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Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi.

ABSTRACT: Metazoan arrestins bind to seven-transmembrane (7TM) receptors to regulate function. Aspergillus nidulans PalF, a protein involved in the fungal ambient pH signaling pathway, contains arrestin N-terminal and C-terminal domains and binds strongly to two different regions within the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of the 7TM, putative pH sensor PalH. Upon exposure to alkaline ambient pH, PalF is phosphorylated and, like mammalian beta-arrestins, ubiquitinated in a signal-dependent and 7TM protein-dependent manner. Substitution in PalF of a highly conserved arrestin N-terminal domain Ser residue prevents PalF-PalH interaction and pH signaling in vivo. Thus, PalF is the first experimentally documented fungal arrestin-related protein, dispelling the notion that arrestins are restricted to animal proteomes. Epistasis analyses demonstrate that PalF posttranslational modification is partially dependent on the 4TM protein PalI but independent of the remaining pH signal transduction pathway proteins PalA, PalB, and PalC, yielding experimental evidence bearing on the order of participation of the six components of the pH signal transduction pathway. Our data strongly implicate PalH as an ambient pH sensor, possibly with the cooperation of PalI.

SUBMITTER: Herranz S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1189327 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi.

Herranz Silvia S Rodríguez José M JM Bussink Henk-Jan HJ Sánchez-Ferrero Juan C JC Arst Herbert N HN Peñalva Miguel A MA Vincent Olivier O

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050811 34

Metazoan arrestins bind to seven-transmembrane (7TM) receptors to regulate function. Aspergillus nidulans PalF, a protein involved in the fungal ambient pH signaling pathway, contains arrestin N-terminal and C-terminal domains and binds strongly to two different regions within the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of the 7TM, putative pH sensor PalH. Upon exposure to alkaline ambient pH, PalF is phosphorylated and, like mammalian beta-arrestins, ubiquitinated in a signal-dependent and 7TM protein-depe ...[more]

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