title: Redistribution of ADP-ribosylation factor during stimulation of permeabilized cells with GTP analogues.
abstract: Low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins of the ras family were analysed by [32P]GTP binding after PAGE and transfer to nitrocellulose membranes. By this technique, several GTP-binding proteins in the 20-30 kDa range were detected in both cytosolic and microsomal fractions of RINm5F cells. One of these, displaying an apparent molecular mass of about 20 kDa and a pI of 6.7, was mainly cytosolic and was shown to be the ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) by using specific antibodies. When permeabilized RINm5F cells were incubated with the stable GTP analogues guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) and guanosine 5'-[beta gamma-imido]triphosphate (p[NH]ppG) the amount of ARF increased in a fraction containing both Golgi and plasma-membrane markers, but not in the fraction containing secretory granules, mitochondria and lysosomes. GTP, GDP and its beta-thio analogue did not enhance ARF binding to membranes, smg25/rab3 and rho, as well as all the other small GTP-binding proteins detected by the [32P]GTP binding, did not redistribute under these conditions. As GTP[S] stimulates insulin secretion in these cells, we also examined the relationship between ARF translocation and insulin secretion. Both phenomena were elicited by GTP[S] with an EC50 (median effective concentration) of about 10 microM. p[NH]ppG was equipotent with GTP[S] in inducing insulin secretion (EC50 about 10 microM), but higher concentrations (about 500 microns) were required to achieve the same maximal ARF redistribution. These results suggest that: (1) ARF is subject to cycling between a membrane-associated and a free/loosely attached form, determined by the species of bound guanine nucleotide; (2) ARF alone does not seem to regulate exocytosis in insulin-secreting cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Regazzi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ullrich
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kahn
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Wollheim
mesh_terms: D020727:ADP-Ribosylation Factors; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) / Q000494:pharmacology; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008861:Microsomes / Q000378:metabolism; D008970:Molecular Weight
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D020727:ADP-Ribosylation Factors