title: Whither goest the RGS proteins?
abstract: Studies of the desensitization of G protein-coupled signal transduction have led to the discovery of a family of guanosine triphosphatase-activating proteins (GAPs) for heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunits - the "regulator of G protein signaling" or RGS proteins. In considering both documented and potential functions of several RGS protein family members with demonstrable multidomain compositions (p115RhoGEF, PDZRhoGEF, Axin, Axil/Conductin, D-AKAP2, the G protein-coupled receptor kinases [GRKs], the DEP/GGL/RGS subfamily [RGS6, RGS7, RGS9, RGS11], and RGS12), this review explores the shift in our appreciation of the RGS proteins from unidimensional desensitizing agents to multifocal signal transduction regulators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7365, USA.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Siderovski
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strockbine
authors.forename: C I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Behe
mesh_terms: D054758:A Kinase Anchor Proteins; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D060466:Axin Protein; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D011506:Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D020710:RGS Proteins / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction; D020741:rho GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D054758:A Kinase Anchor Proteins; C484639:AKAP10 protein, human; C491761:AXIN2 protein, human; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D060466:Axin Protein; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D020710:RGS Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D020741:rho GTP-Binding Proteins