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Isolation of a second yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene (GPA2) coding for guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein: studies on its structure and possible functions.

In a previous paper, we demonstrated that a gene coding for a protein homologous to the alpha subunit of mammalian guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory (G) proteins occurs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The gene, designated GPA1, encodes a protein (GP1 alpha) of 472 amino acids with a calculated Mr of 54,075. Here we report the isolation of another G-protein-homologous gene, GPA2, which encodes an amino acid sequence of 449 amino acid residues with a Mr of 50,516. The predicted primary structure of the GPA2-encoded protein (GP2 alpha) is homologous to mammalian G proteins [inhibitory and stimulatory G proteins (Gi and Gs, respectively), a G protein of unknown function (Go), and transducins (Gt)] as well as yeast GP1 alpha. When aligned with the alpha subunit of Gi (Gi alpha) to obtain maximal homology, GP2 alpha was found to contain a stretch of 83 additional amino acid residues near the NH2 terminus. The gene was mapped in chromosome V, close to the centromere. Haploid cells carrying a disrupted GPA2 gene are viable. Cells carrying a high copy number of plasmid GPA2 (YEpGPA2) had markedly elevated levels of cAMP and could suppress a temperature-sensitive mutation of RAS2. These results suggest that GPA2 may be involved in the regulation of cAMP levels in S. cerevisiae.[1]

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  1. Isolation of a second yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene (GPA2) coding for guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein: studies on its structure and possible functions. Nakafuku, M., Obara, T., Kaibuchi, K., Miyajima, I., Miyajima, A., Itoh, H., Nakamura, S., Arai, K., Matsumoto, K., Kaziro, Y. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1988) [Pubmed]
 
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