title: Aberrant cGMP-binding activity in non-chemotactic Dictyostelium discoideum mutants.
abstract: The kinetics of cGMP-binding to the major cGMP-binding activity in Dictyostelium were investigated in 10 non-chemotactic mutants (KI mutants; KI-1 approximately 10). A wild-type cell contains about 3000 binding sites with a Kd of 1.5 nM. cGMP may dissociate from these binding sites with fast (F-type) or slow (S-type) kinetics, and DNA has been shown to promote the conversion of F- to S-type of cGMP-binding. The 10 mutants were placed in 4 classes, based on equilibrium and non-equilibrium binding properties and the effect of DNA. Class I mutants (KI-1, 3 and 8) have normal cGMP-binding properties. Class II mutants (KI-2, 6 and 7) show increased Kd values but nearly normal Bmax, normal F/S ratio and normal effects of DNA. Class III mutants (KI-4, 5 and 10) have a strongly decreased Kd and increased Bmax, nearly all binding sites are of the S-type and DNA does not affect the binding; apparently these mutants have a cGMP-binding protein locked in the S-form. cGMP-binding in class IV mutant (KI-9) is normal except that the number of binding sites is increased about 3-fold. The finding of seven mutants with altered cGMP-binding in 10 non-chemotactic mutants suggests that the cGMP-binding activity plays an important role in the chemotactic signal transduction pathway.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kuwayama
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Viel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Van Haastert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D006152:Cyclic GMP