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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 23, Pages 21099-21104Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M301418200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM65533, GM57391, GM29536, GM62299] Funding Source: Medline
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Increasing evidence links the activation of Rho family GTPases to the stimulation of lipid hydrolysis catalyzed by phospholipase C ( PLC)-beta isozymes. To better define this relationship, members of a library of recombinant Rho GTPases were screened for their capacity to directly engage various purified PLC-beta isozymes. Of the 17 tested members of the Rho family, only the active isoforms of Rac (Rac1, Rac2, and Rac3) both stimulate PLC-beta activity in vivo and bind PLC-beta(2) and PLC-beta(3), but not PLC-beta(1), in vitro. Furthermore, the recognition site for Rac GTPases was localized to the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of PLC-beta(2), and this PH domain is fully sufficient to selectively interact with the active versions of the Rac GTPases, but not with other similar Rho GTPases. Together, these findings present a quantitative evaluation of the direct interactions between Rac GTPases and PLC-beta isozymes and define a novel role for the PH domain of PLC-beta(2) as a putative effector site for Rac GTPases.
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