TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of CRAC, a cytosolic regulator required for guanine nucleotide stimulation of adenylyl cyclase in Dictyostelium
AU - Lilly, Pamela J.
AU - Devreotes, Peter N.
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PY - 1994/5/13
Y1 - 1994/5/13
N2 - As previously reported, guanine nucleotide regulation of adenylyl cyclase activity in the Dictyostelium mutant synag 7 can be restored in vitro by addition of a high-speed supernatant prepared from wild-type cells (Theibert, A., and Devreotes, P. N. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 15121-15125). We have designated this activity CRAC, for cytosolic regulator of adenylyl cyclase. Trypsinization of partially purified material demonstrated that this activity contains a protein. We report here a 50,000-fold purification of this protein using Q and S Sepharose fast flow and P11 cellulose chromatography, followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation and separation on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Purification of wild-type and mutant supernatants in parallel allowed identification of an 88-kDa protein required for reconstituting activity. A polyclonal antibody was raised against this protein; it stains a band in unfractionated wild-type, but not mutant, supernatants. Immunoblots of fractions from each purification step show that activity and the immunostaining band cochromatograph. We have determined a short N-terminal sequence of the 88-kDa CRAC polypeptide, which matches a portion of the deduced N terminus of a gene, dagA, isolated from a mutant similar to synag 7. Expression of the dagA cDNA in synag 7 cells restores both the 88 kDa band and CRAC activity.
AB - As previously reported, guanine nucleotide regulation of adenylyl cyclase activity in the Dictyostelium mutant synag 7 can be restored in vitro by addition of a high-speed supernatant prepared from wild-type cells (Theibert, A., and Devreotes, P. N. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 15121-15125). We have designated this activity CRAC, for cytosolic regulator of adenylyl cyclase. Trypsinization of partially purified material demonstrated that this activity contains a protein. We report here a 50,000-fold purification of this protein using Q and S Sepharose fast flow and P11 cellulose chromatography, followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation and separation on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Purification of wild-type and mutant supernatants in parallel allowed identification of an 88-kDa protein required for reconstituting activity. A polyclonal antibody was raised against this protein; it stains a band in unfractionated wild-type, but not mutant, supernatants. Immunoblots of fractions from each purification step show that activity and the immunostaining band cochromatograph. We have determined a short N-terminal sequence of the 88-kDa CRAC polypeptide, which matches a portion of the deduced N terminus of a gene, dagA, isolated from a mutant similar to synag 7. Expression of the dagA cDNA in synag 7 cells restores both the 88 kDa band and CRAC activity.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8188693
AN - SCOPUS:0028287376
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 269
SP - 14123
EP - 14129
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 19
ER -