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Advances in population-scale genomic sequencing have greatly expanded the understanding of the inherited basis of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Reanalysis of these genomic datasets identified an unexpected risk factor for CVD, somatically acquired DNA mutations. In this review, we provide an overview of somatic mutations and their contributions to CVD. We focus on the most common and well-described manifestation, clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential. We also review the currently available data regarding how somatic mutations lead to tissue mosaicism in various forms of CVD, including atrial fibrillation and aortic aneurism associated with Marfan Syndrome. Finally, we highlight future research directions given current knowledge gaps and consider how technological advances will enhance the discovery of somatic mutations in CVD and management of patients with somatic mutations.
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- J. Brett Heimlich
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Zhi L, Kim P, Thompson BD, Pitsillides C, Bankovich AJ, Yun SH, Lin CP, Cyster JG, Wu MX. FTY720 blocks egress of T cells in part by abrogation of their adhesion on the lymph node sinus. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2011; 187:2244-51. [PMID: 21788441 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1100670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Egress of lymphocytes from lymphoid tissues is a complex process in which Gαi-mediated signals play a decisive role. We show here that although FTY720, an agonist of the sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P)(1) receptor, induces S1P(1) receptor internalization sufficiently in the presence or absence of Gαi2 or Gαi3, the drug blocks egress of wild-type (WT) and Gαi3-deficent T cells, but not Gαi2-deficient T cells, in both WT and Gαi2-deficient hosts. Intravital imaging of lymph nodes revealed that all three groups of T cells approached and engaged cortical sinusoids similarly in the presence or absence of FTY720. The cells also entered and departed the sinus at an almost identical frequency in the absence of the drug. However, after engagement of the sinus, most WT and Gαi3-deficient T cells retracted and migrated back into the parenchyma in FTY720-treated animals, due to a failure of the cells to establish adhesion on the sinus, whereas Gαi2-deficient T cells adhered firmly on the sinus, which prevented their retraction, facilitating their transmigration of the lymphatic endothelial barrier. These data confirm egress of Gαi2(-/-) T cells independent of S1P-mediated chemotaxis and failure of FTY720 to close lymphatic stromal channels and argue for the first time, to our knowledge, that FTY720 induces lymphopenia in part by impairing T cell adhesion to the sinus in a manner dependent on Gαi2.
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- Liang Zhi
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Jin YZ, Thompson BD, Zhou ZY, Fu Y, Birnbaumer L, Wu MX. Reciprocal function of Galphai2 and Galphai3 in graft-versus-host disease. Eur J Immunol 2008; 38:1988-98. [PMID: 18521956 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200737738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This study delineates specific functions of Galphai2 and Galphai3 in T cell mobilization during the development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and reveals reciprocal effects of these two G proteins on the onset and morbidity of the disease. A deletion of Galphai2 hampered trafficking of pathogenic T cells from secondary lymphoid tissues to inflammatory sites and sufficiently prevented GVHD. In contrast, a severer disease was induced in mice adoptively transferred with Galphai3-deficient T cells than those mice transferred with wild-type T cells. In agreement with this, pathogenic Galphai2(-/-) T cells displayed a defect in response to CXCL10, CXCL11, and CCL5, whereas lack of Galphai3 augmented T effector cell chemotaxis induced by CXCL10 and CXCL11 and resulted in their preference of homing to the liver and colon. Absence of either Galphai also abrogated sphingosince-1-phosphate (S1P)-mediated inhibition of T cell chemokinesis and facilitated T cell homing and expansion in the spleen and mesenteric lymph nodes at the early phase of GVHD development, which is another key determinant in the severity and early onset of the disease in the mice infused with Galphai3(-/-) T cells. These observations underscore interplay between Galphai2 and Galphai3 and potentially provide a novel strategy to prevent GVHD by blocking T cell homing at early stages and T effector cell trafficking at later time points.
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- Yong Zhu Jin
- Wellman Center of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Requirement of Galphai in thymic homing and early T cell development. Mol Immunol 2008; 45:3401-10. [PMID: 18501427 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2008] [Revised: 04/03/2008] [Accepted: 04/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Demonstration of thymic homing dependent on Galphai proteins is one of the keys to determine whether thymic entrance of blood-borne progenitors is a highly selective process. The present study provides compelling evidence of an indispensable role for Galphai proteins in this process. Absence of either Galphai2 or Galphai3 significantly abrogated thymic homing, with an effect of Galphai3 being greater than that of Galphai2. Pertussis toxin treatment that blocks both Galphai2 and Galphai3 almost completely blocked thymic seeding in the thymus. Null mutation of Galphai3 also hindered bone marrow cell development and thus reduced production of pre-thymic progenitors. In contrast, Galphai2 exhibited a more prominent role than Galphai3 in guidance of CD4-CD8--double negative (DN) 1 cell migration and early thymic differentiation. The Galphai-deficiency-induced defects might be compensated for in part via augmented function of thymic stromal cells so that a nearly normal output of mature T cells could be maintained in these Galphai-deficient mice. These studies underscore the importance of Galphai in regulating thymic homing and pre-thymic and early thymocyte differentiation.
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Thompson BD, Jin Y, Wu KH, Colvin RA, Luster AD, Birnbaumer L, Wu MX. Inhibition of G alpha i2 activation by G alpha i3 in CXCR3-mediated signaling. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:9547-9555. [PMID: 17289675 PMCID: PMC2366813 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610931200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) convey extracellular stimulation into dynamic intracellular action, leading to the regulation of cell migration and differentiation. T lymphocytes express G alpha(i2) and G alpha(i3), two members of the G alpha(i/o) protein family, but whether these two G alpha(i) proteins have distinguishable roles guiding T cell migration remains largely unknown because of a lack of member-specific inhibitors. This study details distinct G alpha(i2) and G alpha(i3) effects on chemokine receptor CXCR3-mediated signaling. Our data showed that G alpha(i2) was indispensable for T cell responses to three CXCR3 ligands, CXCL9, CXCL10, and CXCL11, as the lack of G alpha(i2) abolished CXCR3-stimulated migration and guanosine 5'-3-O-(thio)triphosphate (GTPgammaS) incorporation. In sharp contrast, T cells isolated from G alpha(i3) knock-out mice displayed a significant increase in both GTPgammaS incorporation and migration as compared with wild type T cells when stimulated with CXCR3 agonists. The increased GTPgammaS incorporation was blocked by G alpha(i3) protein in a dose-dependent manner. G alpha(i3)-mediated blockade of G alpha(i2) activation did not result from G alpha(i3) activation, but instead resulted from competition or steric hindrance of G alpha(i2) interaction with the CXCR3 receptor via the N terminus of the second intracellular loop. A mutation in this domain abrogated not only G alpha(i2) activation induced by a CXCR3 agonist but also the interaction of G alpha(i3) to the CXCR3 receptor. These findings reveal for the first time an interplay of G alpha(i) proteins in transmitting G protein-coupled receptor signals. This interplay has heretofore been masked by the use of pertussis toxin, a broad inhibitor of the G alpha(i/o) protein family.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Chemokine CXCL10
- Chemokine CXCL11
- Chemokine CXCL9
- Chemokines, CXC/metabolism
- Female
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunit, Gi2/antagonists & inhibitors
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunit, Gi2/deficiency
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunit, Gi2/metabolism
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunit, Gi2/physiology
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/deficiency
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/genetics
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/metabolism
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/physiology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, CXCR3
- Receptors, Chemokine/metabolism
- Receptors, Chemokine/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Brian D Thompson
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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- Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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- Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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- NIEHS, Transmembrane Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
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Twu C, Liu NQ, Popik W, Bukrinsky M, Sayre J, Roberts J, Rania S, Bramhandam V, Roos KP, MacLellan WR, Fiala M. Cardiomyocytes undergo apoptosis in human immunodeficiency virus cardiomyopathy through mitochondrion- and death receptor-controlled pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:14386-91. [PMID: 12379743 PMCID: PMC137893 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.212327899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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We investigated 18 AIDS hearts (5 with and 13 without cardiomyopathy) by using immunocytochemistry and computerized image analysis regarding the roles of HIV-1 proteins and tumor necrosis factor ligands in HIV cardiomyopathy (HIVCM). HIVCM and cardiomyocyte apoptosis were significantly related to each other and to the expression by inflammatory cells of gp120 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. In HIVCM heart, active caspase 9, a component of the mitochondrion-controlled apoptotic pathway, and the elements of the death receptor-mediated pathway, tumor necrosis factor-alpha and Fas ligand, were expressed strongly on macrophages and weakly on cardiomyocytes. HIVCM showed significantly greater macrophage infiltration and cardiomyocyte apoptosis rate compared with non-HIVCM. HIV-1 entered cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes by macropinocytosis but did not replicate. HIV-1- or gp120-induced apoptosis of rat myocytes through a mitochondrion-controlled pathway, which was inhibited by heparin, AOP-RANTES, or pertussis toxin, suggesting that cardiomyocyte apoptosis is induced by signaling through chemokine receptors. In conclusion, in patients with HIVCM, cardiomyocytes die through both mitochondrion- and death receptor-controlled apoptotic pathways.
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- Cheryl Twu
- Department of Medicine, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
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Su ZZ, Kang DC, Chen Y, Pekarskaya O, Chao W, Volsky DJ, Fisher PB. Identification and cloning of human astrocyte genes displaying elevated expression after infection with HIV-1 or exposure to HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein by rapid subtraction hybridization, RaSH. Oncogene 2002; 21:3592-602. [PMID: 12032861 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 269] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2001] [Revised: 02/15/2002] [Accepted: 02/21/2002] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Neurodegeneration and dementia are common complications of AIDS caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection of the central nervous system. HIV-1 target cells in the brain include microglia, infiltrating macrophages and astrocytes, but rarely neurons. Astrocytes play an important role in the maintenance of the synaptic micro-environment and in neuronal signal transmission. To investigate potential changes in cellular gene expression associated with HIV-1 infection of astrocytes, we employed an efficient and sensitive rapid subtraction hybridization approach, RaSH. Primary human astrocytes were isolated from abortus brain tissue and low-passage cells were infected with HIV-1. To identify genes that display both early and late expression modifications after HIV-1 infection and to avoid cloning genes displaying normal cell cycle fluctuations in astrocytes, RNAs were isolated and pooled from 6, 12, 24 h and 3 and 7 day uninfected and infected cells and used for RaSH. Temporal cDNA libraries were prepared from double-stranded cDNAs that were enzymatically digested into small fragments, ligated to adapters, PCR amplified, and hybridized by incubation of tester and driver PCR fragments. By subtracting temporal cDNAs derived from uninfected astrocytes from temporal cDNAs made from HIV-1 infected cells, genes displaying elevated expression in virus infected cells, termed astrocyte elevated genes (AEGs), were identified. Both known and novel AEGs, not reported in current DNA databases, are described that display early or late expression kinetics following HIV-1 infection or treatment with recombinant HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (gp120). For selected AEGs, expression of their protein products was also tested by Western blotting and found to display elevated expression following HIV-1 infection. The comparable pattern of regulation of the AEGs following HIV-1 infection or gp120 treatment suggest that HIV-1 exposure of astrocytes, even in the absence of productive infection, can induce changes in cellular gene expression.
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- Zao-Zhong Su
- Department of Pathology and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Berger M, Budhu S, Lu E, Li Y, Loike D, Silverstein SC, Loike JD. Different G
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‐coupled chemoattractant receptors signal qualitatively different functions in human neutrophils. J Leukoc Biol 2002. [DOI: 10.1189/jlb.71.5.798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Miles Berger
- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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Li Y, Loike JD, Ember JA, Cleary PP, Lu E, Budhu S, Cao L, Silverstein SC. The bacterial peptide N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe inhibits killing of Staphylococcus epidermidis by human neutrophils in fibrin gels. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 168:816-24. [PMID: 11777977 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.2.816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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To study human neutrophil (polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN)) migration and killing of bacteria in an environment similar to that found in inflamed tissues in vivo, we have used fibrin gels. Fibrin gels (1500 microm thick) containing Staphylococcus epidermidis were formed in Boyden-type chemotaxis chambers. PMN migrated < 300 microm into these gels in 6 h and did not kill S. epidermidis when the gels contained heat-inactivated serum, C5-deficient serum, a streptococcal peptidase specific for a fragment of cleaved C5 (C5a), or anti-C5aR IgG. In contrast, in gels containing normal human serum, PMN migrated approximately 1000 microm into the gels in 4 h and into the full thickness of the gels in 6 h, and killed 90% of S. epidermidis in 6 h. fMLP reduced PMN migration into fibrin gels and allowed S. epidermidis to increase by approximately 300% in 4 h, whereas leukotriene B(4) stimulated PMN to migrate the full thickness of the gels and to kill 80% of S. epidermidis in 4 h. We conclude that both complement opsonization and C5a-stimulated chemotaxis are required for PMN bacterial killing in fibrin gels, and that fMLP inhibits PMN bactericidal activity in fibrin gels. The latter finding is surprising and suggests that in the presence of fibrin fMLP promotes bacterial virulence.
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- Yongmei Li
- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Vorobiov D, Bera AK, Keren-Raifman T, Barzilai R, Dascal N. Coupling of the muscarinic m2 receptor to G protein-activated K(+) channels via Galpha(z) and a receptor-Galpha(z) fusion protein. Fusion between the receptor and Galpha(z) eliminates catalytic (collision) coupling. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:4166-70. [PMID: 10660578 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.6.4166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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G protein-activated K(+) channel (GIRK), which is activated by the G(betagamma) subunit of heterotrimeric G proteins, and muscarinic m2 receptor (m2R) were coexpressed in Xenopus oocytes. Acetylcholine evoked a K(+) current, I(ACh), via the endogenous pertussis toxin (PTX)-sensitive G(i/o) proteins. Activation of I(ACh) was accelerated by increasing the expression of m2R, suggesting a collision coupling mechanism in which one receptor catalytically activates several G proteins. Coexpression of the alpha subunit of the PTX-insensitive G protein G(z), Galpha(z), induced a slowly activating PTX-insensitive I(ACh), whose activation kinetics were also compatible with the collision coupling mechanism. When GIRK was coexpressed with an m2R x Galpha(z) fusion protein (tandem), in which the C terminus of m2R was tethered to the N terminus of Galpha(z), part of I(ACh) was still eliminated by PTX. Thus, the m2R of the tandem activates the tethered Galpha(z) but also the nontethered G(i/o) proteins. After PTX treatment, the speed of activation of the m2R x Galpha(z)-mediated response did not depend on the expression level of m2R x Galpha(z) and was faster than when m2R and Galpha(z) were coexpressed as separate proteins. These results demonstrate that fusing the receptor and the Galpha strengthens their coupling, support the collision-coupling mechanism between m2R and the G proteins, and suggest a noncatalytic (stoichiometric) coupling between the G protein and GIRK in this model system.
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- D Vorobiov
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Cismowski MJ, Takesono A, Ma C, Lizano JS, Xie X, Fuernkranz H, Lanier SM, Duzic E. Genetic screens in yeast to identify mammalian nonreceptor modulators of G-protein signaling. Nat Biotechnol 1999; 17:878-83. [PMID: 10471929 DOI: 10.1038/12867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We describe genetic screens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae designed to identify mammalian nonreceptor modulators of G-protein signaling pathways. Strains lacking a pheromone-responsive G-protein coupled receptor and expressing a mammalian-yeast Galpha hybrid protein were made conditional for growth upon either pheromone pathway activation (activator screen) or pheromone pathway inactivation (inhibitor screen). Mammalian cDNAs that conferred plasmid-dependent growth under restrictive conditions were identified. One of the cDNAs identified from the activator screen, a human Ras-related G protein that we term AGS1 (for activator of G-protein signaling), appears to function by facilitating guanosine triphosphate (GTP) exchange on the heterotrimeric Galpha. A cDNA product identified from the inhibitor screen encodes a previously identified regulator of G-protein signaling, human RGS5.
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- M J Cismowski
- Cadus Pharmaceutical Corporation, 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown 10591, NY, USA
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Fan GH, Zhao J, Wu YL, Lou LG, Zhang Z, Jing Q, Ma L, Pei G. N-Methyl-D-aspartate attenuates opioid receptor-mediated G protein activation and this process involves protein kinase C. Mol Pharmacol 1998; 53:684-90. [PMID: 9547359 DOI: 10.1124/mol.53.4.684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) on opioid receptor-mediated G protein activation were explored in neuroblastoma X glioma hybrid (NG108-15) cells. Treatment of the cells with NMDA resulted in a remarkable attenuation of [35S]guanosine-5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate binding stimulated by [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]-enkephalin (DPDPE), a delta-opioid receptor agonist. The effects of NMDA were dose and time dependent with an IC50 value of 5 nM and could be blocked by NMDA receptor antagonists. After NMDA treatment, the DPDPE dose-response curve shifted to the right (EC50 value increased approximately 7-fold, from 6 to 40 nM), and the maximal response induced by DPDPE was reduced by approximately 60%. The effects of NMDA were reversible, and the DPDPE response could recover within 60 min. The functional responses of delta-, mu-, and kappa-opioid receptors in primarily cultured neurons also were attenuated significantly by NMDA treatment. The inhibitory effects of NMDA on opioid receptor-mediated G protein activation could be blocked by coadministration of the protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors or by elimination of the extracellular Ca2+. Correspondingly, NMDA treatment of NG108 cells significantly elevated cellular PKC activity and stimulated Gialpha2 phosphorylation. Transient transfection into NG108-15 cells of the wild-type Gialpha2 and a mutated Gialpha2 (Ser144Ala) resulted in a 2-fold increase in DPDPE-stimulated G protein activation. The DPDPE responses were greatly inhibited by NMDA treatment in the wild-type Gialpha2-transfected cells but much less affected in the mutant Gialpha2-transfected cells. In summary, NMDA attenuates opioid receptor/G protein coupling, and this process requires activation of PKC.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Enkephalin, D-Penicillamine (2,5)-
- Enkephalins/pharmacology
- Enzyme Activation/drug effects
- GTP-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics
- GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Mice
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- N-Methylaspartate/pharmacology
- Neuroblastoma/enzymology
- Neuroblastoma/metabolism
- Neurons/metabolism
- Neurons/physiology
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Protein Kinase C/physiology
- Receptors, Opioid/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid/physiology
- Receptors, Opioid, delta/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, delta/physiology
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/physiology
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/physiology
- Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- G H Fan
- Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China
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Wickman K, Hedin KE, Perez‐Terzic CM, Krapivinsky GB, Stehno‐Bittel L, Velimirovic B, Clapham DE. Mechanisms of Transmembrane Signaling. Compr Physiol 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp140118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Okano T, Yamazaki K, Kasahara T, Fukada Y. Molecular cloning of heterotrimeric G-protein alpha-subunits in chicken pineal gland. J Mol Evol 1997; 44 Suppl 1:S91-7. [PMID: 9071017 DOI: 10.1007/pl00000057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The avian pinealocytes have an intrinsic circadian clock function that controls rhythmic synthesis of melatonin, and an environmental light signal can reset the phase of the clock. In addition to the photoendocrine function, the melatonin synthesis of the pinealocytes is regulated by neural signals from sympathetic nerves. Thus the avian pinealocytes show diagnostic characters which seem to represent an evolutionary transition from photosensory cells of lower vertebrates to the neuroendocrinal cells of mammals. To understand the evolutionary background of the regulatory mechanism for the melatonin synthesis in this organ, we screened the chicken pineal cDNA library to find alpha-subunits of heterotrimeric G-proteins involved in the photic and neural regulations. In addition to the transducin-like alpha-subunit (Gt alpha) supposed to mediate the photic pathway, we isolated cDNA clones encoding Gi2 alpha, Gi3 alpha, and Go1 alpha and its splicing variant Go2 alpha. The deduced amino acid sequence of each G alpha had a potential site for pertussis toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation. As it is known that adrenergic receptor-mediated inhibition of melatonin synthesis is blocked by pertussis toxin, the G-proteins identified in the present study are likely to contribute to this neuroendocrine function of the chicken pineal cells.
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- T Okano
- Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Migeon JC, Thomas SL, Nathanson NM. Differential coupling of m2 and m4 muscarinic receptors to inhibition of adenylyl cyclase by Gi alpha and G(o)alpha subunits. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:16070-4. [PMID: 7608168 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.27.16070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We compared the G-protein requirements for coupling of human and chicken m2 and m4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) to inhibition of adenylyl cyclase, using a luciferase reporter gene under the transcriptional control of a cAMP response element as a sensitive monitor of intracellular cAMP levels. Previously, we used this system to demonstrate that the chick m4 receptor preferentially coupled to Gi alpha-2 and G(o)alpha over Gi alpha-1 and Gi alpha-3. We found that both the chick and human m2 mAChRs can couple to Gi alpha-1, Gi alpha-2, Gi alpha-3, and G(o)alpha, while the human m4 mAChR preferentially couples to Gi alpha-2 and G(o)alpha. Both the G(o)1 and G(o)2 forms of the G(o)alpha subunit were effective in reconstituting coupling of the m2 and m4 mAChRs to inhibit adenylyl cyclase activity. The m2 and m4 mAChRs thus couple to inhibition of adenylyl cyclase by overlapping but different sets of G-protein alpha subunits.
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- J C Migeon
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7750, USA
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Kabouridis PS, Waters ST, Escobar S, Stanners J, Tsoukas CD. Expression of GTP-binding protein alpha subunits in human thymocytes. Mol Cell Biochem 1995; 144:45-51. [PMID: 7791744 DOI: 10.1007/bf00926739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In this report, we investigate G protein alpha subunit diversity in human thymocytes, utilizing common properties shared by these genes and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence analysis of PCR amplified gene portions, indicate the presence of members from all four G-protein families that have been described thus far. The alpha subunit genes identified are: G alpha i1-3 and G alpha z but not G alpha o from the Gi family, G alpha s from the Gs family, G alpha 11, G alpha q, and G alpha 16 from the Gq family, and G alpha 12 and G alpha 13 from the G12 family. Also in this report we present the nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences of the human G alpha 13 cloned from a thymocyte cDNA library. The sequence of the human G alpha 13 has not been previously reported. Comparison of this sequence with the reported murine G alpha 13 shows > 90% identity at the deduced amino acid sequence level. We conclude that thymocytes represent a useful experimental system for the study of G protein involvement in immune responses and lymphocyte development.
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- P S Kabouridis
- Department of Biology, San Diego State University, CA 92182, USA
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Tolkacheva T, McNamara P, Piekarz E, Courchesne W. Cloning of a Cryptococcus neoformans gene, GPA1, encoding a G-protein alpha-subunit homolog. Infect Immun 1994; 62:2849-56. [PMID: 8005675 PMCID: PMC302891 DOI: 10.1128/iai.62.7.2849-2856.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have isolated a gene, GPA1, from Cryptococcus neoformans by the PCR technique. DNA sequencing of the GPA1 clone suggested that it encodes a protein homologous to the G-protein alpha-subunit family. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of the GPA1-encoded protein revealed that it is about 45% identical to several mammalian Gi alpha subunits and 48% identical to the G alpha protein Gpa2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G alpha proteins are known to be involved in mating of other yeasts, such as S. cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Southern analysis demonstrated that GPA1 is present in a single copy within the Cryptococcus genome. Isolation of the cDNA for GPA1 confirmed that the gene contains six introns within the coding region. The GPA1 transcript was identified by Northern (RNA) analysis as a 1.6-kb RNA present in exponentially growing cells of both the alpha and a mating types. Moreover, the abundance of this transcript increased in cells shifted to starvation medium. Coincubation of alpha and a cells on starvation medium is required for mating of cryptococcal cells. Thus, our results are consistent with the involvement of C. neoformans GPA1 in mating.
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- T Tolkacheva
- Department of Microbiology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno 89557-0046
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Migeon J, Nathanson N. Differential regulation of cAMP-mediated gene transcription by m1 and m4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Preferential coupling of m4 receptors to Gi alpha-2. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)36949-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Terakita A, Hariyama T, Tsukahara Y, Katsukura Y, Tashiro H. Interaction of GTP-binding protein Gq with photoactivated rhodopsin in the photoreceptor membranes of crayfish. FEBS Lett 1993; 330:197-200. [PMID: 8365491 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80272-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Interaction of G-protein with photoactivated rhodopsin (Rh*) in crayfish photoreceptor membranes was investigated by immunoprecipitation using an antibody against rhodopsin. Two kinds of protein were co-precipitated with rhodopsin. One is an alpha subunit of class-q G-protein (42 kDa, CGq alpha) which showed light-induced, dose-dependent binding to rhodopsin, and the other is an actin-like protein (44 kDa) with light-independent binding. Most of the CGq alpha was available for binding to Rh* but was dissociated from Rh* in the presence of GTP gamma S. These findings demonstrate that, in the crayfish photoreceptor, a Gq class of G-protein is activated by Rh*.
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- A Terakita
- Institute of Biology, Faculty of Education, Oita University, Japan
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Knol JC, Weidemann W, Planta RJ, Vreugdenhil E, van Heerikhuizen H. Molecular cloning of G protein alpha subunits from the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis. FEBS Lett 1992; 314:215-9. [PMID: 1468550 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)81474-z] [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: 12/27/2022]
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The central nervous system of the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, contains many large, identified neurons which can be easily manipulated making it an advantageous model system to elucidate in vivo the architecture of neuronal signal transduction pathways. We have isolated three cDNA clones encoding G protein alpha subunits that are expressed in the Lymnaea CNS, i.e. G alpha o, G alpha s and G alpha i. The deduced proteins exhibit a very high degree of sequence identity to their vertebrate and invertebrate counterparts. The strong conservation of G protein alpha subunits suggests that functional insights into G protein-mediated signalling routes obtained through the experimental amenability of the Lymnaea CNS will have relevance for similar pathways in the mammalian brain.
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- J C Knol
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Rooted phylogenetic trees for a total of 34 genes encoding the stimulatory (s alpha), inhibitory (i alpha), transducin (t alpha), Gx (x alpha), Gz (z alpha), G11 (alpha 11), G12 (alpha 12), G13 (alpha 13), G16 (alpha 16), Gq (q alpha), and other (o alpha) G protein alpha subunits have been constructed. The analysis shows that the G12 (alpha 12 and alpha 13), Gq (alpha 11, alpha 16, and q alpha), and Gs (s alpha genes) groups form one cluster, and the Gx (x alpha and z alpha genes), G(i) (i alpha genes), Gt (t alpha 1 and t alpha 2), and G(o) (o alpha genes) groups form another cluster. During mammalian evolution, the rates of synonymous substitutions for these genes were estimated to be between 1.77 x 10(-9)/site/year and 5.63 x 10(-9)/site/year, whereas those of non-synonymous substitutions were between 0.008 x 10(-9)/site/year and 0.067 x 10(-9)/site/year. These evolutionary rates are similar to those for histone genes, suggesting equally important biological functions of the G protein alpha subunits.
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- S Yokoyama
- Department of Biology, Syracuse University, NY 13244
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Ali IU, Reinhold W, Salvador C, Aguanno S. Aberrant splicing of Gs alpha transcript in transformed human astroglial and glioblastoma cell lines. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:4263-7. [PMID: 1324476 PMCID: PMC334134 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.16.4263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Alpha subunits of G proteins, which play a vital role in signal transduction, display considerable structural and functional diversity. Point mutations in two forms of alpha subunits, Gs alpha and Gi2 alpha, impairing their GTPase activity, have been detected in endocrine disorders. We report here the presence of truncated Gs alpha transcripts in a human glioblastoma cell line, HS683, and in an SV40-transformed human astroglial cell line, SVG. These transcripts were detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of cDNAs from the cell lines. The truncated Gs alpha transcripts, with deletions in the central region of the molecule, seem to have originated due to aberrant splicing within exonic sequences, which did not conform to the consensus GT/AG splice signals. The presence of a smaller size protein of mol.wt. around 25,000 kd in the SVG and HS683 cell lines, detected by antibodies specific for the C-terminal region of the Gs alpha subunit, seems to be consistent with the presence of truncated Gs alpha transcripts in these cell lines. These aberrantly spliced transcripts, if translated, could synthesize potentially oncogenic Gs alpha subunits deficient in GTPase activity. Whether such molecules, with sometimes relatively large deletions, retain some aspects of their function and are biologically significant remains to be seen.
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- I U Ali
- Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Wilkie TM, Gilbert DJ, Olsen AS, Chen XN, Amatruda TT, Korenberg JR, Trask BJ, de Jong P, Reed RR, Simon MI. Evolution of the mammalian G protein alpha subunit multigene family. Nat Genet 1992; 1:85-91. [PMID: 1302014 DOI: 10.1038/ng0592-85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) transduce extracellular signals received by transmembrane receptors to effector proteins. The multigene family of G protein alpha subunits, which interact with receptors and effectors, exhibit a high level of sequence diversity. In mammals, 15 G alpha subunit genes can be grouped by sequence and functional similarities into four classes. We have determined the murine chromosomal locations of all 15 G alpha subunit genes using an interspecific backcross derived from crosses of C57BL/6J and Mus spretus mice. These data, in combination with mapping studies in humans, have provided insight into the events responsible for generating the genetic diversity found in the mammalian alpha subunit genes and a framework for elucidating the role of the G alpha subunits in disease.
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- T M Wilkie
- Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Five structural features in mRNAs have been found to contribute to the fidelity and efficiency of initiation by eukaryotic ribosomes. Scrutiny of vertebrate cDNA sequences in light of these criteria reveals a set of transcripts--encoding oncoproteins, growth factors, transcription factors, and other regulatory proteins--that seem designed to be translated poorly. Thus, throttling at the level of translation may be a critical component of gene regulation in vertebrates. An alternative interpretation is that some (perhaps many) cDNAs with encumbered 5' noncoding sequences represent mRNA precursors, which would imply extensive regulation at a posttranscriptional step that precedes translation.
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- M Kozak
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854
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- A M Feldman
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. 21205
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Chaffin KE, Perlmutter RM. A pertussis toxin-sensitive process controls thymocyte emigration. Eur J Immunol 1991; 21:2565-73. [PMID: 1655469 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830211038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Although it is well known that essentially all peripheral T cells are derived from bone marrow progenitors that mature in the thymus, the mechanism whereby thymocytes gain access to peripheral compartments is obscure. We have learned that this process is sensitive to pertussis toxin (PT). Transgenic lck-PT mice were generated which express the catalytic subunit of PT in all thymocytes. In a previous study we observed that T cell receptor signaling is unimpaired in these cells despite the virtual elimination of their Gi protein signal transduction elements through endogenous PT activity. Here we demonstrate that mature T lineage cells accumulate in lck-PT thymuses and fail to populate peripheral lymphoid organs. The accumulating cells closely resemble normal peripheral T lymphocytes with respect to cell surface phenotype and responses to allogeneic spleen cells, yet perform poorly in in vivo homing assays. This migratory defect does not result from deficient expression of common homing receptors or alterations in intracellular cAMP concentrations. Based on these results, we propose that a novel PT-sensitive signaling pathway, almost certainly involving a Gi protein, is required for thymocyte emigration.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/analysis
- CD3 Complex
- CD4-CD8 Ratio
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- GTP-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Pertussis Toxin
- Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/genetics
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/analysis
- Receptors, Lymphocyte Homing/analysis
- Receptors, Lymphocyte Homing/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/physiology
- Virulence Factors, Bordetella/genetics
- Virulence Factors, Bordetella/pharmacology
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- K E Chaffin
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Beaty CD, Martin TR, Wilson CB. Signal transduction in human alveolar macrophages: diminished chemotactic response to FMLP correlates with a diminished density of Gi proteins and FMLP receptors. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1991; 5:87-92. [PMID: 1908689 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb/5.1.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Alveolar macrophages (AM) migrate less well in response to chemotactic ligands than do monocytes and neutrophils. The response of monocytes and neutrophils to chemotactic ligands is mediated at least in part by pertussis toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide binding proteins (Gi proteins). Whether this is also true in AM is uncertain. We hypothesized that decreased chemotaxis by AM was due in part to diminished Gi protein and/or chemotactic receptor density in AM. G proteins are heterotrimers made up of alpha, beta, and gamma subunits; the predominant pertussis toxin-sensitive Gi proteins are those containing alpha i2 or alpha i3 subunits. Pertussis toxin pretreatment (0.5 microgram/ml) significantly reduced AM, monocyte, and neutrophil chemotaxis to N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine (FMLP) and human zymosan-activated serum (P less than 0.05). However, as previously noted, AM chemotaxis was much less than that observed in monocytes and neutrophils. Immunoblots using antibodies that are specific for alpha i2 and alpha i3 showed that AM contained approximately 3-fold less alpha i2 and approximately 10-fold less alpha i3 per microgram of plasma membrane protein than did monocytes or neutrophils. Similar results were obtained in immunoblots made using antibodies to common alpha subunit determinants and to the beta 36 subunit. A comparable approximately 4-fold reduction in density of receptors for [3H]FMLP was found in AM compared to neutrophils. The diminished density of Gi proteins and FMLP receptors was not due to a generally decreased density of plasma membrane proteins in AM, since the density of the membrane-associated tyrosine kinase hck was similar in AM, monocytes, and neutrophils.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- C D Beaty
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
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Amatruda TT, Steele DA, Slepak VZ, Simon MI. G alpha 16, a G protein alpha subunit specifically expressed in hematopoietic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:5587-91. [PMID: 1905813 PMCID: PMC51922 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.13.5587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Signal-transduction pathways mediated by guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) determine many of the responses of hematopoietic cells. A recently identified gene encoding a G protein alpha subunit, G alpha 16, is specifically expressed in human cells of the hematopoietic lineage. The G alpha 16 cDNA encodes a protein with predicted Mr of 43,500, which resembles the G q class of alpha subunits and does not include a pertussis toxin ADP-ribosylation site. In comparison with other G protein alpha subunits, the G alpha 16 predicted protein has distinctive amino acid sequences in the amino terminus, the region A guanine nucleotide-binding domain, and in the carboxyl-terminal third of the protein. Cell lines of myelomonocytic and T-cell phenotype express the G alpha 16 gene, but no expression is detectable in two B-cell lines or in nonhematopoietic cell lines. G alpha 16 gene expression is down-regulated in HL-60 cells induced to differentiate to neutrophils with dimethyl sulfoxide. Antisera generated from synthetic peptides that correspond to two regions of G alpha 16 specifically react with a protein of 42- to 43-kDa in bacterial strains that overexpress G alpha 16 and in HL-60 membranes. This protein is decreased in membranes from dimethyl sulfoxide-differentiated HL-60 cells and is not detectable in COS cell membranes. The restricted expression of this gene suggests that G alpha 16 regulates cell-type-specific signal-transduction pathways, which are not inhibited by pertussis toxin.
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- T T Amatruda
- Division of Biology 147-75, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Wieben ED, Vrabel AM, Holicky EL, Klisak I, Sparkes RS, Stanford DR. A U6 snRNA gene with an internal promoter is juxtaposed to an snRNP protein sequence within an intron of a human G protein gene. Nucleic Acids Res 1991; 19:2869-74. [PMID: 1829158 PMCID: PMC328244 DOI: 10.1093/nar/19.11.2869] [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: 12/29/2022] Open
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A complex locus on human chromosome 1 brings together sequences homologous to a G protein and two components of the RNA processing machinery of eukaryotic cells. Specifically, the seventh intron of the human Gi3 alpha gene contains a fusion of a partial snRNP E protein pseudogene to a variant U6 snRNA gene. The novel U6 sequence contains nine point mutations and a one nucleotide deletion relative to the major U6 genes from humans. Unlike all other vertebrate U6 genes characterized to date, the variant U6 gene is efficiently transcribed by RNA polymerase III even in the absence of all natural flanking sequences. The union of elements from the signal transduction pathway and the RNA processing machinery suggests the possibility of functional interplay.
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- E D Wieben
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905
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Sreedharan SP, Robichon A, Peterson KE, Goetzl EJ. Cloning and expression of the human vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:4986-90. [PMID: 1675791 PMCID: PMC51792 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.11.4986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is a neuroendocrine mediator found in the central and peripheral nervous system. Distinct subsets of neural, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and immune cells bear specific high-affinity receptors for VIP, which are associated with a guanine nucleotide-binding (G) protein capable of activating adenylate cyclase. A cDNA clone (GPRN1) encoding the human VIP receptor was identified in libraries prepared from the Nalm 6 line of leukemic pre-B lymphoblasts and the HT-29 line of colon carcinoma cells. The deduced 362-amino acid polypeptide sequence encoded by GPRN1 shares a seven-transmembrane-segment hydropathicity profile with other G protein-coupled receptors. Northern blot analyses identified a 2.7-kilobase transcript of the VIP receptor in Nalm 6 and HT-29 cells as well as in tissues from rat brain, colon, heart, lung, kidney, spleen, and small intestine. COS-6 cells transfected with GPRN1 bound 125I-labeled VIP specifically with a dissociation constant (Kd) of 2.5 nM. VIP--and less effectively secretin, peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI), and glucagon competitively displaced bound 125I-VIP from transfected COS-6 cells, with potencies in the order VIP greater than secretin = PHI much greater than glucagon. VIP stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in stably transfected Chinese hamster ovary K1 cells, inducing a 3-fold increase in the intracellular level of cAMP. When the antisense orientation of the VIP receptor clone was introduced into HT-29 cells, there was a 50% suppression of the specific binding of 125I-VIP and of the VIP-induced increase in cAMP level, relative to untransfected cells. The VIP receptor cloned exhibits less than or equal to 24% homology with other receptors in the same superfamily and thus represents a subset of G protein-coupled receptors for peptide ligands.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Line
- Cloning, Molecular/methods
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Gene Library
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Leukemia
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Poly A/genetics
- Poly A/isolation & purification
- Protein Conformation
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/isolation & purification
- Rats
- Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone/genetics
- Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone/isolation & purification
- Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone/metabolism
- Receptors, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide
- Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide/metabolism
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- S P Sreedharan
- Department of Medicine, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco 94143-0724
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Jiang M, Pandey S, Tran VT, Fong HK. Guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins in retinal pigment epithelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:3907-11. [PMID: 1902575 PMCID: PMC51562 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.9.3907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The expression of GTP-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells was analyzed by RNA blot hybridization and cDNA amplification. Both adult and fetal human RPE cells contain mRNA for multiple G protein alpha subunits (G alpha) including Gs alpha, Gi-1 alpha, Gi-2 alpha, Gi-3 alpha, and Gz alpha (or Gx alpha), where Gs and Gi are proteins that stimulate or inhibit adenylyl cyclase, respectively, and Gz is a protein that may mediate pertussis toxin-insensitive events. Other G alpha-related mRNA transcripts were detected in fetal RPE cells by low-stringency hybridization to Gi-2 alpha and Gs alpha protein-coding cDNA probes. The diversity of G proteins in RPE cells was further studied by cDNA amplification with reverse transcriptase and the polymerase chain reaction. This approach revealed that, besides the above mentioned members of the G alpha gene family, at least two other G alpha subunits are expressed in RPE cells. Human retinal cDNA clones that encode one of the additional G alpha subunits were isolated and characterized. The results indicate that this G alpha subunit belongs to a separate subfamily of G proteins that may be insensitive to inhibition by pertussis toxin.
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- M Jiang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033
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G proteins are heterotrimeric proteins involved in the transduction of a variety of external signals in all eukaryotic organisms. This review analyzes the molecular aspects of G protein structure and function. The cloning of cDNAs coding for a great variety of G protein subunits has allowed us to deduce the primary and secondary structure of the subunits. Emphasis is given to the dissection of the molecular regions of the G alpha subunits implicated in the binding and hydrolysis of GTP and in the interaction with the receptor, with the effector and with the beta gamma dimer. The localization of these regions in a two-dimensional model of the G alpha subunit is attempted to provide a more comprehensive view of the structure and function of G proteins.
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- J Olate
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago
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Price SR, Murtagh JJ, Tsuchiya M, Serventi IM, Van Meurs KP, Angus CW, Moss J, Vaughan M. Multiple forms of Go alpha mRNA: analysis of the 3'-untranslated regions. Biochemistry 1990; 29:5069-76. [PMID: 2116165 DOI: 10.1021/bi00473a011] [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: 12/30/2022]
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Go, a guanine nucleotide binding protein found predominantly in neural tissues, interacts in vitro with rhodopsin, muscarinic, and other receptors and has been implicated in the regulation of ion channels. Despite the virtual identity of reported cDNA sequences for the alpha subunit of Go (Go alpha), multiple molecular weight forms of mRNA have been identified in tissues from all species examined. To investigate the molecular basis for the size heterogeneity of Go alpha mRNAs, four cDNA clones were isolated from the same retinal lambda gt10 cDNA library that was used earlier to isolate lambda GO9, a clone encompassing the complete coding region of Go alpha. These clones were identified as Go alpha clones based on nucleotide sequence identity with lambda GO9 in the coding region; they diverge, however, from lambda GO9 in the 3'-untranslated region 28 nucleotides past the stop codon. An oligonucleotide probe complementary to a portion of the 3'-untranslated region of lambda GO9 that differs from the newly isolated clones hybridized with 3.0- and 4.0-kb mRNAs present in bovine brain and retina whereas a similar probe for the unique region of the new clones hybridized with a 4.0-kb mRNA in both tissues and with a 2.0-kb mRNA found predominantly in retina. A similar hybridization pattern was observed when brain poly(A+) RNA from other species was hybridized with the different 3'-untranslated region probes. It appears that differences in the 3'-untranslated regions could, in part, be the basis for the observed heterogeneity in Go alpha mRNAs.
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- S R Price
- Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Klinz FJ, Costa T. Cholera toxin differentially decreases membrane levels of alpha and beta subunits of G proteins in NG108-15 cells. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 188:567-76. [PMID: 2158884 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15437.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Treatment of NG108-15 neuroblastoma x glioma cells (24 h) with cholera toxin (0.1-10 micrograms/ml) resulted in a concentration-dependent reduction of the membrane levels of subunits of GTP-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), as determined by quantitative immunoblot procedures. The extent of reduction differed for different types of subunits: the levels of Go alpha and G beta 1 were reduced by 40-50%, whereas those of G alpha common immunoreactivity and Gi2 alpha were only reduced by 10-20% following treatment with 10 micrograms/ml cholera toxin. This effect of the toxin could not be mimicked by incubation with the resolved B oligomer of cholera toxin, nor by exposure of cells to agents able to raise the intracellular levels of cAMP. Basal adenylate cyclase was stimulated in a biphasic manner by cholera toxin, being stimulated at low concentrations (0.01-10 ng/ml) and then decreased at high (0.1-10 micrograms/ml) concentrations. Thus, the down regulation of G-protein subunits produced by cholera toxin requires its (ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity but does not result from a cAMP-mediated mechanism. The toxin-mediated decrease of Go alpha in the membrane was correlated with a diminution of opioid-receptor-mediated stimulation of high-affinity GTPase activity, suggesting that opioid receptors interact with Go in native membranes of NG108-15 cells. Northern-blot analysis of cytoplasmic RNA prepared from cells treated with cholera toxin showed that the levels of mRNA coding for G beta 1 did not change. Thus, the cholera-toxin-induced decrease of G-protein subunits may not result from an alteration in mRNA levels, but may involve a direct effect of the toxin on the process of insertion and/or clearance of G proteins into and/or from the membrane. These data indicate that cholera toxin, besides catalyzing the ADP-ribosylation of Gs and Gi/Go types of G proteins, can also reduce the steady state levels of Go alpha and G beta 1 subunits in the membrane and thus alter by an additional mechanism the function of inhibitory receptor systems.
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- F J Klinz
- Department of Neuropharmacology, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatric, Planegg-Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany
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Zamorski MA, Ferraro JC, Neubig RR. Subcellular distribution of alpha 2-adrenergic receptors, pertussis-toxin substrate and adenylate cyclase in human platelets. Biochem J 1990; 265:755-62. [PMID: 2154968 PMCID: PMC1133698 DOI: 10.1042/bj2650755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The subcellular distribution of the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor, pertussis-toxin substrates (Gi, the inhibitory G-protein) and adenylate cyclase was determined in human platelets. The alpha 2-adrenergic receptor and pertussis-toxin substrate activity codistribute with surface membranes identified by a novel fluorescent-lectin method. The platelet granule fractions did not contain detectable Gi. Only 2-4% of the total pertussis-toxin substrate activity appears in soluble fractions, and this amount was not increased upon addition of purified beta gamma units or after pretreatment of platelets with adrenaline. There is no evidence for compartmentation of the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor or Gi to account for the low-affinity component of agonist binding to the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor in human platelet membranes. Translocation of Gi from plasma membrane to platelet cytosol or granules does not appear to play any significant role in the mechanism of alpha 2-receptor-mediated platelet activation.
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- M A Zamorski
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor 48109-0626
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- A Altman
- Department of Immunology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California 92037
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Lipopolysaccharide response is linked to the GTP binding protein, Gi2, in the promonocytic cell line U937. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47053-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Deschenes RJ, Stimmel JB, Clarke S, Stock J, Broach JR. RAS2 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is methyl-esterified at its carboxyl terminus. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)80146-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Quan F, Wolfgang WJ, Forte MA. The Drosophila gene coding for the alpha subunit of a stimulatory G protein is preferentially expressed in the nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:4321-5. [PMID: 2498884 PMCID: PMC287444 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.11.4321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In mammals, the alpha subunit of the stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding protein (Gs alpha) functions to couple a variety of extracellular membrane receptors to adenylate cyclase. Activation of Gs alpha results in the stimulation of adenylate cyclase and an increase in the second messenger cAMP. A 1.7-kilobase cDNA has been identified and characterized from Drosophila that codes for a protein 71% identical to bovine Gs alpha. The similarity is most striking in the regions thought to be responsible for the interactions with receptors and effectors, suggesting that the basic components of this signal-transduction pathway have been conserved through evolution. RNA blot hybridization and DNA sequence analysis suggest that a single transcript, expressed predominantly in the head, is present in Drosophila. In situ hybridization studies indicate that the Drosophila Gs alpha transcript is localized primarily in the cells of the central nervous system and in the eyes.
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- F Quan
- Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201
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Asano T, Morishita R, Semba R, Itoh H, Kaziro Y, Kato K. Identification of lung major GTP-binding protein as Gi2 and its distribution in various rat tissues determined by immunoassay. Biochemistry 1989; 28:4749-54. [PMID: 2504280 DOI: 10.1021/bi00437a035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Antisera were raised in rabbits against the 40-kDa alpha subunit of bovine lung GTP-binding protein, which were identified as the alpha subunit of Gi2 (Gi2 alpha) by the analysis of the partial amino acid sequence. Antibodies were purified with a Gi2 alpha-coupled Sepharose column and then were passed through a Gi1 alpha-coupled Sepharose column to remove antibodies reactive also with 41-kDa alpha. Purified antibodies reacted with Gi2 alpha, but not with Gi1 alpha, Gi3 alpha, or Go alpha in an immunoblot assay. A sensitive enzyme immunoassay method for the quantification of Gi2 alpha was developed by using these purified antibodies. The assay system consisted of polystyrene balls with immobilized antibody F(ab')2 fragments and the same antibody Fab' fragments labeled with beta-D-galactosidase from Escherichia coli. The minimal detection limit of the assay was 1 fmol, or 40 pg. Samples from various tissues were solubilized with 2% sodium cholate and 1 M NaCl, and the concentrations of Gi2 alpha were determined. Gi2 alpha was detected in all the tissues examined in the rat. The highest concentration was found in platelets and leukocytes when the data were expressed as picomoles per milligram of protein. The spleen, lung, and cerebral cortex contained relatively high levels of Gi2 alpha. In the bovine brain, Gi2 alpha was distributed almost uniformly among the various regions. The concentrations of Gi2 alpha were constant in the rat brain throughout ontogenic development, in contrast with those of Go alpha which were markedly increased with age.
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- T Asano
- Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi, Japan
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Lang JC, Costa T. Distribution of the alpha-subunit of the guanine nucleotide-binding protein Gi2 and its comparison to G alpha o. JOURNAL OF RECEPTOR RESEARCH 1989; 9:313-29. [PMID: 2512386 DOI: 10.3109/10799898909066061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Site specific antisera against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the sequence 3-17 of G alpha 12 have been raised and the specificity examined using purified homogeneous Go, Gi2 and Gi containing a 41 kDa alpha-subunit. The distribution of G alpha i2 was investigated in plasma membranes from different tissues and cells and compared to the distribution of G alpha o and other pertussis toxin sensitive G alpha. Considerable amounts of G alpha i2 were found in endocrine tissue especially in membranes from the adrenal and thyroid, in leucocytes and platelets where it constitutes the major, if not only, pertussis toxin-sensitive G alpha, as well as in some cell lines (C6, NG 108-15, S49 cyc-); erythrocytes contained a 41 kDa G alpha i which was different from G alpha i2. G alpha o was present abundantly in nervous tissue, adrenal medulla and cortex but also found in low amounts in other membranes except for lung, liver and blood cells. Subcellular fractionation of cardiac ventricular muscle demonstrated the presence of G alpha o and low amounts of G alpha i2 in sarcolemma, but only 41kDa G alpha i was present in sarcoplasmic reticulum. The importance of the distinct distribution in terms of signal transduction is discussed.
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- J C Lang
- Abt. Neuropharmakologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Martinsried, FRG
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Yatani A, Mattera R, Codina J, Graf R, Okabe K, Padrell E, Iyengar R, Brown AM, Birnbaumer L. The G protein-gated atrial K+ channel is stimulated by three distinct Gi alpha-subunits. Nature 1988; 336:680-2. [PMID: 3143915 DOI: 10.1038/336680a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The guanine nucleotide-binding protein, Gi, which inhibits adenylyl cyclase, has recently been shown to have three subtypes of the alpha-subunit, termed Gi alpha-1, Gi alpha-2 and Gi alpha-3. They share 87-94% amino-acid sequence homology and so are difficult to separate from one another. Among other functions, purified preparations activate K+ channels but there is confusion over which of the subtypes activates the muscarinic K+ channels of the atrial muscle of the heart: Gi alpha-3, also termed Gk, has been shown to activate this channel but it is not clear whether Gi alpha-1 does or does not. To clarify this problem, we expressed the subtypes separately in Escherichia coli to eliminate contamination by other subtypes and tested the recombinant alpha- chains on atrial muscarinic K+ channels. Although we anticipated that only Gi alpha-3 would have Gk activity, to our surprise all three recombinant subtypes were active, from which we deduce that the Gi subtypes are multifunctional.
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- A Yatani
- Department of Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Trepel JB, Moyer JD, Heikkila R, Sausville EA. Modulation of bombesin-induced phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis in a small-cell lung-cancer cell line. Biochem J 1988; 255:403-10. [PMID: 2849413 PMCID: PMC1135242 DOI: 10.1042/bj2550403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Bombesin is an amphibian tetradecapeptide whose mammalian homologue, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP), is produced by many small-cell lung-cancer (SCLC) cells, and which can function in an autocrine growth-promoting manner in SCLC. Studies reported here show that [Tyr4]bombesin and its congeners increase inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate within seconds in NCI-H345, a SCLC cell line that constitutively produces GRP. After 30 min in the presence of 0.01 M-Li+ and [Tyr4]bombesin, there is marked accumulation of inositol monophosphates and inositol tetrakisphosphate. Pretreatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) for 20 min inhibited the ability of [Tyr4]bombesin to induce phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) turnover and to increase intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i). Pretreatment with PMA for 48 h attenuated the ability of subsequently added PMA to decrease the response to [Tyr4]bombesin. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin (PT; 1 microgram/ml for 18-24 h) decreased by less than 30% [Tyr4]bombesin-induced increases in [Ca2+]i and PtdIns metabolites. However, interpretation of this result is complicated by the inability of PT to ADP-ribosylate completely its substrates in intact NCI-H345 cells. In contrast, pretreatment with cholera toxin (1 microgram/ml for 18-24 h) lowered basal [Ca2+]i and basal inositol phosphate concentrations, attenuated the response of NCI-H345 to subsequently added [Tyr4]bombesin, and was not mimicked by treatments that increase cellular cyclic AMP. These data demonstrate the activation of phospholipase C in SCLC by bombesin congeners. In addition, the results suggest a regulatory role for protein kinase C, a cholera-toxin substrate, and perhaps a pertussis-toxin substrate in the response of SCLC to bombesin.
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- J B Trepel
- National Cancer Institute--Navy Medical Oncology Branch, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Blatt C, Eversole-Cire P, Cohn VH, Zollman S, Fournier RE, Mohandas LT, Nesbitt M, Lugo T, Jones DT, Reed RR. Chromosomal localization of genes encoding guanine nucleotide-binding protein subunits in mouse and human. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:7642-6. [PMID: 2902634 PMCID: PMC282248 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.20.7642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A variety of genes have been identified that specify the synthesis of the components of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins). Eight different guanine nucleotide-binding alpha-subunit proteins, two different beta subunits, and one gamma subunit have been described. Hybridization of cDNA clones with DNA from human-mouse somatic cell hybrids was used to assign many of these genes to human chromosomes. The retinal-specific transducin subunit genes GNAT1 and GNAT2 were on chromosomes 3 and 1; GNAI1, GNAI2, and GNAI3 were assigned to chromosomes 7, 3, and 1, respectively; GNAZ and GNAS were found on chromosomes 22 and 20. The beta subunits were also assigned--GNB1 to chromosome 1 and GNB2 to chromosome 7. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms were used to map the homologues of some of these genes in the mouse. GNAT1 and GNAI2 were found to map adjacent to each other on mouse chromosome 9 and GNAT2 was mapped on chromosome 17. The mouse GNB1 gene was assigned to chromosome 19. These mapping assignments will be useful in defining the extent of the G alpha gene family and may help in attempts to correlate specific genetic diseases with genes corresponding to G proteins.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 20
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
- DNA/genetics
- GTP-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells
- Mice
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
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- C Blatt
- Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel
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Milligan G. Techniques used in the identification and analysis of function of pertussis toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide binding proteins. Biochem J 1988; 255:1-13. [PMID: 2848502 PMCID: PMC1135183 DOI: 10.1042/bj2550001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- G Milligan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K
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Leader length and secondary structure modulate mRNA function under conditions of stress. Mol Cell Biol 1988. [PMID: 3405216 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.7.2737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Simian virus 40-based plasmids that direct the synthesis of preproinsulin in cultured monkey cells were used to study the effects of mRNA structure on translational efficiency. Lengthening the leader sequence enhanced translation in this system. The enhancement was most obvious when an unstructured sequence (two, four, or eight copies of the oligonucleotide AGCTAAGTAAGTAAGTA) was inserted upstream from a region of deliberate secondary structure; the degree of enhancement was proportional to the number of copies of the inserted oligonucleotide. Lengthening the leader sequence on the 3' side of a stem-and-loop structure, in contrast, did not offset the potentially inhibitory effect of the hairpin structure. Both the facilitating effect of length and the inhibitory effect of secondary structure were demonstrated most easily under conditions of mRNA competition, which was brought about by an abrupt shift in the tonicity of the culture medium. These experiments suggest a simple structural basis for the long-recognized differential response of viral and cellular mRNAs to hypertonic stress. The fact that the translatability of structure-prone mRNAs varies with changes in the environment may also have general implications for gene expression in eucaryotic cells.
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Ueda H, Harada H, Nozaki M, Katada T, Ui M, Satoh M, Takagi H. Reconstitution of rat brain mu opioid receptors with purified guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins, Gi and Go. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:7013-7. [PMID: 2842801 PMCID: PMC282110 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.18.7013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Reconstitution of purified mu opioid receptors with purified guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) was investigated. mu opioid receptors were purified by 6-succinylmorphine AF-AminoTOYOPEARL 650M affinity chromatography and by PBE isoelectric chromatography. The purified mu opioid receptor (pI 5.6) migrated as a single Mr 58,000 polypeptide by NaDodSO4/PAGE, a value identical to that obtained by affinity cross-linking purified mu receptors. When purified mu receptors were reconstituted with purified Gi, the G protein that mediates the inhibition of adenylate cyclase, the displacement of [3H]naloxone (a mu opioid antagonist) binding by [D-Ala2,MePhe4,Gly-ol5]enkephalin (a mu opioid agonist) was increased 215-fold; this increase was abolished by adding 100 microM (guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate. Similar increases in agonist displacement of [3H]naloxone binding (33-fold) and its abolition by guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate were observed with Go, the G protein of unknown function, but not with the v-Ki-ras protein p21. In reconstituted preparations with Gi or Go, neither [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin (a delta opioid agonist; where Pen is penicillamine) nor U-69,593 (a kappa opioid agonist) showed displacement of the [3H]naloxone binding. In addition, the mu agonist stimulated both [3H]guanosine 5'-[beta,gamma-imido]triphosphate binding (in exchange for GDP) and the low-Km GTPase in such reconstituted preparations, with Gi and Go but not with the v-Ki-ras protein p21, in a naloxone-reversible manner. The stoichiometry was such that the stimulation of 1 mol of mu receptor led to the binding of [3H]guanosine 5'-[beta,gamma-imido]triphosphate to 2.5 mol of Gi or to 1.37 mol of Go. These results suggest that the purified mu opioid receptor is functionally coupled to Gi and Go in the reconstituted phospholipid vesicles.
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- H Ueda
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
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A Drosophila melanogaster G protein alpha subunit gene is expressed primarily in embryos and pupae. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37894-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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