RasC is required for optimal activation of adenylyl cyclase and Akt/PKB during aggregation

AUTOR(ES)

Lim, Chinten James

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

Disruption of Dictyostelium rasC, encoding a Ras subfamily protein, generated cells incapable of aggregation. While rasC expression is enriched in a cell type-specific manner during post-aggregative development, the defect in rasC– cells is restricted to aggregation and fully corrected by application of exogenous cAMP pulses. cAMP is not produced in rasC– cells stimulated by 2′-deoxy-cAMP, but is produced in response to GTPγS in cell lysates, indicating that G-protein-coupled cAMP receptor activation of adenylyl cyclase is regulated by RasC. However, cAMP-induced ERK2 phosphorylation is unaffected in rasC– cells, indicating that RasC is not an upstream activator of the mitogen-activated protein kinase required for cAMP relay. rasC– cells also exhibit reduced chemotaxis to cAMP during early development and delayed response to periodic cAMP stimuli produced by wild-type cells in chimeric mixtures. Furthermore, cAMP-induced Akt/PKB phosphorylation through a phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-dependent pathway is dramatically reduced in rasC– cells, suggesting that G-protein-coupled serpentine receptor activation of PI3K is regulated by RasC. Cells lacking the RasGEF, AleA, exhibit similar defects as rasC– cells, suggesting that AleA may activate RasC.

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