Cerebral muscarinic acetylcholine receptors interact with three kinds of GTP-binding proteins in a reconstitution system of purified components

K Haga, H Uchiyama, T Haga, A Ichiyama, K Kangawa and H Matsuo

Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.

A new GTP-binding protein, which serves as a substrate for pertussis toxin, was prepared from porcine brain. The new G protein was separated from other GTP-binding proteins, Gi and Go, by an anion-exchange column chromatography. The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the alpha subunit of the new G protein was between those of alpha subunits of Gi and Go. Evidence that the alpha subunit is not a proteolytic fragment of the alpha subunit is not a proteolytic fragment of the alpha subunit of Gi or Go was provided by experiments involving partial hydrolysis of these G proteins with thermolysin and their interaction with an antibody raised against the amino terminal peptide of the alpha subunit of Gi. In addition, the gamma subunit of the new G protein was indicated to be different from the gamma subunits of Gi and Go, because the latter were found to be phosphorylated by protein kinase C but the former was not. GTP- sensitive high affinity binding of muscarinic receptors with acetylcholine was observed when muscarinic receptors purified from porcine cerebrum were reconstituted in phospholipid vesicles with the new G protein as well as with Gi or Go. The proportion of the high affinity sites increased with the concentrations of the G proteins, the potency of the new G protein being similar to that of Gi but a little lower than that of Go. This GTP-sensitive high affinity binding was not observed when each G protein was pretreated with pertussis toxin and then reconstituted with muscarinic receptors. Acetylcholine accelerated the dissociation of [3H]GDP from the new G protein as well as from Gi and Go, which were reconstituted with muscarinic receptors. These results indicate that muscarinic receptors interact with at least the above three kinds of G proteins, in a pertussis toxin-sensitive manner.

Volume 35, Issue 3, pp. 286-294, 03/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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