Specific Disruption of Ras2 CAAX Proteolysis Alters Its Localization and Function.
Specific Disruption of Ras2 CAAX Proteolysis Alters Its Localization and Function.
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10.1128/spectrum.02692-22
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2023-02-14
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3.7
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Many CAAX proteins, such as Ras GTPase, undergo a series of posttranslational modifications at their carboxyl terminus (i.e., cysteine prenylation, endoproteolysis of AAX, and carboxylmethylation). Some CAAX proteins, however, undergo prenylation-only modification, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp40 Ydj1. We previously observed that altering the CAAX motif of Ydj1 from prenylation-only to canonical resulted in altered Ydj1 function and localization. Here, we investigated the effects of a reciprocal change that altered the well-characterized canonical CAAX motif of S. cerevisiae Ras2 to prenylation-only. We observed that the type of CAAX motif impacted Ras2 protein levels, localization, and function. Moreover, we observed that using a prenylation-only sequence to stage hyperactive Ras2-G19V as a farnesylated and nonproteolyzed intermediate resulted in a different phenotype relative to staging by a genetic RCE1 deletion strategy that simultaneously affected many CAAX proteins. These findings suggested that a prenylation-only CAAX motif is useful for probing the specific impact of CAAX proteolysis on Ras2 under conditions where other CAAX proteins are normally modified. We propose that our strategy could be easily applied to a wide range of CAAX proteins for examining the specific impact of CAAX proteolysis on their functions. IMPORTANCE CAAX proteins are subject to multiple posttranslational modifications: cysteine prenylation, CAAX proteolysis, and carboxylmethylation. For investigations of CAAX proteolysis, this study took the novel approach of using a proteolysis-resistant CAAX sequence to stage Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ras2 GTPase in a farnesylated and nonproteolyzed state. Our approach specifically limited the effects of disrupting CAAX proteolysis to Ras2. This represented an improvement over previous methods where CAAX proteolysis was inhibited by gene knockout, small interfering RNA knockdown, or biochemical inhibition of the Rce1 CAAX protease, which can lead to pleiotropic and unclear attribution of effects due to the action of Rce1 on multiple CAAX proteins. Our approach yielded results that demonstrated specific impacts of CAAX proteolysis on the function, localization, and other properties of Ras2, highlighting the utility of this approach for investigating the impact of CAAX proteolysis in other protein contexts.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.92.7.2984
发表时间:
1995-03-28
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
BHATTACHARYA, S;CHEN, L;POWERS, S
通讯作者:
POWERS, S
影响因子:
6
作者:
Cazzanelli G;Pereira F;Alves S;Francisco R;Azevedo L;Dias Carvalho P;Almeida A;Côrte-Real M;Oliveira MJ;Lucas C;Sousa MJ;Preto A
通讯作者:
Preto A
DOI:
10.1038/nrm3255
发表时间:
2011-12-22
期刊:
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology
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影响因子:
8.8
作者:
Christiano R;Nagaraj N;Fröhlich F;Walther TC
通讯作者:
Walther TC
影响因子:
4
作者:
Hobbs, G. Aaron;Der, Channing J.;Rossman, Kent L.
通讯作者:
Rossman, Kent L.