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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2000, p. 26-33, Vol. 20, No. 1
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Association of Yeast Adenylyl Cyclase with Cyclase-Associated Protein CAP Forms a Second Ras-Binding Site Which Mediates Its Ras-Dependent Activation

Fumi Shima, Tomoyo Okada, Masahiro Kido, Hiroyoshi Sen, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Masako Tamada, Chang-Deng Hu, Yuriko Yamawaki-Kataoka, Ken-ichi Kariya, and Tohru Kataoka*

Department of Physiology II, Kobe University School of Medicine, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan

Received 11 August 1999/Returned for modification 9 September 1999/Accepted 1 October 1999

Posttranslational modification, in particular farnesylation, of Ras is crucial for activation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae adenylyl cyclase (CYR1). Based on the previous observation that association of CYR1 with cyclase-associated protein (CAP) is essential for its activation by posttranslationally modified Ras, we postulated that the associated CAP might contribute to the formation of a Ras-binding site of CYR1, which mediates CYR1 activation, other than the primary Ras-binding site, the leucine-rich repeat domain. Here, we observed a posttranslational modification-dependent association of Ras with a complex between CAP and CYR1 C-terminal region. When CAP mutants defective in Ras signaling but retaining the CYR1-binding activity were isolated by screening of a pool of randomly mutagenized CAP, CYR1 complexed with two of the obtained three mutants failed to be activated efficiently by modified Ras and exhibited a severely impaired ability to bind Ras, providing a genetic evidence for the importance of the physical association with Ras at the second Ras-binding site. On the other hand, CYR1, complexed with the other CAP mutant, failed to be activated by Ras but exhibited a greatly enhanced binding to Ras. Conversely, a Ras mutant E31K, which exhibits a greatly enhanced binding to the CYR1-CAP complex, failed to activate CYR1 efficiently. Thus, the strength of interaction at the second Ras-binding site appears to be a critical determinant of CYR1 regulation by Ras: too-weak and too-strong interactions are both detrimental to CYR1 activation. These results, taken together with those obtained with mammalian Raf, suggest the importance of the second Ras-binding site in effector regulation.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Physiology II, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. Phone: 81-78-382-5380. Fax: 81-78-382-5399. E-mail: kataoka{at}kobe-u.ac.jp.


Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2000, p. 26-33, Vol. 20, No. 1
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