title: Probable occurrence of toxin-susceptible G proteins in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
abstract: Pertussis toxin, islet-activating protein (IAP), and cholera toxin ADP-ribosylated 40 kDa and 45 kDa proteins in membrane preparations from Caenorhabditis elegans. Proteins with the same molecular weights were recognized in the same membranes by an antibody that had been raised against a peptide common to alpha-subunits of mammalian alpha beta gamma-heterotrimeric G proteins. The antibody produced immunoprecipitation with the 40 kDa protein 32P-labeled by IAP. A 35 kDa protein immunochemically indistinguishable from the beta-component of mammalian G proteins was also found in C. elegans membranes. The membranes displayed adenylate cyclase activity which was highly sensitive to forskolin and GTP analogues, whose action was antagonized by GDP beta S. Receptor-coupled regulation of adenylate cyclase thus appears to be mediated by mammalian-type G proteins in C. elegans as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ui
mesh_terms: D000246:Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose / Q000378:metabolism; D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002107:Caenorhabditis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015151:Immunoblotting; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D000246:Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose; D002772:Cholera Toxin; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases