence of [3H]NaBH4. Approximately 1 mol of 3H was bound per mol of T. GTP and GTP analogs appreciably hindered the incorporation of 3H to T, suggesting that PLP specifically modified the protein active site. Interestingly, PLP modified both the alpha- and beta-subunits of T. Moreover, PLP in the presence of GDP behaved as a GTP analog, since this mixture was capable of dissociating T from T:photoactivated rhodopsin complexes.
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- Matthias Jaffé
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
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Granovsky AE, Artemyev NO. Assays of G protein/cGMP-phosphodiesterase interactions. Methods Enzymol 2002; 345:27-37. [PMID: 11665611 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(02)45004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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- Alexey E Granovsky
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Mittal R, Cerione RA, Erickson JW. Aluminum fluoride activation of bovine transducin induces two distinct conformational changes in the alpha subunit. Biochemistry 1994; 33:10178-84. [PMID: 7520280 DOI: 10.1021/bi00199a046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have used resonance energy transfer to read out the interactions of the alpha subunit of transducin (alpha T) with the transducin beta gamma subunit complex (beta gamma T) and to compare the rate of aluminum fluoride-induced alpha T activation, as reflected by the enhancement of the alpha T tryptophan fluorescence, with the rate for the dissociation of holotransducin into its component subunits. Specifically, a beta gamma T complex that was labeled with 5-(iodoacetamido)fluorescein (IAF-beta gamma T) served as a donor for resonance energy transfer and an alpha T-GDP species labeled with eosin 5-isothiocyanate (EITC-alpha TGDP) served as the acceptor. The quenching of IAF-beta gamma T fluorescence emission by the addition of the EITC-alpha TGDP species, due to resonance energy transfer between the IAF and EITC moieities, ranged from 10% to 15%. The association of the transducin subunits was rapid (i.e., within the time period of mixing) and dose-dependent, yielding an apparent Kd of approximately 150 nM for the alpha TGDP/beta gamma T interaction. Unexpectedly, we find that the dissociation of IAF-beta gamma T from an aluminum fluoride-activated alpha TGDP/IAF-beta gamma T complex occurs prior to the onset of the intrinsic fluorescence changes in alpha T that accompany activation of this subunit. Thus, there are at least two structural changes in alpha T that result from the occupation of the gamma-phosphate position in the nucleotide binding cleft of alpha T by aluminum fluoride.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R Mittal
- Department of Pharmacology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-6401
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Use of nonradiative decays of extrinsic fluorophores as structural and dynamical probes in protein environments: Fluorescence quenching. Biophys Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(93)e0097-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cunnick J, Twamley C, Udovichenko I, Gonzalez K, Takemoto DJ. Identification of a binding site on retinal transducin alpha for the phosphodiesterase inhibitory gamma subunit. Biochem J 1994; 297 ( Pt 1):87-91. [PMID: 8280114 PMCID: PMC1137794 DOI: 10.1042/bj2970087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Transducin alpha (T alpha) activates retinal rod cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) by interacting with and removing the inhibitory PDE gamma subunit. A T alpha-PDE gamma complex can be isolated in vitro, and our previous work [Morrison, Rider and Takemoto (1987) FEBS Lett. 222, 266-270; Morrison, Cunnick, Oppert and Takemoto (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 11671-11681] has identified a region of PDE gamma, residues 24-45, that binds to T alpha. The C-terminal region of PDE gamma is the site that interacts with PDE alpha/beta and inhibits catalytic function. The site on T alpha that binds to the PDE gamma 24-45 region has not been identified. Synthetic peptides (15-mers) which span the bovine T alpha sequence were tested for binding to purified recombinant PDE gamma using a solid-phase assay. The peptides were also tested for ability to activate a PDE complex. We have identified a region, residues 250-275 of T alpha, which shows a high affinity of PDE gamma and for the PDE gamma (24-45) binding peptide. The peptide did not bind to the C-terminal residues 50-87 of PDE gamma. Likewise, a region of T alpha, 1-25 did not exhibit high-affinity binding to PDE gamma or to the 24-45 PDE gamma peptide. Specific binding of the 250-275 peptide to PDE gamma was confirmed by its ability to compete with T alpha binding to PDE gamma, although a higher concentration was required (10x). The T alpha-(250-275) peptide activated a fully inhibited PDE alpha beta gamma 2 complex in a dose-dependent manner. These results suggest that a region on T alpha that recognizes the PDE gamma-binding site is found within residues 250-275 of T alpha.
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- J Cunnick
- Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506
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Pfister C, Bennett N, Bruckert F, Catty P, Clerc A, Pagès F, Deterre P. Interactions of a G-protein with its effector: transducin and cGMP phosphodiesterase in retinal rods. Cell Signal 1993; 5:235-41. [PMID: 7688544 DOI: 10.1016/0898-6568(93)90015-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- C Pfister
- Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Unité Associée 520 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble, France
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Kwon G, Remmers AE, Datta S, Neubig RR. Synthesis and characterization of fluorescently labeled bovine brain G protein subunits. Biochemistry 1993; 32:2401-8. [PMID: 8443180 DOI: 10.1021/bi00060a035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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G proteins play an important role in transmitting hormonal signals, and fluorescence techniques would be useful to study their cellular distribution and mechanisms. To prepare active fluorescent G protein Go/Gi or beta gamma subunits were reacted with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) to label the alpha (F-alpha) and gamma (F-gamma/beta) subunits or with (iodoacetamido)tetramethylrhodamine (TMR-IAA) to label the beta subunit (TMR-beta gamma). Unreacted dye was removed from the labeled proteins by ultrafiltration, followed by further purification using HPLC gel filtration. The molar ratios of dye to protein were 0.96 +/- 0.15, 0.59 +/- 0.07, and 1.37 +/- 0.09 for labeled alpha,beta, and gamma subunits, respectively. GTP gamma S binding to F-alpha and ADP-ribosylation by pertussis toxin of F-alpha were reduced to 63% and 78% of control, respectively. F-alpha was a heterogeneous population of alpha subunits. Active F-alpha containing less than one (0.7) label/subunit (F-alpha-Mono Q) was separated from unlabeled and multiply labeled F-alpha by Mono Q anion-exchange chromatography. F-alpha-Mono Q displayed reduced GTPase activity (turnover number was 46% of control), while GTP gamma S binding and ADP-ribosylation by pertussis toxin were only decreased to 78% and 82% of control, respectively. TMR-beta gamma and F-gamma/beta retain full function compared to native beta gamma, as measured by three methods: (1) TMR-beta gamma and F-gamma/beta are able to form heterotrimers with alpha o subunits, (2) TMR-beta gamma and F-gamma/beta support the ADP ribosylation of alpha o subunits by pertussis toxin, and (3) TMR-beta gamma and F-gamma/beta inhibit forskolin-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity. The fluorescent G protein subunits will be valuable tools to study G protein mechanisms in reconstituted membranes and intact cells.
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- G Kwon
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0626
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Erickson J, Cerione R. Regulation of the cGMP phosphodiesterase in bovine rod outer segments. Use of resonance energy transfer to distinguish between associative and dissociative activation mechanisms. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53697-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Ting TD, Ho YK. Molecular mechanism of GTP hydrolysis by bovine transducin: pre-steady-state kinetic analyses. Biochemistry 1991; 30:8996-9007. [PMID: 1654084 DOI: 10.1021/bi00101a013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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During the visual transduction process in rod photoreceptor cells, transducin (T) mediates the flow of information from photoexcited rhodopsin (R*) to the cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) via a cycle of GTP binding and hydrolysis. The pre-steady-state kinetics of GTP hydrolysis by T was studied by rapid quenching and filtration techniques in a reconstituted system containing purified R* and T. Kinetic analyses have shown that the turnover of T-bound GTP can be dissected into four partial reactions: (1) the R*-catalyzed GTP binding via a GDP/GTP exchange reaction, (2) the on-site hydrolysis of bound GTP, which leads to the formation of a T-GDP.Pi complex, (3) the release of the tightly bound inorganic phosphate (Pi) from T-GDP.Pi, and (4) the recycling of T-GDP. The R*-catalyzed GTP binding was estimated to occur in less than 1 s. In rapid acid quenching experiments, the rate of Pi formation due to GTP hydrolysis exhibited biphasic characteristics. An initial burst of Pi formation occurred between 1 and 4 s, which was followed by a slow steady-state rate. Increasing T concentration yielded a proportional increase in the burst and steady-state rate. The addition of Gpp(NH)p decreased both parameters. D2O decreased the rise of the initial burst with a kinetic isotope effect of approximately 1.7 but has no effect on the steady-state rate of Pi formation. These results indicate that the burst represents the fast hydrolysis of GTP at the binding site of T, which results in the accumulation of T-GDP.Pi complexes. The steady-state rate represents the slow release of Pi. This finding was further supported by rapid filtration experiments that monitored the formation of free Pi in solution. An initial lag time in the formation of free Pi was observed before a steady-state rate was established, indicating that the initially formed Pi was tightly bound to T. Finally, the release of GDP from T-GDP.Pi was not detected. This suggests that another cycle of GTP exchange catalyzed by R* should occur before the release of bound GDP. The rate of Pi release from T-GDP.Pi was measured under single-turnover conditions and had a half life of approximately 20 s, which was identical with the rate of deactivation of the PDE due to GTP hydrolysis by T.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- T D Ting
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612
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The visual transduction cascade of the retinal rod outer segment responds to light by decreasing membrane current. This ion channel is controlled by cyclic GMP which is, in turn, controlled by its synthesis and degradation by guanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase, respectively. When light bleaches rhodopsin there is an induced exchange of GTP for GDP bound to the alpha subunit of the retinal G-protein, transducin (T). The T alpha.GTP then removes the inhibitory constraint of a small inhibitory subunit (PDE gamma) on the retinal cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE). This results in activation of the PDE and in hydrolysis of cGMP. Recently both low and high affinity binding sites have been identified for PDE gamma on the PDE alpha/beta catalytic subunits. The discovery of two PDE gamma subunits, each with different binding affinities, suggests that a tightly regulated shut-off mechanism may be present.
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- D J Takemoto
- Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506
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Ruiz Gómez A, Fernández-Shaw C, Valdivieso F, Mayor F. Chemical modification of the glycine receptor with fluorescein isothiocyanate specifically affects the interaction of glycine with its binding site. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1989; 160:374-81. [PMID: 2540750 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(89)91666-5] [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: 01/01/2023]
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Fluorescein 5'-isothiocyanate (FITC) was used to modify lysine residues of the strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor. Pretreatment of rat spinal cord synaptic plasma membranes with FITC specifically affected the ability of glycine to displace [3H]strychnine binding. Glycine completely prevented the effect of FITC modification, suggesting the existence of lysine group(s) either at or in the vicinity of the agonist binding site. Labeling of purified glycine receptor with FITC indicates that such lysine residue(s) are located in the 48,000 daltons polypeptide. Chemical cleavage of the FITC-labeled 48-kilodalton subunit with N-chlorosuccinimide reveals two major labeled fragments of Mr 13.9 kilodalton and 8.5-kilodalton, respectively, the labeling of each being protected by glycine.
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- A Ruiz Gómez
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Ho YK, Hingorani VN, Navon SE, Fung BK. Transducin: a signaling switch regulated by guanine nucleotides. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1989; 30:171-202. [PMID: 2559829 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152830-0.50008-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Y K Ho
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612
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Hingorani VN, Ho YK. Fluorescent labeling of signal-transducing G-proteins. Pertussis toxin-catalyzed etheno-ADP ribosylation of transducin. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)77706-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Chemical modification of A1 adenosine receptors in rat brain membranes. Evidence for histidine in different domains of the ligand binding site. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)77866-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sitaramayya A, Casadevall C, Bennett N, Hakki SI. Contribution of the guanosinetriphosphatase activity of G-protein to termination of light-activated guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate hydrolysis in retinal rod outer segments. Biochemistry 1988; 27:4880-7. [PMID: 2844243 DOI: 10.1021/bi00413a044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Light activation of GTP binding to G-protein and its eventual hydrolysis are hypothesized to lead to activation and inactivation of cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) in vertebrate rod disk membranes (RDM). However, the reported GTPase rate of 3 per minute is too slow to account for the observed rapid inactivation of PDE. Our investigations on GTPase activity showed that RDM isolated in the dark have considerable dark GTPase activity, which is enhanced by light. In dark and light, the enzyme exhibits biphasic substrate dependence with two Km's for GTP of 2-3 and 40-80 microM at 22 degrees C and less than 1 and 10-25 microM at 37 degrees C. The Km's were not influenced by light. On the basis of G-protein content of the RDM, the Vmax's for the two activities at 37 degrees C in light are 4-5 and 20-30 GTPs hydrolyzed per minute per G-protein. RDM washed free of soluble and peripheral proteins do not have measurable GTPase activity in the dark or light. Purified G-protein alone also did not turn over GTP, apparently because bleached rhodopsin is required for it to bind GTP. Reconstitution of washed membranes with purified G-protein restores both the low- and high-Km GTPase activities. Inactivation of G-protein as measured by PDE turnoff and dissociation signal recovery is found to be faster at higher than lower [GTP], consistent with the observation that the higher GTPase activity associated with the higher Km alos resides in the G-protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A Sitaramayya
- Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia 19141
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Hingorani VN, Ho YK. A structural model for the alpha-subunit of transducin. Implications of its role as a molecular switch in the visual signal transduction mechanism. FEBS Lett 1987; 220:15-22. [PMID: 3038611 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)80867-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Transducin is a GTP-binding protein which mediates the light activation signal from photolyzed rhodopsin to cGMP phosphodiesterase and is pivotal in the visual excitation process. Biochemical studies suggest that the T alpha subunit of transducin is composed of three functional domains, one for rhodopsin/T beta gamma interaction, another for guanine nucleotide binding, and a third for the activation of phosphodiesterase. The integration of the primary sequence of T alpha along with secondary structure, hydropathy and folding topology predictions, and a comparison with homologous proteins have led to the construction of a three-dimensional model of the T alpha subunit. A molecular mechanism which underlies the coupling action of T alpha is suggested on the basis of this model.
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