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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 25, Pages 10183-10188Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812105106
Keywords
cyclin B1; early arrest; embryonic development; G protein-coupled receptor kinase; PTCH1
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- Ministry of Science and Technology [2005CB522406, 2009CB522006]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [30830042, 30821002]
- Shanghai Municipal Commission for Education [B119]
- National Science and Technology Major Project for Drug Discovery
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G protein-coupled receptor ( GPCR) kinases (GRKs) are known as a family of serine/threonine kinases that function as key regulators of GPCRs, as well as other types of receptors. Extensive studies of GRKs at the cellular and organismal levels have led to a consensus that GRK-catalyzed phosphorylation of receptors is the primary mechanism underlying their physiological functions. Here, we report that down-regulation of GRK2 in zebrafish embryos with GRK2 morpholino results in developmental early arrest and, interestingly, that this arrest can be rescued by exogenous expression of a GRK2 kinase-dead mutant, K220R. A physical interaction between GRK2 and cyclin B1 regulator patched homolog 1 (PTCH1), stimulated by Hedgehog (Hh), rather than GRK2-mediated phosphorylation of downstream targets, appears as the underlying mechanism. We identify residues 262-379 as the PTCH1-binding region ( BP). Interaction of GRK2, K220R, and BP with PTCH1 reduces the association of PTCH1 with cyclin B1 and disrupts PTCH1-mediated inhibition of cyclin B1 nuclear translocation, whereas the PTCH1-binding deficient GRK2 mutant (Delta 312-379) does not. Cell cycle and cell proliferation assays show that overexpressing PTCH1 remarkably inhibited cell growth and this effect could be attenuated by GRK2, K220R, or BP, but not Delta 312-379. In vivo studies show that BP, as well as the nuclear- localizing cyclin B1 mutant, is effective in rescuing the early arrest phenotype in GRK2 knockdown embryos, but Delta 312-379 is not. Our data thus reveal a novel kinase activity-independent function for GRK and establish a role for GRK2 as a cell-cycle regulator during early embryonic development.
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