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Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2003, p. 3847-3858, Vol. 23, No. 11
0270-7306/03/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.11.3847-3858.2003
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and Richard D. Ye*
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60612
Received 14 June 2002/ Returned for modification 2 August 2002/ Accepted 14 March 2003
The biological functions of heterotrimeric G proteins and small GTPases are modulated by both extracellular stimuli and intracellular regulatory proteins. Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae two-hybrid screening, we identified tetratricopeptide repeat 1 (TPR1), a 292-amino-acid protein with three TPR motifs, as a G
16-binding protein. The interaction was confirmed both in vitro and in transfected mammalian cells, where TPR1 also binds to several other G
proteins. TPR1 was found to interact with Ha-Ras preferentially in its active form. Overexpression of TPR1 promotes accumulation of active Ras. TPR1 was found to compete with the Ras-binding domain (RBD) of Raf-1 for binding to the active Ras, suggesting that it may also compete with Ras GTPase-activating protein, thus contributing to the accumulation of GTP-bound Ras. Expression of G
16 strongly enhances the interaction between TPR1 and Ras. Removal of the TPR1 N-terminal 112 residues abolishes potentiation by G
16 while maintaining the interaction with G
16 and the ability to discriminate active Ras from wild-type Ras. We have also observed that LGN, a G
i-interacting protein with seven TPR motifs, binds Ha-Ras. Thus, TPR1 is a novel adaptor protein for Ras and selected G
proteins that may be involved in protein-protein interaction relating to G-protein signaling.
Present address: Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.
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