Evidence for the existence of a GTP-dependent factor in hepatic cytosol that stimulates cyclic AMP binding: possible role in the modulation of cyclic AMP action.
GTP, in physiologic concentration (10(-4) mol/L), enhances cAMP binding to an Mr 57,000 binding protein (BP) in hepatic cytosol, which probably is the phosphorylated receptor subunit of protein kinase II ( PK II). When we attempted to separate PK II from other hepatic cytosol proteins by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, we observed that GTP caused little stimulation of [3H]cAMP binding in an eluate fraction (110 to 170 mmol/L KCI), which was rich in PK II but did stimulate cAMP binding to the 210 to 325 mmol/L KCI fraction, which also contains PK II. This suggested that the latter fraction might contain a cofactor necessary for GTP stimulation of cAMP binding, which was lacking in the 110 to 170 mmol/L KCI fraction. Cyclic AMP BP in the 210 to 325 mmol/L fraction was removed by absorption onto cAMP agarose in the presence of 325 mmol/L KCI. When an aliquot of the BP-poor fraction, containing the putative cofactor, was added to the 110 to 170 mmol/L fraction containing PK II, the addition of 10(-4) mol/L GTP to the mixture increased [3H]cAMP binding by more than 80%. Cofactor activity could be extracted from the 210 to 325 mmol/L eluate by adsorption onto cAMP agarose in the presence of 10 mmol/L K phosphate, and eluted with 100 mmol/L KCI, suggesting that the cofactor may bind to the cAMP BP under appropriate circumstances. Addition of this eluted cofactor fraction to the 110 to 170 mmol/L fraction in the presence of 10(-4) mol/L GTP, increased the specific binding of [3H] cAMP more than twofold. Pretreatment of the cofactor fraction with trypsin eliminated this effect.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[1]References
- Evidence for the existence of a GTP-dependent factor in hepatic cytosol that stimulates cyclic AMP binding: possible role in the modulation of cyclic AMP action. Rosenberg, E.M., Goodman, A.D., Lipinski, T.L. Metab. Clin. Exp. (1989) [Pubmed]
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