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RhoA-GDP regulates RhoB protein stability. Potential involvement of RhoGDIalpha.

Authors: Ho, Thi Thanh Giang; Merajver, Sofia D; Lapière, Charles; Nusgens, Betty; Deroanne, Christophe;

RhoA-GDP regulates RhoB protein stability. Potential involvement of RhoGDIalpha.

Abstract

RhoA plays a significant role in actin stress fibers formation. However, silencing RhoA alone or RhoA and RhoC did not completely suppress the stress fibers suggesting a residual "Rho-like" activity. RhoB, the third member of the Rho subclass, is a shortlived protein barely detectable in basal conditions. In various cell types, the silencing of RhoA induced a strong up-regulation of both total and active RhoB protein levels that were rescued by re-expressing RhoA and related to an enhanced half-life of the protein. The RhoA-dependent regulation of RhoB does not depend on the activity of RhoA but is mediated by its GDP-bound form. The stabilization of RhoB was not dependent on isoprenoid biosynthesis, Rho kinase, extracellular signal-regulated kinase, p38 mitogen-activated kinase, or phosphatidylinositol 3'-OH kinase pathways but required RhoGDIalpha. The forced expression of RhoGDIalpha increased RhoB half-life, whereas its knock-down antagonized the induction of RhoB following RhoA silencing. Moreover, a RhoA mutant (RhoAR68E) unable to bind RhoGDIalpha was significantly less efficient as compared with wild-type RhoA in reversing RhoB up-regulation upon RhoA silencing. These results suggest that, in basal conditions, RhoGDIalpha is rate-limiting and the suppression of RhoA makes it available to stabilize RhoB. Our results highlight RhoGDIalpha-dependent cross-talks that regulate the stability of RhoGTPases.

Keywords

rho GTP-Binding Proteins, Genetic Vectors, Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors/metabolism, Biochimie, biophysique & biologie moléculaire, Transfection, Guanosine Diphosphate, Models, Biological, rho GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism, Animals, Humans, rho-Specific Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors, Gene Silencing, rhoB GTP-Binding Protein, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism/physiology, Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors, Guanosine Diphosphate/chemistry, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, rhoB GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism, Life sciences, Up-Regulation, Protein Transport, rhoC GTP-Binding Protein, Sciences du vivant, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein, Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology, Signal Transduction

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