Publication Date:
2014-03-22
Description:
Biological oscillations are observed at many levels of cellular organization. In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, starvation-triggered multicellular development is organized by periodic cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) waves, which provide both chemoattractant gradients and developmental signals. We report that GtaC, a GATA transcription factor, exhibits rapid nucleocytoplasmic shuttling in response to cAMP waves. This behavior requires coordinated action of a nuclear localization signal and reversible G protein (heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein)-coupled receptor-mediated phosphorylation. Although both are required for developmental gene expression, receptor occupancy promotes nuclear exit of GtaC, which leads to a transient burst of transcription at each cAMP cycle. We demonstrate that this biological circuit filters out high-frequency signals and counts those admitted, thereby enabling cells to modulate gene expression according to the dynamic pattern of the external stimuli.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061987/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061987/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cai, Huaqing -- Katoh-Kurasawa, Mariko -- Muramoto, Tetsuya -- Santhanam, Balaji -- Long, Yu -- Li, Lei -- Ueda, Masahiro -- Iglesias, Pablo A -- Shaulsky, Gad -- Devreotes, Peter N -- GM 28007/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 34933/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HD 039691/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P01 HD039691/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM028007/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM034933/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM028007/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Mar 21;343(6177):1249531. doi: 10.1126/science.1249531.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
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Cell Nucleus/*metabolism
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Cyclic AMP/metabolism/pharmacology
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Cytoplasm/*metabolism
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Dictyostelium/growth & development/*metabolism
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GATA Transcription Factors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Gene Expression Regulation
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Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
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Nuclear Localization Signals
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Phosphorylation
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Protozoan Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/metabolism
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
