The regulation and cellular activities of the Arl2 GTPase

Arl2 GTPase 的调节和细胞活性

• 批准号: 8508271
• 负责人: Richard A Kahn
• 金额: $ 45.6万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8508271
• 关键词: Adenine Nucleotide Translocase; Adenine Nucleotides; Agonist; Arginine; Attenuated; Binding; Biological; Cell Death; Cell Nucleus; Cell division; Cell physiology; Cells; Cellular biology; Centrosome; Chemicals; Chronic Disease; Complex; Coupling; Cultured Cells; Cytoskeleton; Cytosol; Data; Diabetes Mellitus; Energy Metabolism; Eukaryota; Eukaryotic Cell; Family; GTPase-Activating Proteins; Generations; Genetic Transcription; Golgi Apparatus; Growth; Guanosine Triphosphate Phosphohydrolases; Health; Hormones; In Vitro; Inner mitochondrial membrane; Laboratories; Lead; Link; Location; Maintenance; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Membrane Protein Traffic; Microtubules; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial Proteins; Modeling; Molecular; Molecular Chaperones; Molecular Models; Morphology; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Orthologous Gene; Oxygen Consumption; Paclitaxel; Phenotype; Play; Production; Prokaryotic Cells; Property; Proteins; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Role; SLC25A4 gene; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Site; Site-Directed Mutagenesis; Specificity; Stress; Tertiary Protein Structure; Testing; Tubulin; cell growth regulation; cell motility; chemotherapeutic agent; cofactor; cytokine; energy balance; member; mitochondrion intermembrane space; molecular modeling; novel; protein complex; public health relevance; response; tumorigenesis

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Arf family of regulatory GTPases, within the Ras superfamily, emerged in prokaryotes and members of the Arf family, Arfs and Arl2, have been implicated as critical components in the endosymbiotic origins of eukaryotes. As such they are predicted to have essential roles in the regulation of cell biology in all eukaryotes. We and others have previously provided evidence for a role for Arl2 in microtubule growth in cells but more recently we have discovered an obligate role for Arl2 in maintenance of energy (ATP) levels that is predicted to be its fundamental role in eukaryotes. In this application I propose to develop molecular models of Arl2 regulation of ATP levels, as well as for the newly identified Arl2 GAPs/effectors in the ELMO (Engulfment and cell motility) family, that regulate mitochondria and Golgi morphology. This application has three specific aims. (1) Determine the role of Arl2 in maintenance of ATP levels. (2) Characterize the GAP domain of ELMOD2 and its actions in mitochondria including specifically its role in mitochondrial morphology. (3) Determine the specificity and functions of ELMOD1. I hypothesize that ELMOD1 acts in cells as an ArfGAP that can attenuate Arf signaling at the Golgi and impact membrane traffic also at the TGN, where it has effector properties. Together these aims will provide detailed molecular models of an ancient means of regulating energy metabolism in perhaps all eukaryotic cells, with ties to cell division, the cytoskeleton, and the regulation of gene transcription in the nucleus. These studies have the potential to fundamentally alter our understanding of essential cellular processes with ties to energy metabolism, cancer, sensitivity to cancer chemotherapeutics, and gene transcription. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Maintenance of proper energy balance is essential to the health and function of all cells and is the primary responsibility of mitochondria, the site of chemical energy (ATP) generation and oxygen consumption. Dramatic changes in energy utilization are known to accompany chronic diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes. We have discovered novel signaling pathways that are involved in regulating cellular ATP levels and the morphology of the mitochondria and Golgi compartments that are tied to the ancient and highly conserved regulatory GTPase Arl2. In this application I propose three specific aims that will elucidate molecular mechanisms of Arl2 and Arl2 GTPase activating protein actions as regulators of ATP production, mitochondria morphology, and Golgi integrity with predicted links to cell division and the cell cytoskeleton.

描述（由申请人提供）：Ras超家族中的调节gtpase的Arf家族出现在原核生物中，Arf家族的成员Arfs和Arl2被认为是真核生物内共生起源的关键成分。因此，它们被预测在所有真核生物的细胞生物学调节中具有重要作用。我们和其他人之前已经提供了Arl2在细胞微管生长中的作用的证据，但最近我们发现了Arl2在维持能量（ATP）水平方面的专性作用，这被预测为其在真核生物中的基本作用。在本申请中，我建议开发Arl2调节ATP水平的分子模型，以及新发现的ELMO（吞噬和细胞运动）家族中调节线粒体和高尔基体形态的Arl2 gap /效应物。这个应用程序有三个具体目标。(1)确定Arl2在维持ATP水平中的作用。(2)表征ELMOD2的GAP结构域及其在线粒体中的作用，包括其在线粒体形态中的作用。(3)确定ELMOD1的特异性和功能。我假设ELMOD1在细胞中作为一种ArfGAP，可以减弱高尔基体上的Arf信号，并影响TGN上的膜交通，在那里它具有效应特性。总之，这些目标将提供一种古老的调节所有真核细胞能量代谢的方法的详细分子模型，这种方法与细胞分裂、细胞骨架和细胞核中基因转录的调节有关。这些研究有可能从根本上改变我们对与能量代谢、癌症、对癌症化疗药物的敏感性和基因转录相关的基本细胞过程的理解。