Affiliation:
1. Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2. Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7260
Abstract
ABSTRACTA common property of G protein-coupled receptors is that they become less responsive with prolonged stimulation. Regulators of G protein signaling (RGS proteins) are well known to accelerate G protein GTPase activity and do so by stabilizing the transition state conformation of the G protein α subunit. In the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiaethere are four RGS-homologous proteins (Sst2, Rgs2, Rax1, and Mdm1) and two Gα proteins (Gpa1 and Gpa2). We show that Sst2 is the only RGS protein that binds selectively to the transition state conformation of Gpa1. The other RGS proteins also bind Gpa1 and modulate pheromone signaling, but to a lesser extent and in a manner clearly distinct from Sst2. To identify other candidate pathway regulators, we compared pheromone responses in 4,349 gene deletion mutants representing nearly all nonessential genes in yeast. A number of mutants produced an increase (sst2,bar1,asc1, andygl024w) or decrease (cla4) in pheromone sensitivity or resulted in pheromone-independent signaling (sst2,pbs2,gas1, andygl024w). These findings suggest that Sst2 is the principal regulator of Gpa1-mediated signaling in vivo but that other proteins also contribute in distinct ways to pathway regulation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Microbiology
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