Subunit interactions of GTP‐binding proteins
- 3 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 204 (3), 1169-1181
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16744.x
Abstract
Fluorescence energy transfer [cf. Förster, T. (1948) Ann. Phys. 6, 55-75] was tested for its suitability to study quantitative interactions of subunits of G0 with each other and these subunits or trimeric G0 with the beta 1-adrenoceptor in detergent micelles or after reconstitution into lipid vesicles [according to Feder, D., Im, M.-J., Klein, H. W., Hekman, M., Holzhöfer, A, Dees, C., Levitzki, A., Helmreich, E. J. M. & Pfeuffer, T. (1986) EMBO J. 5, 1509-1514]. For this purpose, alpha 0- and beta gamma-subunits and trimeric G0 purified from bovine brain, the beta gamma-subunits from bovine rod outer segment membranes and the beta 1-adrenoceptor from the turkey erythrocyte were all labelled with either tetramethylrhodamine maleimide or fluorescein isothiocyanate under conditions which leave the labelled proteins functionally intact. In the case of alpha 0- and beta gamma-interactions, specific high-affinity binding interactions (Kd approximately 10 nM) and nonspecific low-affinity binding interactions (Kd approximately 1 microM) could be readily distinguished by comparing fluorescence energy transfer before and after dissociation with 10 microM guanosine 5'-O-[gamma-thio]triphosphate and 10 mM MgCl2 where only low-affinity binding interactions remained. Interactions between alpha 0- and beta gamma-subunits from bovine brain or from bovine retinal transducin did not differ much. The beta gamma-subunits from bovine brain were found to bind with high transfer efficiency and comparable affinities to the hormone-activated and the nonactivated beta 1-receptor reconstituted in lipid vesicles: Kd = 100 +/- 20 and 120 +/- 20 nM, respectively; however, beta gamma-subunits from transducin appeared to bind more weakly to the beta 1-adrenoceptor than beta gamma-subunits from bovine brain. Separated purified homologous alpha 0- and beta gamma-subunits from bovine brain interfered mutually with each other in binding to the beta 1-adrenoceptor presumably because they had a greater affinity for each other than for the receptor. These findings attest to the suitability of fluorescence energy transfer for studying protein-protein interactions of G-proteins and G-protein-linked receptors. Moreover, they supported the previous finding [Kurstjens, N. P., Fröhlich, M., Dees, C., Cantrill, R. C., Hekman, M. & Helmreich, E. J. M. (1991) Eur. J. Biochem. 197, 167-176] that beta gamma-subunits can bind to the nonactivated beta 1-adrenoceptor.Keywords
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