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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00333-17
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ROP; Rac; detergent-resistant membrane; palmitoylation; prenylation; Arabidopsis; S-acylation; lipid rafts
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ROPs or RACs are plant Rho-related GTPases implicated in the regulation of a multitude of signaling pathways that function at the plasma membrane via posttranslational lipid modifications. The relationships between ROP activation status and membrane localization has not been established. Here, we show that endogenous ROPs, as well as a transgenic His6-green fluorescent protein (GFP)-Arabidopsis thaliana ROP6 (AtROP6) fusion protein, were partitioned between Triton X-100-soluble and -insoluble membranes. In contrast, the His(6)-GFP-Atrop6(CA) activated mutant accumulated exclusively in detergent-resistant membranes. GDP induced accumulation of ROPs in Triton-soluble membranes, whereas GTP gamma S induced accumulation of ROPs in detergent-resistant membranes. Recombinant wild-type and constitutively active AtROP6 proteins were purified from Arabidopsis plants, and in turn, their lipids were cleaved and analyzed by gas chromatography-coupled mass spectrometry. In Tritonsoluble membranes, the wild-type AtROP6 was only prenylated, primarily by geranylgeranyl. The activated AtROP6 that accumulated in detergent-resistant membranes was modified by prenyl and acyl lipids, identified as palmitic and stearic acids. Consistently, activated His(6)-GFP-Atrop6(CA)mS(156), in which C156 was mutated into serine, accumulated in Triton-soluble membranes. These findings show that upon GTP binding and activation, AtROP6, and possibly other ROPs, are transiently S-acylated, inducing their partitioning into detergent-resistant membranes.
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