Photoaffinity labeling of cyclic-AMP- and AMP-binding proteins differentiating Dictyostelium discoideum cells.
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 76 (9), 4250-4254
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.76.9.4250
Abstract
Cyclic[c]AMP-binding proteins play important roles during the differentiation of the cellular slime mold D. discoideum. The photoaffinity reagent 8-N3-cyclic[32P]AMP was used to label developmentally regulated cyclic-AMP-binding proteins of intact cells, membranes, and cytoplasm. 8-N3-cAMP is a chemoattractant for differentiated D. discoideum cells and is a substrate for the membrane phosphodiesterase (mPDE). When mPDE is inhibited, the only specifically labeled protein on intact cells has a MW of 40,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels. The developmental time course of appearance of this protein and its high specificity for cAMP identify it as the cell surface chemotactic receptor for cAMP. The concentration dependence of labeling of this protein is consistent with the measured chemotactic potency of 8-N3-cAMP, which is about 1/100th that of cAMP. Three developmentally regulated proteins (MW 26,000, 33,000, and 36,000) of the soluble fraction (cytoplasm) are labeled by the photoaffinity reagent and are specific for cAMP. By analogy with other systems, these may be regulatory subunits of protein kinases. The mPDE of ghosts or plasma membrane fractions converts the reagent to 8-N3[32P]AMP, which specifically photoaffinity labels a protein of MW 42,000 associated with the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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