title: Activation of phospholipase C beta 4 by heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins.
abstract: Transient transfection assays were used to determine how the activity of phospholipase C beta 4, which is preferentially expressed in retina, was regulated. An expression vector carrying the full-length cDNA corresponding to phospholipase C beta 4 was constructed and co-transfected into COS-7 cells together with cDNA encoding the alpha subunits of the Gq class and various beta and gamma subunits corresponding to the heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins. We found that all the alpha subunits of the Gq class, including G alpha q, G alpha 11, G alpha 14, G alpha 15, and G alpha 16 could activate PLC beta 4 and that none of the G beta gamma subunits that we tested including G beta 1 gamma 1, G beta 1 gamma 2, G beta 1 gamma 3, or G beta 2 gamma 2 activated phospholipase C beta 4. In control experiments, cotransfection with cDNA encoding the alpha subunit of transducin or Gi2 gave no activation of PLC beta 4. These results indicate that phospholipase C beta 4 is activated by G alpha subunits that are members of the Gq class, and, like the phospholipase C beta 1 isoform, it is refractory to activation in the transfection assay by many of the combinations of beta and gamma subunits found in the heterotrimeric G-proteins.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Simon
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002460:Cell Line; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014162:Transfection; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D007527:Isoenzymes; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins