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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 47, Pages 46506-46515Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M308432200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 55316, GM 59167, R01 GM059167, R01 GM055316] Funding Source: Medline
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Cellular responses to hormones and neurotransmitters are necessarily transient. The mating pheromone signal in yeast is typical. Signal initiation requires cell surface receptors, a G protein heterotrimer, and downstream effectors. Signal inactivation requires Sst2, a regulator of G protein signaling ( RGS) protein that accelerates GTPase activity. We conducted a quantitative analysis of RGS and G protein expression and devised computational models that describe their activity in vivo. These results indicated that pheromone- dependent transcriptional induction of the RGS protein constitutes a negative feedback loop that leads to desensitization. Modeling also suggested the presence of a positive feedback loop leading to resensitization of the pathway. In confirmation of the model, we found that the RGS protein is ubiquitinated and degraded in response to pheromone stimulation. We identified and quantitated these positive and negative feedback loops, which account for the transient response to external signals observed in vivo.
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