Publication Date:
1989-02-10
Description:
Signal transducing guanine nucleotide binding (G) proteins are heterotrimers with different alpha subunits that confer specificity for interactions with receptors and effectors. Eight to ten such G proteins couple a large number of receptors for hormones and neurotransmitters to at least eight different effectors. Although one G protein can interact with several receptors, a given G protein was thought to interact with but one effector. The recent finding that voltage-gated calcium channels are stimulated by purified Gs, which stimulates adenylyl cyclase, challenged this concept. However, purified Gs may have four distinct alpha-subunit polypeptides, produced by alternative splicing of messenger RNA. By using recombinant DNA techniques, three of the splice variants were synthesized in Escherichia coli and each variant was shown to stimulate both adenylyl cyclase and calcium channels. Thus, a single G protein alpha subunit may regulate more than one effector function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mattera, R -- Graziano, M P -- Yatani, A -- Zhou, Z -- Graf, R -- Codina, J -- Birnbaumer, L -- Gilman, A G -- Brown, A M -- DK-19318/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HL-31164/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL-39262/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Feb 10;243(4892):804-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2536957" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenylyl Cyclases/*physiology
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Animals
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Calcium Channels/*physiology
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GTP-Binding Proteins/*genetics/physiology/ultrastructure
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In Vitro Techniques
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Macromolecular Substances
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RNA Splicing
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Structure-Activity Relationship
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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