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Src kinase regulates the activation of a novel FGD-1-related Cdc42 guanine nucleotide exchange factor in the signaling pathway from the endothelin A receptor to JNK.

The Journal of biological chemistry ·Vol. 278 ·No. 32 ·2003-08-08 ·Pages 29890-900

Miyamoto Y, Yamauchi J, Itoh H

Abstract

Small GTPases act as binary switches by cycling between an inactive (GDP-bound) and an active (GTP-bound) state. Upon stimulation with extracellular signals, guanine-nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) stimulate the exchange of GDP to GTP to shift toward the active forms of small GTPases, recognizing the downstream targets. Here we show that KIAA0793, containing substantial sequence homology with the catalytic Dbl homology domain of the faciogenital dysplasia gene product (FGD1), is a specific GEF for Cdc42. We, therefore, tentatively named it FRG (FGD1-related Cdc42-GEF). Src kinase directly phosphorylates and activates FRG, as Vav family GEFs. Additionally, FRG is involved in the signaling pathway from the endothelin A receptor to c-Jun N-terminal kinase, resulting in the inhibition of cell motility. These results suggest that FRG is a member of Cdc42-GEF and plays an important role in the signaling pathway downstream of G protein-coupled receptors.

MeSH Terms
Amino Acid Sequence Catalytic Domain Cell Line Cell Movement Cells, Cultured DNA, Complementary/metabolism Endothelin-1/metabolism Endothelins/metabolism Enzyme Activation Genes, Dominant Glutathione Transferase/metabolism Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/chemistry,physiology Humans JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases MAP Kinase Kinase 4 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases/metabolism Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism Models, Biological Molecular Sequence Data Mutation Phosphorylation Proline/chemistry Protein Binding Proteins/metabolism Receptor, Endothelin A Receptors, Endothelin/metabolism Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism Recombinant Proteins/metabolism Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Signal Transduction Time Factors Transfection Tyrosine/metabolism cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism rac1 GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism rho GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism src-Family Kinases/physiology
Chemicals
DNA, Complementary Endothelin-1 Endothelins FGD1 protein, human FGD1-related Cdc42-GEF protein, human Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Proteins Receptor, Endothelin A Receptors, Endothelin Recombinant Fusion Proteins Recombinant Proteins Tyrosine Proline Glutathione Transferase src-Family Kinases JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases MAP Kinase Kinase 4 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein rac1 GTP-Binding Protein rho GTP-Binding Proteins rhoA GTP-Binding Protein
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Miyamoto Yuki
Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan.
Yamauchi Junji
Itoh Hiroshi
Article Info
Journal
The Journal of biological chemistry
Abbr.
J Biol Chem
ISSN
0021-9258
Published
2003-08-08
Epub
2003-00-27
Pages
29890-900
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985121R
Subset
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