title: Functional heterogeneity of beta gamma-subunit of frog transducin.
abstract: 1. Transducin subunits (T alpha and T beta gamma) were purified from freshly dissected frog (Rana catesbeiana) retinas. It was found that purified T beta gamma is composed of three components which can be separated from each other by an anion exchange column chromatography under nondenaturing conditions. 2. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses of these three components demonstrated that each contains T beta (mol. wt 35,000) and T gamma (mol. wt approximately 8000). 3. Only one of the three components retained an ability to enhance the binding of GppNHp to T alpha in the presence of a photobleaching intermediate of rhodopsin, while the others showed very low abilities to enhance the binding. 4. These observations, together with the similar findings on bovine T beta gamma, strongly suggest that the functional heterogeneity of T beta gamma is conserved in vertebrate photoreceptor cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohguro
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akino
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011892:Rana catesbeiana / Q000378:metabolism*; D012160:Retina / Q000378:metabolism; D015293:Transducin / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate; D015293:Transducin