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Curr Biol

Title:		Functional binding between Gbeta and the LIM domain of Ste5 is required to activate the MEKK Ste11
Author(s):		Feng Y; Song LY; Kincaid E; Mahanty SK; Elion EA;
Address:		"Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA"
Journal Title:		Curr Biol
Year:		1998
Volume:		8
Issue:		5
Page Number:		267 - 278
DOI:		10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70108-3
ISSN/ISBN:		0960-9822 (Print) 0960-9822 (Linking)
Abstract:		"BACKGROUND: In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the pheromones that induce haploid cells of opposite cell types to mate activate the Gbeta and Ggamma subunits of a heterotrimeric G protein. These subunits signal through the PAK kinase Ste20 to activate a mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade comprising the MEKK Ste11, the MEK Ste7 and two MAP kinases, Fus3 and Kss1. The pathway requires Ste5, a scaffold protein that tethers the MAP kinase cascade enzymes into a high molecular weight complex. Ste5 is thought to associate with Gbeta in a pheromone-independent manner, but it is not known if this interaction affects signaling. RESULTS: A ste5C180A mutant - which expresses Ste5 disrupted in the LIM domain, a putative metal-binding motif that has been proposed to be essential for Ste5 oligomerization - could not transmit the pheromone signal from Gbeta through Ste20 to Ste11. The Ste5C180A protein was impaired in binding Gbeta, although it could oligomerize, bind Ste11, Ste7 and Fus3, facilitate the basal activation of Ste11, and relay the Ste11 signal to MAP kinases. Ste5 bound to Gbeta in a pheromone-dependent manner and preferentially associated with a phosphorylated form of Gbeta in wild-type and ste20Delta, but not in ste5C180A, strains. CONCLUSIONS: Pheromone induces binding of Gbeta to Ste5 through its LIM domain. This binding is essential for activation of Ste11 and is distinct from the ability of Ste5 to oligomerize or to serve as a scaffold and relay the signal from Ste11 to the MAP kinases. Pheromone also induces Ste5-dependent phosphorylation of Gbeta"
Keywords:		"*Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing Alanine/genetics/metabolism Binding Sites Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/*metabolism *Carrier Proteins Enzyme Activation Fungal Proteins/genetics/*metabolism GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism MAP Kinase K;"
Notes:		"MedlineFeng, Y Song, L Y Kincaid, E Mahanty, S K Elion, E A eng R01GM46962/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. England 1998/04/16 Curr Biol. 1998 Feb 26; 8(5):267-78. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70108-3"