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Regulation of heterotrimeric G protein signaling by subunit phosphorylation

通过亚基磷酸化调节异源三聚体 G 蛋白信号传导

基本信息

批准号：
10379961
负责人：
SARAH M ASSMANN
金额：
$ 29.99万
依托单位：
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-04-01 至 2024-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10379961
关键词：
Address Animals Arabidopsis Attention Binding Biochemical Biochemical Genetics Biological Assay Biological Models Cardiac health Cells Clinical Communicable Diseases Complement Coupled Coupling Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases Data Set Defect Development Disease Disease susceptibility Dissociation Drug Targeting Elements Family G-Protein-Coupled Receptors GTP Binding GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs GTP-Binding Proteins Genes Genetic Genetic Diseases Genetic Epistasis Goals Guanine Nucleotides Guanosine Triphosphate Guanosine Triphosphate Phosphohydrolases Health Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins Human Hydrolysis IRAK1 gene Impairment In Vitro Intervention Lead Ligand Binding Ligands Malignant Neoplasms Mediating Modernization Molecular Mouse-ear Cress Mutation Nature Opioid Analgesics Pathway interactions Pharmaceutical Preparations Phenocopy Phenotype Phosphorylation Phosphotransferases Plant Model Plant Proteins Plants Post-Translational Protein Processing Process Protein Conformation Protein Subunits Proteins Proteomics RGS Proteins RGS1 gene Recombinants Regulation Research Seedling Signal Transduction Signaling Protein Site Specificity Stress System Testing Transmembrane Domain Variant Whole Organism base dimer drug discovery environmental stressor experimental study genetic analysis genetic resource hormonal signals improved in vitro Assay in vivo member mutant novel organ growth pathogen phosphoproteomics protein function protein protein interaction receptor repaired response small molecule tool

项目摘要

Project Summary Heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding (G) proteins composed of Gα, Gβ, and Gγ subunits function as molecular switches in signal transduction. Human G protein pathways are targets of over 30% of clinical drugs and their mutation causes genetic disease, developmental abnormalities, and altered infectious disease susceptibility. While humans have 16 Gα, 5 Gβ, and 12 Gγ genes, the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, has many fewer -- only one canonical Gα (GPA1), one Gβ (AGB1), and three Gγ (AGG1, AGG2 and AGG3) genes. Yet plant G proteins, as in humans, regulate a multiplicity of pathways. Arabidopsis G protein mutants show developmental defects, defects in pathogen defense, and defects in responses to environmental stresses. While Arabidopsis has only one protein (GCR1) with sequence and structural similarity to the 800+ metazoan GPCRs, Arabidopsis has ~600 receptor-like-kinases (RLKs), which form a monophyletic group with Pelle kinases of metazoans. Mass spectrometric analyses in the PI's lab have revealed multiple RLKs present in GPA1 and AGB1 immunoprecipitates, consistent with new genetic evidence of RLK/G protein interaction and confirmed by our kinase assays showing direct GPA1 phosphorylation by RLKs. Phosphoproteomics identifies G protein subunit phosphorylation at conserved sites in plant and metazoan G protein subunits. The overarching hypothesis of the proposed research is that phosphorylation of G protein subunits is an evolutionarily conserved regulatory mechanism that confers specificity to G protein signaling. Three explicit hypotheses are: 1) phosphorylation of G protein subunits controls G protein guanine nucleotide exchange, GTPase activity and heterotrimer association; 2) ligand-activated kinases (RLKs in plants) are GPCRs at the apex of phospho-controlled G protein signaling networks, and; 3) Gα and Gβγ subunit phosphorylation confers specificity to G protein subunit interaction with downstream partners (effectors). These hypotheses will be tested in the Arabidopsis system by, respectively: 1) biochemical assays of the G protein cycle and protein- protein interactions within the heterotrimer; 2) genetic epistasis analysis between G protein subunits and implicated RLKs, phosphoproteomic analyses of G protein subunits following RLK ligand stimulation and in rlk null lines, and in vitro phosphorylation assays; 3) phenotyping of G protein subunit null mutants complemented with phosphomimic and phosphonull G protein subunits, identification of phosphorylation-dependent subunit- effector interactions by coimmunoprecipitation and protein-protein interaction assays, and targeted tests of effector competition for G protein subunits. Arabidopsis is ideal to address these issues in a systematic and comprehensive manner, as it provides a limited number of G protein subunits, ease of manipulation, a plethora of genetic tools, and an array of whole-organism and single-cell G protein phenotypes. Completion of these goals will reveal new mechanisms of G protein modulation, amenable for manipulation and drug targeting to meet the major challenge of pathway-specific control of G protein signaling for improvement of human health.

项目总结