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Molecular Biology of the Cell
Article . 2009 . Peer-reviewed
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DrosophilaGoLoco-Protein Pins Is a Target of Gαo-mediated G Protein–coupled Receptor Signaling

Authors: Kopein, Damir; Katanaev, Vladimir L.;

DrosophilaGoLoco-Protein Pins Is a Target of Gαo-mediated G Protein–coupled Receptor Signaling

Abstract

G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) transduce their signals through trimeric G proteins, inducing guanine nucleotide exchange on their Gα-subunits; the resulting Gα-GTP transmits the signal further inside the cell. GoLoco domains present in many proteins play important roles in multiple trimeric G protein–dependent activities, physically binding Gα-subunits of the Gαi/oclass. In most cases GoLoco binds exclusively to the GDP-loaded form of the Gα-subunits. Here we demonstrate that the poly-GoLoco–containing protein Pins of Drosophila can bind to both GDP- and GTP-forms of Drosophila Gαo. We identify Pins GoLoco domain 1 as necessary and sufficient for this unusual interaction with Gαo-GTP. We further pinpoint a lysine residue located centrally in this domain as necessary for the interaction. Our studies thus identify Drosophila Pins as a target of Gαo-mediated GPCR receptor signaling, e.g., in the context of the nervous system development, where Gαoacts downstream from Frizzled and redundantly with Gαito control the asymmetry of cell divisions.

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info:eu-repo/classification/gnd/Drosophila, Molecular Sequence Data, Cell Cycle Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go, Guanosine Diphosphate, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Pins, Two-Hybrid System Techniques, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/570, Binding Sites, GoLoco domains, Lysine, GTPase-Activating Proteins, Frizzled Receptors, Drosophila melanogaster, Galphao, Guanosine Triphosphate, Sequence Alignment, Signal Transduction

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