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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 14, Pages 10168-10174Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.14.10168
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The serine/threonine kinase Rho-kinase was recently identified as a downstream effector of the small GTPase Rho, mediating effects of Rho on the actin cytoskeleton. Also phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P-2) has been implicated in the regulation of actin polymerization. As the synthesis of PI(4,5)P-2 has been suggested to be affected by Rho proteins, me investigated whether Rho-kinase is involved in the control of PI(4,5)P-2 levels. Overexpression of RhoA in HEK-293 cells increased phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) 5-kinase activity and concomitantly enhanced cellular PI(4,5)P-2 levels, whereas overexpression of the Rho-inactivating C3 transferase decreased both PI4P B-kinase activity and PI(4,5)P-2 levels. These effects of RhoA could be mimicked by overexpression of wild-type Rho-kinase and of the constitutively active catalytic domain of Rho-kinase, Rho-kinase-CAT. In contrast, a kinase-deficient mutant of Rho-kinase had no effect on PI4P 5-kinase activity. Importantly, the increase in PI4P 5-kinase activity and PI(4,5)P-2 levels by wild-type Rho-kinase, but not by Rho-kinase CAT, was completely prevented by coexpression of C3 transferase, indicating that the effect of Rho-kinase was under the control of endogenous Rho. In cell lysates, addition of recombinant RhoA and Rho-kinase-CAT stimulated PI4P B-kinase activity. Finally, the increase in PI(4,5)P-2 levels induced by both Rho-kinase-CAT and RhoA was reversed by the Rho-kinase inhibitor HA-1077. Our data suggest that Rho-kinase is involved in the Rho-controlled synthesis of PI(4,5)P-2 by PI4P S-kinase.
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